Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders

Production · SOC 51-3093

0.0% AI Exposure — Low

$41,590

Median Annual Salary

Average

O*NET Outlook

5,700

Proj. Annual Openings

31,250

Employment (OEWS 2025)

100/100

AI Resiliency Score

AI exposure from the Anthropic Economic Index (2025); salary from BLS; skills from O*NET. See /sources.

AI Exposure Analysis

AI Exposure0.0%

AI Resiliency100/100

Exposure BandLow

Sector Avg. Exposure0.8%

1.Operations Monitoring

2.Reading Comprehension

3.Monitoring

4.Operation and Control

5.Active Listening

O*NET occupation profile

Operate or tend cooking equipment, such as steam cooking vats, deep fry cookers, pressure cookers, kettles, and boilers, to prepare food products.

Common titles: Cooker Operator, Food Production Worker, Fryer Operator, Kettle Fry Cook Operator, Machine Operator, Mogul Operator

•Clean, wash, and sterilize equipment and cooking area, using water hoses, cleaning or sterilizing solutions, or rinses.
•Read work orders, recipes, or formulas to determine cooking times and temperatures, and ingredient specifications.
•Observe gauges, dials, and product characteristics, and adjust controls to maintain appropriate temperature, pressure, and flow of ingredients.
•Measure or weigh ingredients, using scales or measuring containers.
•Tend or operate and control equipment, such as kettles, cookers, vats and tanks, and boilers, to cook ingredients or prepare products for further processing.

•Clean work areas.
•Sterilize food cooking or processing equipment.
•Read work orders or other instructions to determine product specifications or materials requirements.
•Review blueprints or other instructions to determine operational methods or sequences.
•Adjust equipment controls to regulate flow of production materials or products.

Database software

Occupations Shown

0.5%

Avg AI Exposure

Bright Outlook