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Career Details :: Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders
Description
Operate or tend food or tobacco roasting, baking, or drying equipment, including hearth ovens, kiln driers, roasters, char kilns, and vacuum-drying equipment.
Experience
No previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, a person can become a general office clerk even if he/she has never worked in an office before.
Education
These occupations may require a high school diploma or GED certificate. Some may require a formal training course to obtain a license.
Training
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few days to a few months of training. Usually, an experienced worker could show you how to do the job.
Tasks
- Takes sample of product during or after process for laboratory analysis.
- Cleans equipment with steam, hot water, and hose.
- Clears or dislodges blockages in bins, screens, or other equipment, using pole, brush, or mallet.
- Observes temperature, humidity, and pressure gauges, or product, and adjusts controls and turns valves to maintain prescribed operating conditions.
- Observes and listens for machine malfunctions and notifies supervisor when corrective actions fail.
- Sets temperature and time controls, lights ovens or gas burners, and starts equipment, such as conveyors, blowers, driers, or pumps.
- Reads work order to determine quantity and type of product to be baked, dried, or roasted.
- Fills or removes product from trays, carts, hoppers, or equipment, using scoop, peel, or shovel, or by hand.
- Weighs product, using scale hopper or scale conveyor.
- Observes, feels, or tastes products after processing to ensure products conform to standards.
- Tests product for moisture content, using moisture meter.
- Records production data, such as weight and amount of product processed, type of product, and time and temperature of processing.
- Smoothes out product in bin, tray, or conveyor, using rake or shovel.
- Opens valve, discharge gates, or hopper chutes, to load or remove product from oven or equipment.
- Pushes racks or carts to transfer product to storage or for further processing.
- Installs equipment, such as spray unit, cutting blades, or screens, using hand tools.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Indoors
- Consequence of Error
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
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