Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders

Manufacturing
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.

What a cooling and freezing equipment operators and tender does

Become a cooling and freezing equipment operators and tender

If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good cooling and freezing equipment operators and tender

  • 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.
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

Discover what you could earn in Washington

  • Average hourly rate is $22 per hour with an average salary of $45,500 per year.
  • Half of workers earn between $18 and $24 per hour.
  • Half of workers earn an annual salary between $37,000 and $50,100 per year.

Cooling And Freezing Equipment Operators And Tender job outlook

  • There are 70 workers in this occupation in Washington.
  • There are 23 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.

Growth rate by year

Education needed

These occupations usually require a high school diploma.

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