List of Career Duties Under Soap Business Sector
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LIST OF CAREER DUTIES UNDER SOAP BUSINESS SECTOR
Batch Mixer Career Duties
- Tend mixer that compounds cleaning powder
- Open valves to admit specified quantities of ingredients into mixer or weighs dumps ingredients into mixer, using scale
- Press button or moves lever to activate mixer that blends ingredients for designated time
- Stop machine opens valve to discharge cleaning powder into storage bins
- May draw sample of blended ingredients for laboratory analysis
- May keep production log.
Centrifuge Operator Career Duties
- Tend centrifuge and auxiliary equipment that washes dries slurry solution, formed during making of soap, to recover glycerin-free salt
- Test sample of slurry from decantation tank for salt content to define rate of flow of solution into centrifuge hopper, using testing instruments, like hydrometer
- Turn valve to run slurry into centrifuge presses switch to start machine
- Observe gauges to verify rate of flow adjusts thermostat to regulate temperature of water in centrifuge
- Open valves to fill drums or silo with salt flakes
- Turn valve to discharge liquid into holding tanks
- May dissolve salt in liquid to make brine perform specific gravity test, using hydrometer.
Copra Processor Career Duties
- Tend battery of machines that grind and filter copra dried coconut meat into coconut oil meal
- Turn valves to regulate flow of steam that heats crushing machine to specified temperature
- Start conveyors, crushing machines and expeller signals worker to start feeding copra into feed hoppers
- Feel ground copra to make sure that texture conforms to specifications
- Observe oil flowing from expeller for presence of excess solids, and feels coconut meal to define if meal contains excessive oil
- Observe gauges clarity of oil leaving filter presses to define if pressure inside filters is within specified limits
- Transfer oil to standby filter presses when clarity or pressure deviates from prescribed standards
- Record oil meal production in log.
Crutcher Career Duties
- Tend machines that mix specified quantities types of liquid, powder, and paste ingredients to form slurry for processing into soap products, like bars, flakes, chips, and granules
- Pull slide from discharge chute of hopper to admit preweighed dry materials into tank, or shovels preweighed solid ingredients into tank
- Open valves to add specified amount of water, paste, or steam
- Start agitator to mix materials for prescribed period of time
- Observe gauge adjusts valves to maintain specified temperature
- Weigh and dumps specified additional ingredients or adjusts scale tank pumps in additional ingredients
- Turn valve to pump completed batch to booster tank, or shovels completed batch into wheelbarrow
- Draw sample of slurry for laboratory analysis
- Record number of batches mixed.
Crutcher Helper Career Duties
- Weigh dumps specified dry materials into feeder hopper of crutcher equipment, that forms slurry for processing into soap powder
- Open valves of supply tanks and waterlines to add prescribed liquid paste
- Mix dye according to specifications dumps dye into batch
- Change cleans strainers
- Sweep cleans work area.
Cutter And Presser Career Duties
- Tend cutting and stamping equipment that cuts bars of soap from logs long bars of soap embosses bars with firm name or trademark
- Move controls to regulate machine speed to maintain uniform movement of soap through plodder bar-forming machine , cutting stamping machines and cooling tower
- Examine soap bars for clean-cut form & uniform color stops equipment when bars are defective, unbolts plodder and removes accumulated soap from plodder plate
- May rub bars under running water to test them for smoothness
- Send sample bars to laboratory for moisture tests
- May tend press that presses bars into specified shape.
Cutter First Career Duties
- Feed soap slabs into machine that cuts slabs into bars
- Place slab of soap on cradle of machine
- Start motor or depresses clutch to activate mechanism that forces slab through cutting frame, divides it into bars and deposits bars in racks at opposite end of cradle
- Inspect bars for specified size
- Remove scrap soap from cutter dumps it into hopper for reprocessing
- Push rack dolly into dryer
- May draw cutting wires through soap slab, using hand-powered winch
- May be designated according to size or weight of slab cut as Slabber, Light soap rel. .
Cutting table Operator First Career Duties
- Feed soap slabs into machine that cuts slabs into bars
- Place slab of soap on cradle of machine
- Start motor or depresses clutch to activate mechanism that forces slab through cutting frame, divides it into bars and deposits bars in racks at opposite end of cradle
- Inspect bars for specified size
- Remove scrap soap from cutter dumps it into hopper for reprocessing
- Push rack dolly into dryer
- May draw cutting wires through soap slab, using hand-powered winch
- May be designated according to size or weight of slab cut as Slabber, Light soap rel. .
Drier machine Hand Career Duties
- Tend equipment and machinery that converts viscous soap into flakes removes excess moisture from flakes
- Turn valves to admit refrigerated water into rollers to chill them to specified temperature to harden soap
- Open valve to allow viscous soap to flow from crutcher machine into chamber equipped with chilling rollers
- Start rollers to press soap into sheets
- Adjust flaking knives that cut sheets of soap into flakes
- Turn valve to regulate flow of flakes into drier
- Turn valves to admit steam to drying cylinders oven jackets to heat drier to specified temperature
- Remove sample of dried flakes tests for moisture content, using moisture testing apparatus
- Adjust temperatures accordingly
- Open valve to discharge dried flakes onto conveyor belt leading to storage bins
- May sharpen flaking knives, using hand file
- May tend equipment to convert liquid insecticide into flakes be designated Flaker Operator chemical .
Flake Drier Career Duties
- Tend equipment and machinery that converts viscous soap into flakes removes excess moisture from flakes
- Turn valves to admit refrigerated water into rollers to chill them to specified temperature to harden soap
- Open valve to allow viscous soap to flow from crutcher machine into chamber equipped with chilling rollers
- Start rollers to press soap into sheets
- Adjust flaking knives that cut sheets of soap into flakes
- Turn valve to regulate flow of flakes into drier
- Turn valves to admit steam to drying cylinders oven jackets to heat drier to specified temperature
- Remove sample of dried flakes tests for moisture content, using moisture testing apparatus
- Adjust temperatures accordingly
- Open valve to discharge dried flakes onto conveyor belt leading to storage bins
- May sharpen flaking knives, using hand file
- May tend equipment to convert liquid insecticide into flakes be designated Flaker Operator chemical .