Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
Operate or tend cooking equipment, such as steam cooking vats, deep fry cookers, pressure cookers, kettles, and boilers, to prepare food products.
- Tasks
- 17 tasks14 core, 3 supplemental
- Family
- ProductionOne of its 114 occupations
- Code
- 51-3093.00SOC 2018: 51-3093
What the work is made of
14 core tasks and 3 supplemental, each quoted as published, with the survey it came from.
Core: central to the jobSupplemental: done by some, not all
- Task 1. Clean, wash, and sterilize equipment and cooking area, using water hoses, cleaning or sterilizing solutions, or rinses.Core taskTask 4949Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 2. Read work orders, recipes, or formulas to determine cooking times and temperatures, and ingredient specifications.Core taskTask 4948Rated by 57 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 3. Observe gauges, dials, and product characteristics, and adjust controls to maintain appropriate temperature, pressure, and flow of ingredients.Core taskTask 4947Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 4. Measure or weigh ingredients, using scales or measuring containers.Core taskTask 4952Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 5. Tend or operate and control equipment, such as kettles, cookers, vats and tanks, and boilers, to cook ingredients or prepare products for further processing.Core taskTask 4951Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 6. Record production and test data, such as processing steps, temperature and steam readings, cooking time, batches processed, and test results.Core taskTask 4944Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 7. Set temperature, pressure, and time controls, and start conveyers, machines, or pumps.Core taskTask 4950Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 8. Remove cooked material or products from equipment.Core taskTask 4954Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 9. Collect and examine product samples during production to test them for quality, color, content, consistency, viscosity, acidity, or specific gravity.Core taskTask 4946Rated by 57 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 10. Pour, dump, or load prescribed quantities of ingredients or products into cooking equipment, manually or using a hoist.Core taskTask 4958Rated by 57 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 11. Listen for malfunction alarms, and shut down equipment and notify supervisors when necessary.Core taskTask 4945Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 12. Notify or signal other workers to operate equipment or when processing is complete.Core taskTask 4955Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 13. Turn valves or start pumps to add ingredients or drain products from equipment and to transfer products for storage, cooling, or further processing.Core taskTask 4956Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 14. Admit required amounts of water, steam, cooking oils, or compressed air into equipment, such as by opening water valves to cool mixtures to the desired consistency.Core taskTask 4953Rated by 54 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 15. Activate agitators and paddles to mix or stir ingredients, stopping machines when ingredients are thoroughly mixed.Supplemental taskTask 4959Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 16. Operate auxiliary machines and equipment, such as grinders, canners, and molding presses, to prepare or further process products.Supplemental taskTask 4960Rated by 55 people who do the job, August 2021
- Task 17. Place products on conveyors or carts, and monitor product flow.Supplemental taskTask 4957Rated by 56 people who do the job, August 2021
Where this comes from
Quoted from the U.S. Department of Labor, and credited. Nothing on this page is written by us.
How we copy and credit sources- Published byO*NET 29.0, U.S. Department of LaborEmployment and Training Administration
- ClassificationStandard Occupational Classification 2018, 51-3093
- LicenseCC BY 4.0Free to copy and reuse, with credit
- Changed by usNothing.
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