Skilled Trades
Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
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.
Median salary
$40,160
Typical range
$34k – $63k
Job outlook
+7% (faster than average)
AI exposure
Plan a path to Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
Education
Typical entry: No degree required
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Junior Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
Entry / Junior
$33,710
~2 yrs to advance
Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
Established
$40,160
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
Senior
$51,460
Key skills
A typical day
- •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.
Fields of study
Any field
Top colleges for Skilled Trades
Explore all- Purdue University50% admit · $78,000 grad pay
- Ohio State University53% admit · $68,000 grad pay
- Pennsylvania State University55% admit · $70,000 grad pay
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