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Career Details :: Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
Description
Operate or tend equipment, such as cooling and freezing units, refrigerators, batch freezers, and freezing tunnels, to cool or freeze products, food, blood plasma, and chemicals.
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
- Stirs material with spoon or paddle to mix ingredients or allow even cooling and prevent coagulation.
- Cleans, maintains, and repairs machines.
- Flushes lines with solutions or steam to clean and sterilize equipment.
- Monitors pressure gauges, flowmeters, thermometers, or product and adjusts controls to maintain specified conditions.
- Starts equipment to blend contents or mix with air to prevent sticking to vat.
- Scrapes, dislodges, or breaks excess frost or ice from equipment.
- Inserts forming fixture and starts machine that cuts frozen product into measured portions or specified shapes.
- Starts pumps, agitators, and conveyors, and turns valves to admit or transfer product, refrigerant, or mix.
- Loads and positions wrapping paper, sticks, bags, or cartons into dispensing machines, and removes jammed sticks, using pliers or picks.
- Records temperatures, amount of materials processed, or test results on report form.
- Assembles or attaches pipes, fittings, or valves, using hand tools.
- Places or positions containers into equipment and removes container after cooling or freezing process.
- Positions molds on conveyor, and measures and adjusts level of fill, using depth gauge.
- Adjusts machine or freezer speed and air intake to obtain desired consistency and amount of product.
- Draws sample of product and tests for specific gravity, acidity, or sugar content, using hydrometer, pH meter, or refractometer.
- Measures or weighs specified amounts of ingredients or material, and adds into tanks, vats, or equipment.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Repairing & Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Degree of Automation
- Indoors
- Consequence of Error
- Frustrating Circumstances
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
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