- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends steam-heated drying machine that removes moisture from cooked potatoes preparatory to grinding into flour. Respnsibilities include:
* Rakes uniform coating of cooked potato mash deposited from auger-type conveyor over heated revolving cylinder to remove moisture.
* May tend drying equipment that recovers starch byproduct from gluten wash.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that dehydrate nuts. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts heater and sets thermostat to control air temperature.
* Starts blower system that forces warm air through nuts to dry them, improve storage qualities, and prepare them for further processing.
* Starts conveyor to move nuts into machine for dehydration.
* Tests dryness of nuts by feeling or by using moisture indicator.
* Attaches sack to discharge end of machine to catch dried nuts, or starts conveyor system that transfers dried nuts to storage bin.
* May sew sack, using needle and twine.
* May be designated according to kind of nut dehydrated as Walnut-Dehydrator Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends rotary drier that removes moisture from fish scrap preparatory to grinding scrap into meal. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts drier and conveyors that feed fish scrap into drier and move dried material to storage area.
* Observes gauges and turns valves to regulate steam pressure and to keep temperature within prescribed range.
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A professional who tends battery of char-kilns that revivify char used in filtration of liquor. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts fires and regulates gas and air pressure in kilns and flow of water through heat exchanges to control temperature.
* Observes inside of kiln through peep-hole to detect wall defects and char leakages.
* Examines and adjusts equipment, such as char-draw mechanisms, emergency stop alarms, remote control switches, and water-sprays on char-conveyors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends freeze tunnel to quick-freeze food products. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes switches to start and control speed of conveyorized screen that conveys food product through tunnel that flash freezes food as it passes.
* Turns valves to adjust temperature in tunnel and monitors temperature and pressure gauges to ensure conformance to company specifications.
* Patrols tunnel to observe progress of vegetables to ensure freezing and to detect machinery malfunctions.
* Scrapes conveyor to remove excess ice or frost from conveyor and to break vegetables loose from conveyor to prevent accumulation, using hands and handtools.
* Breaks excess ice from tunnel outlet to facilitate conveyorized frozen food off bearing.
* Notifies supervisor of machinery malfunctions.
* May tend machine that deposits breading onto food products.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steam or gas-fired drum to dry grain or yeast. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts dryer, turns steam valve, or lights gas burner and observes thermometers and pressure gauges to heat dryer to operating temperatures.
* Opens valve or starts screw conveyor and vacuum pump to convey wet grain through heated drum and into discharge hopper.
* Observes feeder gauge and turns valve or moves rheostat lever to adjust flow of yeast or grain to capacity of dryer.
* Feels dried grain or yeast to judge moisture content or measures with moisture meter.
* Adjusts valves to vary heat of dryer and grain and yeast flow to change moisture content to specifications.
* When drying grain, attaches cloth bag to discharge hopper.
* Weighs filled bag and seams top of bag, using portable sewing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steam or gas-fired drum to dry grain or yeast. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts dryer, turns steam valve, or lights gas burner and observes thermometers and pressure gauges to heat dryer to operating temperatures.
* Opens valve or starts screw conveyor and vacuum pump to convey wet grain through heated drum and into discharge hopper.
* Observes feeder gauge and turns valve or moves rheostat lever to adjust flow of yeast or grain to capacity of dryer.
* Feels dried grain or yeast to judge moisture content or measures with moisture meter.
* Adjusts valves to vary heat of dryer and grain and yeast flow to change moisture content to specifications.
* When drying grain, attaches cloth bag to discharge hopper.
* Weighs filled bag and seams top of bag, using portable sewing machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends grain-drying machines that reduce moisture content of grain. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews data concerning moisture content of grain to be dried.
* Moves levers to regulate gate on feed hopper and flow of grain through drier.
* Observes temperature recorders and turns valves to regulate flow of steam pressure or gas to heat driers to specified temperature.
* May observe conveyors transferring grain from storage bin and control flow of grain into feed hopper.
* May test grain to ensure moisture content standards are being met, using moisture meter or standard oil-distillation test.
* May be designated according to grain dried as Rice-Drier Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that soak, form, and bake whole grains of wheat or rice into wafers. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps sacks of grain into soaking tank.
* Turns valve to regulate flow of water into tank, and starts tank revolving.
* Turns off water after specified soaking period and starts air blower to dry grain.
* Pushes lever to empty tank, and starts screw conveyor that moves grain into feed hopper of baking machine.
* Lights gas burners to heat crushing and baking rollers.
* Starts machine that flattens and bakes grains into solid sheets.
* Turns valve to adjust temperature of rollers depending on color and texture of extruded sheet of wafers.
* Fills salting hopper, using hand scoop.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends refrigerating equipment that freezes water into ice, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to fill containers with specified amounts of water, and lowers containers into freezing tanks, using hoist.
* Inserts air bubbler into containers and starts agitator in freezing tank to ensure uniform freezing.
* Siphons or pumps water containing foreign matter from centers of partially frozen ice blocks, using suction pump, and refills container with fresh water.
* Flushes surfaces of ice blocks with hose.
* Removes container from tank, using hoist, and immerses it in warm water or places it in steam bath to free ice from container sides.
* Positions cans on dumping pivot and pushes buttons to tilt pivot and dump ice onto conveyor or platform.
* Adds prescribed amounts of materials into mixing vats and starts agitator to mix brine solution for freezing tanks.
* May turn valves to regulate compressors and condensers.
* When performing specific duty, may be known as Can Filler; Dumper; Ice Puller.
Industry:Professional careers
