- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who inspects agricultural equipment, such as tractors, combines, and balers for missing, defective, or improperly installed parts and operational malfunctions. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes operation of equipment being driven around test area or on treadmill to detect defects, such as loose fittings, improper assembly, malfunctioning parts, or faulty controls, as indicated by noise, leaks, or irregularities in braking, steering, or transmission mechanisms.
* Aligns power-driven wheels of unit over dynamometer and connects electrical test leads to output terminals.
* Compares dynamometer readings with specification charts to check unit output.
* Assigns assembly repairer to defective equipment, explains defects, and suggests method of repair.
* Examines equipment for paint defects, incorrect decal application, missing tools, and faulty lights.
* Records cause and type of defect and repair work performed.
* May be designated according to type of inspection as treadmill inspector; or type of equipment inspected as combine inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates power brake to bend, notch, punch, form rolls, arc, or straighten metal plates or sheet metal and structural shapes to blueprint or sketch specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects, positions, and aligns dies in machine ram and bed, using shims, rule, square, or templates.
* Turns setscrews or bolts to fasten clamp bar that holds dies in position.
* Turns adjustment screws to set specified pressure of ram and clearance between dies to thickness of metal, as indicated by calibrated scale or feelers.
* Lays out or details layout on work stock from blueprints or templates.
* Positions workpiece manually or with crane, to align layout marks to dies.
* Starts machine to lower ram or depresses pedal to activate ram that bends or cuts metal.
* Sets stops on machine bed and repositions stock to run successive pieces, or to perform multiple operations.
* Verifies dimensions of workpiece, using template or scale.
* May preheat metal in furnace or by using oxyacetylene torch.
* May grind laps or burrs from edges of workpiece, using portable grinder.
* May devise and build temporary dies.
* May operate apron brake which bends metal by forcing metal between movable apron and horizontal bending bar.
* May be designated according to type material processed as Brake Operator, Sheet Metal I; or according to special operations required to process thick metal as Brake Operator, Heavy Duty.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates variety of machines to make latch and spring needles for use in manufacture of knitted or sewn goods. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects dies, jigs, and fixtures working from blueprints.
* Machines hook, shank (holding device), and slot in needle, grinds needle including point, and mills jack to hold spring needle in place.
* May grind rivet to contour designed to lock latch of needle in place.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains diesel engines used to power machines, such as buses, ships, trucks, railroad trains, electric generators, and construction machinery, using handtools, precision measuring instruments, and machine tools. Respnsibilities include:
* Diagnoses trouble, disassembles engines, and examines parts for defects and excessive wear.
* Reconditions and replaces parts, such as pistons, bearings, gears, valves, and bushings, using engine lathes, boring machines, handtools, and precision measuring instruments.
* May weld and cut parts, using arc-welding and flame cutting equipment.
* May be designated according to type of diesel engine or equipment repaired as automobile diesel-engine mechanic; bus diesel-engine mechanic; marine diesel-engine mechanic; truck diesel-engine mechanic; construction diesel-mechanic; farm diesel-mechanic; diesel locomotive repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes power factor and net amount of electric power consumed by commercial customers and determines peak load demand to verify application of appropriate rates. Enters information on record forms for monthly billing purposes. If worker compiles data for statistical reports or reviews rates to determine possible adjustments for commercial consumers of gas and electric power, see rate reviewer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who guides hot steel shapes, such as bars, rods, and sheets, from one set of rolls to another. Respnsibilities include:
* Catches end of hot steel with tongs as it comes through first set of rolls and feeds end into next set of rolls.
* May set and adjust repeaters, guides, and rollers, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who commands yacht cruising on oceans, bays, lakes, and coastal waters. Responsibilities include:
* Sets course of yacht, using navigational aids, such as charts, area plotting sheets, compass, and sextant, and steers yacht to avoid reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards to shipping.
* Determines geographical position of yacht, using loran or azimuths of celestial bodies.
* Signals passing ships, using whistle, flashing lights, flags, and radio.
* Calculates landfall (sighting of land), using electronic sounding devices and following contour lines on chart.
* Approaches land, utilizing aids to navigation, such as lights, lighthouses, and buoys.
* Relinquishes command of yacht to pilot, ship to guide yacht through hazardous waters.
* Maintains yacht's log.
* May be licensed by U.S.
* Coast Guard for steam or motor yacht according to waters navigated and tonnage of yacht.
* May be designated according to waters licensed to navigate as Master, Coastwise Yacht; Master, Ocean Yacht; or according to yacht commanded as Master, Steam Yacht.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists hand former to bend and straighten metal bars, plates, structural shapes, and weldments, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Transports tools, fixtures, stock, and workpieces manually or by truck.
* Places metal in furnace or heats metal, using hand torch.
* Bolts, or clamps fixtures, dies, and shims onto forming block, using hand wrench.
* Lifts, moves, and clamps workpiece onto forming block or fixture manually or using hoist.
* Bends workpiece to specified shape, using pry bar, hammer, sledge, or mallet.
* Measures work to ensure conformance to specifications, using template, rule, or straightedge.
* Marks or tags identifying information onto finished work.
* Chips or grinds and trims rough or sharp edges from workpiece, using hand grinder, shears, hack saw, or air chisel.
* Cleans dirt and grease from tools and equipment.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates keyboard or other data entry device to enter data into computer or onto magnetic tape or disk for subsequent entry. Responsibilities include:
* Enters alphabetic, numeric, or symbolic data from source documents into computer, using data entry device, such as keyboard or optical scanner, and following format displayed on screen.
* Compares data entered with source documents, or re-enters data in verification format on screen to detect errors.
* Deletes incorrectly entered data, and re-enters correct data.
* May compile, sort, and verify accuracy of data to be entered.
* May keep record of work completed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that rivets metal furniture parts together. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns predrilled holes in parts and inserts rivets into holes.
* Positions and holds parts on die in machine bed.
* Depresses pedal or pulls lever to lower ram and die hammer that flattens shank, expanding shank and joining parts.
* May rivet together slide and cross bars to form cradles for holding file drawers in cabinets and be designated Cradle-Slide Maker.
Industry:Professional careers
