- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists side shear crew to move, position, and hold hot-rolled steel plate for shearing operations, using push bar and plate wrench. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes steel plate over caster bed equipped with goose neck rollers to align plate under knife blade, using long handle push bar.
* Positions and holds steel plate on shear block to prevent movement during shearing operation, using plate wrench.
* Assists crew in charging shear knife blade, using handtools.
* May lubricate knife blade and shear table, using oilcan.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists wire weaver, cloth in weaving wire cloth or screening. Respnsibilities include:
* Transports beams, magazines, wire stock, and machine parts to looms.
* Attaches wire from spools to warp beam, threads warp wire through heddles and reeds of machine, and ties sections of warp wire together.
* Removes beams of finished screen or cloth from looms and transports them to stockroom or finishing department, using hoist, truck, conveyor, or dolly.
* Removes spools and bobbins from automatic spooling machines and racks them onto magazines.
* May thread warp wires individually through heddles, between teeth of reed, and fasten ends to roller.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabricating, repairing, and supplying equipment used in loading and unloading ships' cargoes. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews work orders, inventory and other reports and assigns workers to activities, such as repairing equipment, fabricating special gear, and supplying cargo-handling equipment required for stevedoring operations.
* Inspects gear for quality of work and conformance to standards.
* Requisitions materials.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates power press equipped with pressure blocks or dies to straighten warped or bent metal objects, such as plates, structural castings, shapes, forgings, and shafts to specified dimensions. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines workpiece to locate defects, using such devices as straightedge, deflection gauge, template, and square.
* Positions and locks specified pressure blocks, or die, into ram of machine, or positions shims under high spots of workpiece.
* Lifts and positions workpiece into bed of machine manually or using jib or crane.
* Starts ram which presses out bent or high spots of workpiece.
* Reexamines and repositions workpiece, changing shims for each pass until workpiece conforms with specifications.
* May turn levers or handwheels to adjust depth and pressure of ram.
* May preheat metal, using heating furnace or hand torch and clean dies between pressings, using compressed air, oil, and brush.
* May tend machine equipped with preset dies to bend metal to specified shapes.
* May grind rough edges from finished workpiece, using portable hand grinder.
* May be designated according to part straightened as barrel straightener ii; crankshaft straightener; gear straightener; or according to type press operated as gag-press straightener.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains pin spindles and refills oil containers on yarn texturing machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects spindles previously removed from machines for wornout pin shafts and cracked or worn eyelet.
* Discards spindles with wornout pin shaft.
* Glues eyelet onto bottom of spindle shaft or inserts cleaned or new pinhead on spindle, using allen wrench, to repair or restore spindle.
* Cleans spindle, spindle shaft, and inside of pinhead, using cloth and cleaning fluid.
* Removes empty oil container from machine and fills container with oil from barrel, using hand pump.
* Replaces container on machine when full.
* Checks oil level in oil box and fills box with oil, using hand pump.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds flat strips of hoop steel, in which rivet holes have been punched, into rolls of machine to form barrel hoops.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains electric golf carts at golf course or in automotive repair shop, using handtools and electrical testing devices. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines type of repairs required by reading work orders, talking to cart operator, or test-driving cart.
* Tests operational performance of motor, using voltmeter, ammeter, and wattmeter.
* Dismantles motor and repairs or replaces defective parts, such as brushes, armatures, and commutator, using wrenches, pliers, and screwdrivers.
* Rewires electrical systems, and repairs or replaces electrical accessories, such as horn and headlights.
* Tests and recharges or replaces batteries.
* Lubricates moving parts and adjusts brakes and belts.
* May perform structural repairs to body of cart, seats, and fabric tops.
* May record parts used and labor time on work order.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates extrusion press to shape hot billets into products, such as bars, tubing, structural shapes, and rods. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs dies, mandrels, containers, heating coils, press tools, extrusion heads, and run-out bridging in press, according to size and type of product, using handtools.
* Removes billet from furnace when color indicates specified temperature and guides it along extrusion press conveyor onto press bed, and into billet container, using tongs.
* Starts ram that spreads billet into container and forces it through press.
* Regulates rate of extrusion to prevent metal rupture and adherence of metal to container walls.
* Starts press run-out table and butt shears to guide extrusion from press, and to trim flash.
* Pulls extrusion along conveyor to racking table.
* Sprays die with lubricant and caustic, and oils blocks and mandrels.
* Records data, such as crew time, number of billets used, and items processed.
* May operate extrusion press equipped with furnace that ejects hot billets into press chamber for ram to force through die.
* May set up and operate extrusion press to shape hot, radioactive uranium fuel elements.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who commands riverboat to transport passengers, freight, or other cargo along rivers. Responsibilities include:
* Determines course and speed of riverboat on basis of knowledge of winds, weather, tides, and current.
* Steers riverboat or orders crew worker at helm to steer riverboat and navigates boat to avoid reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards to shipping, utilizing aids to navigation, such as lighthouses and buoys.
* Inspects riverboat to ensure that passengers and crew observe regulations pertaining to safe and efficient operation of riverboat.
* Relinquishes command of riverboat to pilot, ship to guide riverboat through hazardous waters.
* Maintains riverboat's log.
* Must be licensed by U.S.
* Coast Guard for steam or motor riverboat according to waters navigated and tonnage of riverboat.
Industry:Professional careers
