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Job Description

Operate or tend food or tobacco roasting, baking, or drying equipment, including hearth ovens, kiln driers, roasters, char kilns, and vacuum drying equipment.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-3091.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 30,970.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 20,080 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders”.

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Tasks for “Roasterman”

Push racks or carts to transfer products to storage, cooling stations, or the next stage of processing.
Observe, feel, taste, or otherwise examine products during and after processing to ensure conformance to standards.
Operate or tend equipment that roasts, bakes, dries, or cures food items such as cocoa and coffee beans, grains, nuts, and bakery products.
Clean equipment with steam, hot water, and hoses.
Signal coworkers to synchronize flow of materials.
Read work orders to determine quantities and types of products to be baked, dried, or roasted.
Open valves, gates, or chutes or use shovels to load or remove products from ovens or other equipment.
Take product samples during or after processing for laboratory analyses.
Test products for moisture content, using moisture meters.
Observe temperature, humidity, pressure gauges, and product samples and adjust controls, such as thermostats and valves, to maintain prescribed operating conditions for specific stages.
Install equipment, such as spray units, cutting blades, or screens, using hand tools.
Clear or dislodge blockages in bins, screens, or other equipment, using poles, brushes, or mallets.
Record production data, such as weight and amount of product processed, type of product, and time and temperature of processing.
Observe flow of materials and listen for machine malfunctions, such as jamming or spillage, and notify supervisors if corrective actions fail.
Fill or remove product from trays, carts, hoppers, or equipment, using scoops, peels, or shovels, or by hand.
Start conveyors to move roasted grain to cooling pans and agitate grain with rakes as blowers force air through perforated bottoms of pans.
Smooth out products in bins, pans, trays, or conveyors, using rakes or shovels.
Dump sugar dust from collectors into melting tanks and add water to reclaim sugar lost during processing.
Set temperature and time controls, light ovens, burners, driers, or roasters, and start equipment, such as conveyors, cylinders, blowers, driers, or pumps.
Weigh or measure products, using scale hoppers or scale conveyors.

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