Cooling & Freezing Equipment Operators & Tenders

Freezer Operator, Freezer Person, Refrigeration Operator, Refrigeration Technician

What they do:

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.

On the job, you would:

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.

Knowledge

Manufactured or Agricultural Goods

manufacture and distribution of products
food production

Arts and Humanities

English language

Engineering and Technology

mechanical

Business

management

Skills

Basic Skills

thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements