Career Details :: Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Description
Set up, operate, or tend continuous flow or vat-type equipment; filter presses; shaker screens; centrifuges; condenser tubes; precipitating, fermenting, or evaporating tanks; scrubbing towers; or batch stills. These machines extract, sort, or separate liquids, gases, or solids from other materials to recover a refined product. Includes dairy processing equipment operators.
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
- Tests samples to determine viscosity, acidity, specific gravity, or degree of concentration, using test equipment, such as viscometer, pH meter, and hydrometer.
- Inspects machines and equipment for hazards, operating efficiency, mechanical malfunctions, wear, and leaks.
- Starts agitators, shakers, conveyors, pumps, or centrifuge machines, turns valves, or moves controls to admit, drain, filter, mix, or transfer materials.
- Removes clogs, defects, and impurities from machines, tanks, conveyors, screen, or other processing equipment.
- Measures or weighs materials to be refined, mixed, transferred, stored, or otherwise processed.
- Maintains log of instrument readings, test results, and shift production.
- Communicates or signals processing instructions to other workers.
- Removes full bags or containers from discharge outlets and replaces them with empty ones.
- Examines samples visually or by hand to verify quality, such as clarity, cleanliness, consistency, dryness, and texture.
- Lubricates, connects, installs, replaces, or makes minor adjustments or repairs to hoses, pumps, filters, or screens to maintain processing equipment, using hand tools.
- Sets or adjusts machine controls to regulate conditions, such as material flow, temperature, and pressure, according to specified operating procedures.
- Collects samples of material or product for laboratory analysis.
- Dumps, pours, or loads specified amounts of refined or unrefined materials into equipment or containers for further processing or storage.
- Cleans tanks, screens, inflow pipes, and other processing equipment, using hoses, brushes, scrappers, or chemical solutions.
- Monitors material flow and control instruments, such as gauges, indicators, and meters, to ensure optimal processing conditions and results.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
- Consequence of Error
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
Related Majors
| Major | Add to XapPack |
|---|---|
| Dairy/Livestock/Poultry Production Systems/Management |  [ add ] |
| Food/Agribusiness Management | [ add ] |
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