Food & Tobacco Roasting, Baking, & Drying Machine Operators & Tenders
Coffee Roaster, Machine Operator, Roaster, Roasterman
What they do:
Operate or tend food or tobacco roasting, baking, or drying equipment, including hearth ovens, kiln driers, roasters, char kilns, and vacuum drying equipment.
On the job, you would:
- Observe, feel, taste, or otherwise examine products during and after processing to ensure conformance to standards.
- Set temperature and time controls, light ovens, burners, driers, or roasters, and start equipment, such as conveyors, cylinders, blowers, driers, or pumps.
- Observe temperature, humidity, pressure gauges, and product samples and adjust controls, such as thermostats and valves, to maintain prescribed operating conditions for specific stages.
Manufactured or Agricultural Goods
- manufacture and distribution of products
- food production
Arts and Humanities
Safety and Government
- public safety and security
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Basic Skills
- keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
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Hand and Finger Use
- keep your arm or hand steady
- hold or move items with your hands
Verbal
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
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People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.
They do well at jobs that need:
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Independence
- Cooperation
- Self Control
- Initiative
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You might use software like this on the job:
Spreadsheet software
Electronic mail software
Data base user interface and query software
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high school diploma/GED or
no high school diploma/GED
usually needed
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New job opportunities are less likely in the future.
$28,570
per year, on average
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