Operate or tend food or tobacco roasting, baking, or drying equipment, including hearth ovens, kiln driers, roasters, char kilns, and vacuum drying equipment.
<ul><li>Observe, feel, taste, or otherwise examine products during and after processing to ensure conformance to standards.</li><li>Set temperature and time controls, light ovens, burners, driers, or roasters, and start equipment, such as conveyors, cylinders, blowers, driers, or pumps.</li><li>Observe temperature, humidity, pressure gauges, and product samples and adjust controls, such as thermostats and valves, to maintain prescribed operating conditions for specific stages.</li><li>Observe flow of materials and listen for machine malfunctions, such as jamming or spillage, and notify supervisors if corrective actions fail.</li><li>Record production data, such as weight and amount of product processed, type of product, and time and temperature of processing.</li><li>Weigh or measure products, using scale hoppers or scale conveyors.</li><li>Operate or tend equipment that roasts, bakes, dries, or cures food items such as cocoa and coffee beans, grains, nuts, and bakery products.</li><li>Signal coworkers to synchronize flow of materials.</li><li>Read work orders to determine quantities and types of products to be baked, dried, or roasted.</li><li>Fill or remove product from trays, carts, hoppers, or equipment, using scoops, peels, or shovels, or by hand.</li></ul>