- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who separates macaroni scraps recovered from presses and packaging areas, according to type and condition, for disposal, remilling, or for sale as hog or poultry feed. Respnsibilities include:
* Collects scraps dropped from processing and packaging equipment and sorts scrap into barrels for reprocessing, according to type of scrap (wet or dry), and dirt content.
* Removes trimmings from batch drier and dumps trimmings into barrels designated for remilling.
* Moves filled barrels to designated areas and replaces empty barrels in processing departments.
* Records amount and type of scrap recovered and its disposition.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who obtains and grinds samples of tobacco leaves used in making moisture tests. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls leaves from hands of tobacco at discharge end of redrying machine or extracts sample of tobacco strips (stems removed) from hogsheads or shipping cartons, using electric auger.
* Feeds sample into grinder.
* Pours ground tobacco into container, places container in tumbler, starts tumbler to mix ground sample, and labels container showing date, machine, hogshead number, grade, and time collected.
* May only extract and label samples for grinding and be designated Sample Driller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that grades fruit according to size. Respnsibilities include:
* Changes chains and other driving gear according to type of fruit.
* Directs workers engaged in loading of elevator belt and removal of graded fruit.
* Cleans and lubricates chains, bearings, and machine gears, using rags and grease gun.
* Repairs, replaces, and adjusts malfunctioning parts of machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends beet washing equipment and elevators that clean sugar beets preparatory to slicing. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts elevators and washing equipment, and turns valves to regulate water flow through washing vat.
* Signals flumer I to adjust flow of beets in flume, using telephone.
* Turns valves to drain water from washing vat.
* Cleans debris from vat, using water hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment, such as elevators, drags, and scrolls, that conveys wet sugar to granulator scrolls and dry sugar to separator screens. Respnsibilities include:
* Signals granulator operator with bell signal to stop granulator when content of wet-sugar bins is low or dry-sugar bins are congested.
* Washes equipment with hose and directs sweetwater (wash water containing sugar) into recovery system.
* Shuts off flow of sugar to each bin periodically to prevent caking and hardening of sugar in bins and conveying equipment.
* Refills bin after emptying.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that compress and extrude bulk yeast into continuous bars, cut bars into cakes of specified size, and wrap and heat-seal cakes. Respnsibilities include:
* Signals worker to fill hopper of extruder with yeast.
* Positions and threads roll of paper, plastic film, or foil through roller guide of wrapping mechanism, and starts machines.
* Removes yeast cakes from conveyor emerging from cutter and feeds cakes into wrapping machine, discarding cracked or malformed cakes.
* Observes cutting and wrapping operation to detect jamming or twisted wrapping.
* Packs wrapped yeast cakes in cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that compress and extrude bulk yeast into continuous bars, cut bars into cakes of specified size, and wrap and heat-seal cakes. Respnsibilities include:
* Signals worker to fill hopper of extruder with yeast.
* Positions and threads roll of paper, plastic film, or foil through roller guide of wrapping mechanism, and starts machines.
* Removes yeast cakes from conveyor emerging from cutter and feeds cakes into wrapping machine, discarding cracked or malformed cakes.
* Observes cutting and wrapping operation to detect jamming or twisted wrapping.
* Packs wrapped yeast cakes in cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears and examines cigarette filter plugs (tips) discharged from cigarette filter-making machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Picks up double handful of plugs and examines them for defects in cutting, gluing, size, and filling.
* Inspects both ends of plugs and places plugs in tray.
* Removes defective plugs from tray.
* Notifies cigarette-filter-making-machine operator of defective product.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears and examines cigarette filter plugs (tips) discharged from cigarette filter-making machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Picks up double handful of plugs and examines them for defects in cutting, gluing, size, and filling.
* Inspects both ends of plugs and places plugs in tray.
* Removes defective plugs from tray.
* Notifies cigarette-filter-making-machine operator of defective product.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who off bears and examines cigarettes discharged from cigarette-making machine and places them in cigarette tray preparatory to packaging. Respnsibilities include:
* Picks up double handful of cigarettes from conveyor and observes cigarettes to detect defective gluing, filling, and printing of brand name.
* Places cigarettes in tray and pushes cigarettes against back of tray to even edges, using hand or paddle.
* Places defective cigarettes in separate container.
* Periodically inserts 20 cigarettes in tray gauge to verify length, circumference, and location of brand name.
* Notifies cigarette-filter-making-machine operator of machine malfunction.
Industry:Professional careers
