Employment Percentage
-25
SOC ID
51-9193
SOC Title
Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
ONET ID
51-9193.00
ONET Concat ID
51919300
Median Salary
32017.73
EMSI Interest Area Term
Ed Level High School
58.75
Ed Level Certificate
40.77
Ed Level Some College
0.48
Ed Level Associates
0
Ed Level Bachelors
0
Ed Level Masters
0
Ed Level Doctors
0
Typical Ed Level
a high school diploma or less
Career Description
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.
Core Tasks
- 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.
Start Annual Earnings
24498.65
Top Annual Earnings
64043.8
EMSI Career Title Slug
cooling-and-freezing-equipment-operator-and-tender