Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation 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.

National salary and employment

Top skills

Typical 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.
• Measure or weigh specified amounts of ingredients or materials, and load them into tanks, vats, hoppers, or other equipment.
• Activate mechanical rakes to regulate flow of ice from storage bins to vats.

Technology

• Google Gmail
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Word

Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders salary by location

Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.

• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in PA
  Median $39,360 · Employment 760
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in GA
  Median $46,770 · Employment 540
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in TX
  Median $35,810 · Employment 510
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in NC
  Median $39,030 · Employment 420
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in MS
  Median $38,200 · Employment 360
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in CA
  Median $42,100 · Employment 310
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in IA
  Median $62,520 · Employment 290
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in MI
  Median $31,700 · Employment 290
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in AL
  Median $35,280 · Employment 280
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in AR
  Median $38,090 · Employment 270
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in OH
  Median $48,160 · Employment 240
• Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders Salary in MO
  Median $53,940 · Employment 200

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