- المجال: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends grinding mill that grinds dried flake albumen into granules. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts grinder mill and opens chute gate on machine hopper to direct flake albumen between grinder rolls.
* Fills hopper with flake albumen, using scoop.
* Examines granules and adjusts machine roller settings as required, using handtools, to ensure albumen is ground to specified size.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends screening device (riddle) to separate coarse pieces of tobacco from cut tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts riddle and observes conveyor feeding tobacco into riddle from cutting machine.
* Scrapes off coarse tobacco left on flat screen and returns tobacco to cutting machine.
* Replaces filled boxes of sifted tobacco with empty boxes.
* May brush tobacco from clogged screens.
* May be designated according to type of tobacco processed as Granulated-Tobacco Screener; Shorts Sifter; Tobacco-Scrap Sifter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of machines that mill and brush cleaned rough rice. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines, such as shelling stones, rice hullers, paddy separator, and rice brush.
* Turns feed controls to regulate flow of rice into series of machines that automatically hull rice, separate hulled from unhulled rice, brush dust from hulled rice, and blow off bran.
* Examines rice visually and tactually, and adjusts machines to ensure standard product.
* Inspects machines to ensure efficient milling.
* Lubricates machines and makes minor repairs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that routes rice to milling machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens feed pipes to route rice for each lot to designated milling machines.
* Turns wheels, bolts, and moves levers to adjust grading machines to obtain specified proportions of broken and whole grain rice in lot being milled.
* Performs maintenance on mill machinery.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that separate sugar crystals, according to grain size. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes machine vibrating screens to ascertain that sugar is flowing.
* Cleans screens with brush and regulates vibrations of screens to maintain flow.
* Changes screens by disconnecting sleeves, removing wing nuts, and hoisting cover, using block and tackle.
* Takes sample of screened sugar for laboratory analysis.
* Tightens machine parts loosened by vibration, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that separates shell particles and sand from shellfish meats, by water and air agitation, preparatory to blanching and canning or freezing. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit water and air to separator vat as shelled meats are dumped into it from peeling machine or by another worker.
* Adjusts air volume and operating time according to bulk and cleanliness of meats in vat.
* Moves floating meats to conveyor by hand, or by using wooden paddle.
* Drains vat to remove shells and sand from bottom.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends reels or shakers that separate and remove bran, gluten, or other insolubles from starch suspension. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts reels or shakers.
* Turns valves to admit and regulate flow of liquid suspension to separators.
* Starts conveyor that carries off insolubles separated from suspension.
* Tests specific gravity of liquid starch to ascertain if separation meets standards, using hydrometer.
* Cleans shakers or reels with caustic solution and water hose.
* Replaces worn or broken bearings, springs, and other parts, using handtools.
* May tend driers to dehydrate brans.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends nut-cracking machine that cracks shells of nuts and separates broken shells from nut meat. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and turns handwheels to adjust cylinders or rollers and control flow of nuts into machine.
* Observes cracked nuts emerging from machine to ascertain that they are cracked and separated from shells.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends slicing machine that cuts plugs (cheeses) of tobacco into slice-plug smoking tobacco. Respnsibilities include:
* Arranges plugs in even piles on cutting board.
* Starts machine and tightens setscrew to feed plugs under reciprocating knife.
* Holds cut slices together in form of plugs from which slices are cut, using stick.
* Slides sliced tobacco onto tray.
* Replaces dull knife blade, using wrench.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that automatically slice food products, such as cheese or meat for packaging. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads roll of interleaf paper into machine.
* Turns screws to adjust guides on machine for size of food slab, using wrench.
* Places slab of food on feeder bed.
* Presses levers to clamp chunk to bed and start feeder.
* Turns dials to set number and thickness of slices in each stack.
* Presses switch to start rotating slicer with synchronized devices that cut, count, interleaf, and stack slices of food.
* Weighs stack and turns dial to regulate thickness of slices to achieve prescribed weight.
* Removes and replaces imperfect slice with one from spare pile.
* Places sliced stack on packaging conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
