Cooling & Freezing Equipment Operators & Tenders

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Job Outlook:
None
Education: High school diploma or equivalent
Salary
High: $61,560.00
Average: $44,240.00
Hourly
Average: $21.27

What they do:

Operate or tend equipment such as cooling and freezing units, refrigerators, batch freezers, and freezing tunnels, to cool or freeze products, food, blood plasma, and chemicals.

On the job, you would:

  • Record temperatures, amounts of materials processed, or test results on report forms.
  • Monitor pressure gauges, ammeters, flowmeters, thermometers, or products, and adjust controls to maintain specified conditions, such as feed rate, product consistency, temperature, air pressure, and machine speed.
  • Read dials and gauges on panel control boards to ascertain temperatures, alkalinities, and densities of mixtures, and turn valves to obtain specified mixtures.

Personality

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Characteristics of this Career

82% Attention to Detail  -  Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
81% Self-Control  -  Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
81% Dependability  -  Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
80% Integrity  -  Job requires being honest and ethical.
75% Leadership  -  Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
72% Initiative  -  Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
71% Adaptability/Flexibility  -  Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
68% Cooperation  -  Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
65% Achievement/Effort  -  Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
65% Stress Tolerance  -  Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Strengths

100% Realistic  -  Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.
67% Conventional  -  Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
A3 Your Strengths Importance

Values of the Work Environment

78% Support  -  Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.

Aptitude

A3 Your Strengths Importance

Abilities | Cognitive, Physical, Personality

69% Near Vision  -  The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
66% 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.

Job Details

Responsibilities
Adjust equipment to ensure optimal performance.
Monitor instruments to ensure proper production conditions.
Record operational or production data.
Monitor equipment operation to ensure proper functioning.
Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of production materials or products.
Clear equipment jams.
Notify others of equipment repair or maintenance needs.
Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of production materials or products.
Adjust temperature controls of ovens or other heating equipment.
Operate pumping systems or equipment.
Assemble electromechanical or hydraulic systems.
Install mechanical components in production equipment.
Clean production equipment.
Weigh finished products.
Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of production materials or products.
Mix substances to create chemical solutions.
Operate mixing equipment.
Measure ingredients or substances to be used in production processes.
Load materials into production equipment.
Load materials into production equipment.
Mount attachments or tools onto production equipment.
Position containers to receive materials or workpieces.
Sterilize food cooking or processing equipment.
Adjust position of molds during processing.
Test chemical or physical characteristics of materials or products.
Collect samples of materials or products for testing.
Adjust equipment controls to regulate coolant flow.
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Attributes & Percentage of Time Spent

100% Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets  -  How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets?
92% Face-to-Face Discussions  -  How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job?
88% Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable  -  How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable?
83% Indoors, Environmentally Controlled  -  How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions?
83% Spend Time Standing  -  How much does this job require standing?
79% Responsible for Others' Health and Safety  -  How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job?
77% Importance of Being Exact or Accurate  -  How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
76% Time Pressure  -  How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines?
76% Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results  -  What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer?
76% Very Hot or Cold Temperatures  -  How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures?
75% Work With Work Group or Team  -  How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job?
74% Structured versus Unstructured Work  -  To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals?
72% Frequency of Decision Making  -  How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization?
72% Freedom to Make Decisions  -  How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?
72% Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment  -  How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.)
71% Contact With Others  -  How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?
71% Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls  -  How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?
69% Coordinate or Lead Others  -  How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job?
69% Importance of Repeating Same Tasks  -  How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job?
67% Responsibility for Outcomes and Results  -  How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers?
65% Letters and Memos  -  How often does the job require written letters and memos?
65% Exposed to Hazardous Equipment  -  How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment?
75% Duration of Typical Work Week  -  Number of hours typically worked in one week.
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Tasks & Values

88% Controlling Machines and Processes  -  Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
80% Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials  -  Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
80% Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings  -  Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
80% Getting Information  -  Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
76% Documenting/Recording Information  -  Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
75% Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates  -  Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
73% Making Decisions and Solving Problems  -  Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
73% Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards  -  Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
70% Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events  -  Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
70% Performing General Physical Activities  -  Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
68% Training and Teaching Others  -  Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
67% Handling and Moving Objects  -  Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
67% Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment  -  Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.

Getting Started

Education:
51%
Less than a High School Diploma
41%
Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production)

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