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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who conveys lump chewing gum from mixer and dumps gum into hopper of machine that rolls and scores gum sheets. Respnsibilities include: * Positions cart under door of mixer. * Sprinkles sugar by hand over interior surfaces of cart to prevent gum from sticking. * Tilts mixing machine and opens door. * Pulls quantity of gum from mixer, cuts it with knife, and drops gum into cart. * Pushes cart into position over hopper of scoring machine. * Tilts rear of cart to dump gum into hopper, using electric hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs hops used in brewing beer. Respnsibilities include: * Selects bale of prescribed hops from storage area in hop room and transports bale to work area, using handtruck. * Opens burlap wrapping of bale, using knife. * Breaks bale into chunks and throws chunks into basket on platform scale. * Fills basket to prescribed number of pounds. * Wheels filled baskets to brew kettles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks concerned with preparing and packaging Mexican ready-to-serve or frozen foods. Respnsibilities include: * Places portions of cooked foods on tortilla. * Rolls or folds tortilla over seasoned ground meat, bean, or cheese mixture to form Mexican food item. * May garnish food with cheese, peppers, olives, and other condiments. * May wrap tortilla around mixture to form characteristic shape and be known as Burrito Maker. * May fill taco shell with meat and be known as Taco Maker. * May encase cheese or meat mixture in tortilla and be known as Enchilada Maker. * May spoon sauce and meat mixture onto tortilla shaped cornmeal dough and wrap product in corn husk or paper and be known as Tamale Maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compresses lumps of tobacco into plugs of chewing tobacco in hand shapes, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include: * Greases sinkers to prevent lumps from sticking, using cloth saturated with liquid paraffin or petrolatum. * Places sinkers and frames into shape boxes and fills frame cells with specified number of lumps. * Positions filled shape box under ram of hydraulic press and turns valve to lower ram onto shapes that compress lumps into plugs. * Removes shape boxes from press and sinkers and frames from shape box. * Knocks plugs from frame cells, using rake or metal bar. * Stacks plugs on table for further processing. * Cleans tin plates in washing machine or with cloth and water.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compresses lumps of tobacco into plugs of chewing tobacco in hand shapes, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include: * Greases sinkers to prevent lumps from sticking, using cloth saturated with liquid paraffin or petrolatum. * Places sinkers and frames into shape boxes and fills frame cells with specified number of lumps. * Positions filled shape box under ram of hydraulic press and turns valve to lower ram onto shapes that compress lumps into plugs. * Removes shape boxes from press and sinkers and frames from shape box. * Knocks plugs from frame cells, using rake or metal bar. * Stacks plugs on table for further processing. * Cleans tin plates in washing machine or with cloth and water.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs and mixes seasonings, such as salt, pepper, and sage, according to formula, for use in making sausage. Respnsibilities include: * Mixes ingredients by hand or in machine. * Dumps mixture into containers and attaches tags or marks containers with identifying information. * May grind whole peppers in grinding machine. * May cube eggs, pimientos, and pickles, by placing them on cutter screen and lowering press to force them through cutters. * May peel and cut onions, using knife. * May clip one end of meat casings with clipping tool, and stamp date and code on casings and sausage containers, using rubber stamp.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who empties sacks of ingredients, such as cane and beet sugar, into mixing vats preparatory to making table syrups. * Carries containers and materials and cleans vats, using steam hose, as instructed by syrup mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists blending-tank tender by directing filling of holding tanks and performing related duties. Respnsibilities include: * Pulls latch of lid-locking hinge or clips metal band holding lid on barrel of juice concentrate, using clippers, to remove lid from barrel. * Signals industrial-truck operator by hand to guide lifting and positioning of barrel adjacent to opening of holding tank. * Manually holds barrel in contact with tank opening as barrel is tilted to dump juice concentrate into tank. * Sprays inside of barrel to wash remaining concentrate into tank, using hose. * Turns valve of holding tank as directed by blending-tank tender to open flow of concentrate into blending tank and to fill blending tank to specified capacity. * Cleans residue and film from equipment and floors following processing, using waterhose, cleaning solution, brushes, and rags.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who takes food and beverage orders over telephone or intercom system and records order on ticket. Responsibilities include: * Records order and time received on ticket to ensure prompt service, using time-stamping device. * Suggests menu items, and substitutions for items not available, and answers questions regarding food or service. * Distributes order tickets or calls out order to kitchen employees. * May collect charge vouchers and cash for service and keep record of transactions. * May be designated according to type of order handled as Telephone-Order Clerk, Drive-In; Telephone-Order Clerk, Room Service.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of telegraphic-typewriter operators. Responsibilities include: * Assigns duties and monitors sending and receiving of messages. * Directs workers keeping files, such as messages, correspondence, instructions, and reports. * Inspects equipment and orders repairs of machinery. * May operate telegraphic typewriter (telegraphic-typewriter operator). * May transfer operators or regulate work load between stations to ensure even distribution of traffic. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers