Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 1991

Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 1991

J171 - Process Control and Machine Operators, Food and Beverage Processing

Occupations in this unit group are primarily concerned with operating machinery used in the processing of food and beverage products, except fish, by mixing, blending, cooling, fermenting, freezing and similar processes, and operating machinery to bottle or can food and beverage products.

  • Example Titles

    • Bacon curer
    • Bologna maker, food and beverage processing
    • Bologna stuffer, food and beverage processing
    • Bottling-line attendant, food and beverage
    • Bottling-machine operator, food and beverage
    • Brewhouse operator, food and beverage processing
    • Canner, food and beverage processing
    • Casing-machine operator, food and beverage processing
    • Control-room operator, food and beverage processing
    • Cooker, food and beverage processing
    • Cooler operator, food and beverage processing
    • Curer, food and beverage processing
    • Dry curer, food and beverage processing
    • Fermenter operator, food and beverage processing
    • Freezer operator, food and beverage processing
    • Fryer operator, food and beverage processing
    • Ham baker, food and beverage processing
    • Ham boiler, food and beverage processing
    • Ham curer, food and beverage processing
    • Kettle tender, food and beverage processing
    • Lard maker, food and beverage processing
    • Lard refiner, food and beverage processing
    • Lard renderer, food and beverage processing
    • Machine operator, food and beverage processing
    • Meat canner, food and beverage processing
    • Meat cook, food and beverage processing
    • Meat curer, food and beverage processing
    • Meat drier, food and beverage processing
    • Meat grinder, food and beverage processing
    • Meat mixer, food and beverage processing
    • Meat pickler, food and beverage processing
    • Meat salter, food and beverage processing
    • Meat smoker, food and beverage processing
    • Oven operator, food and beverage processing
    • Pasteurizer operator, food and beverage processing
    • Press operator, food and beverage processing
    • Renderer, food and beverage processing
    • Salter, food and beverage processing
    • Sausage making machine operator, food and beverage process
    • Sausage stuffer, food and beverage processing
    • Sausage twister, food and beverage processing
    • Smoker, food and beverage processing
    • Sponge and dough mixer, food and beverage processing
    • Steam tender, food and beverage processing
    • Stuffer, food and beverage processing
    • Stuffing-machine operator, food and beverage processing
    • Sugar boiler, food and beverage processing
    • Tallow maker, food and beverage processing
    • Tallow refiner, food and beverage processing

  • Exclusion

    • Foremen/women, food and beverage processing (See J013 Supervisors, Food, Beverage and Tobacco Processing)
    • Industrial butchers and meat cutters that slaughter livestock and poultry and prepare the initial cuts of meat for further processing and packaging (See J172 Industrial Butchers and Meat Cutters, Poultry Preparers and Related Workers)
    • Workers that process fish (See J173 Fish Plant Workers)
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