Job 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.

Daily Life Of a Cooling & Freezing Equipment Operator or Tender

• Start agitators to blend contents, or start beater, scraper, and expeller blades to mix contents with air and prevent sticking.
• Adjust machine or freezer speed and air intake to obtain desired consistency and amount of product.
• Sample and test product characteristics such as specific gravity, acidity, and sugar content, using hydrometers, pH meters, or refractometers.
• Place or position containers into equipment, and remove containers after completion of cooling or freezing processes.
• Measure or weigh specified amounts of ingredients or materials, and load them into tanks, vats, hoppers, or other equipment.
• Insert forming fixtures, and start machines that cut frozen products into measured portions or specified shapes.

What Every Cooling & Freezing Equipment Operator or Tender Should Know

Below is a list of the skills most Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders say are important on the job.

Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Salary for a Cooling & Freezing Equipment Operator or Tender

Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders make between $22,140 and $49,740 a year.

Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders who work in New Hampshire, Minnesota, or Oregon, make the highest salaries.