Operate or tend cooking equipment, such as steam cooking vats, deep fry cookers, pressure cookers, kettles, and boilers, to prepare food products.
Operate auxiliary machines and equipment, such as grinders, canners, and molding presses, to prepare or further process products.
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.
Collect and examine product samples during production to test them for quality, color, content, consistency, viscosity, acidity, or specific gravity.
Notify or signal other workers to operate equipment or when processing is complete.
Read work orders, recipes, or formulas to determine cooking times and temperatures, and ingredient specifications.
Tend or operateand control equipment, such as kettles, cookers, vats and tanks, and boilers, to cook ingredients or prepare products for further processing.
Operate cooking, baking, or other food preparation equipment.
Operate grinding equipment.
Operate mixing equipment.
Operate pumping systems or equipment.
Notify others of equipment repair or maintenance needs.
Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
Record operational or production data.
Review blueprints or other instructions to determine operational methods or sequences.