Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender Operate or tend food or tobacco roasting, baking, or drying equipment, including hearth ovens, kiln driers, roasters, char kilns, and vacuum drying equipment.
Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender is Also Know as
In different settings, Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender is titled as
- Bean Roaster
- Coffee Roaster
- Line Operator
- Machine Operator
- Oven Operator
- Oven Technician
- Roast Master
- Roaster
- Roaster Operator
- Roasterman
Education and Training of Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender
Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender
Training Required for Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender in different industries are
- Food Batchmakers
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders
- Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products
- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Bakers
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Packers and Packagers, Hand
- Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
- Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Conveyor Operators and Tenders
- Cooks, Restaurant
- Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
What Do Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender do?
- Observe, feel, taste, or otherwise examine products during and after processing to ensure conformance to standards.
- Observe temperature, humidity, pressure gauges, and product samples and adjust controls, such as thermostats and valves, to maintain prescribed operating conditions for specific stages.
- Operate or tend equipment that roasts, bakes, dries, or cures food items such as cocoa and coffee beans, grains, nuts, and bakery products.
- Set temperature and time controls, light ovens, burners, driers, or roasters, and start equipment, such as conveyors, cylinders, blowers, driers, or pumps.
- Observe flow of materials and listen for machine malfunctions, such as jamming or spillage, and notify supervisors if corrective actions fail.
- Record production data, such as weight and amount of product processed, type of product, and time and temperature of processing.
- Weigh or measure products, using scale hoppers or scale conveyors.
- Read work orders to determine quantities and types of products to be baked, dried, or roasted.
- Take product samples during or after processing for laboratory analyses.
- Fill or remove product from trays, carts, hoppers, or equipment, using scoops, peels, or shovels, or by hand.
- Open valves, gates, or chutes or use shovels to load or remove products from ovens or other equipment.
- Clean equipment with steam, hot water, and hoses.
- Clear or dislodge blockages in bins, screens, or other equipment, using poles, brushes, or mallets.
- Push racks or carts to transfer products to storage, cooling stations, or the next stage of processing.
- 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.
- Install equipment, such as spray units, cutting blades, or screens, using hand tools.
- Test products for moisture content, using moisture meters.
- Signal coworkers to synchronize flow of materials.
- Dump sugar dust from collectors into melting tanks and add water to reclaim sugar lost during processing.
Qualities of Good Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender
- Automatic hopper scales
- Baking equipment
- Box barns
- Centrifugal coffee roasters
- Char kilns
- Conveyor bakers
- Conveyor dryers
- Conveyor turntables
- Cooling machine pans
- Curing equipment
- Dissolved oxygen sensors
- Dough pumps
- Equipment pressure gauges
- Equipment temperature gauges
- Flood handling scoops
- Fluidized bed dryers
- Food drying equipment
- Food handling shovels
- Food storage bins
- Forced-air food dryers
- Gas furnaces
- Handheld dataloggers
- Hearth ovens
- Heat exchanger conversion kits
- Heat exchanger systems
- Hot air blowers
- Humidification systems
- Humidity sensors
- Impingement ovens
- Kiln driers
- Machine temperature controls
- Material moving carts
- Melting tanks
- Moisture meters
- Oil furnaces
- Perforated drum coffee roasters
- Photospectrometers
- Rack barns
- Rack loaders
- Remote thermometers
- Roasting equipment
- Scale conveyors
- Solid drum coffee roasters
- Tangential coffee roasters
- Tobacco boxes
- Tobacco hanging racks
- Vacuum food drying equipment
Technology Skills required for Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tender
- Email software
- Microsoft Excel