Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Bright Outlook
- Rapid Growth
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.
What you’d do
- 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.
- Start machinery, such as pumps, feeders, or conveyors, and turn valves to heat, admit, or transfer products, refrigerants, or mixes.
- Correct machinery malfunctions by performing actions such as removing jams, and inform supervisors of malfunctions as necessary.
- Assemble equipment, and attach pipes, fittings, or valves, using hand tools.
Skills that matter
- Operations Monitoring
- Operation and Control
- Critical Thinking
- Complex Problem Solving
- Monitoring
- Equipment Maintenance
How to get there
Little to some preparation: usually a high school diploma or GED, though some jobs do not need one
Also called
- Freezer Operator
- Freezer Person
- Refrigeration Operator
- Refrigeration Technician
- Certified Refrigeration Operator
- Compressor Operator
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