- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who verifies accuracy of automobile sales contracts. Responsibilities include:
* Calculates tax, transfer and license fees, insurance premiums, and interest rates, using tables, schedules, and calculating machine.
* Verifies amount and number of payments, trade-in allowance, and total price of automobile.
* Interviews customer to obtain additional information and explain terms of contract.
* Corresponds with motor vehicle agencies to clear automobile titles.
* Obtains license, signs registration documents on cars traded in, and transfers titles on cars sold.
* Keeps file of sales contracts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates lathe to wind compression, extension, and torsion springs of specified diameter, pitch, and length from wire or bar stock.
* Lifts roll of stock onto holding device, threads stock through guides, and clamps wire to arbor.
* Starts machine to revolve arbor until specified number of coils are wound, guiding coils by hand or using pitch tool.
* Cuts spring from stock, using shears, and reverses arbor direction to remove spring.
* Measures spring for conformance to specifications, using micrometers and gauges, and adjusts arbor and pitch tool to obtain specified product.
* Closes ends of springs, using mallet.
* Squares and flattens spring ends, using grinding machine.
* May adjust length and pitch of formed springs, using mallet and wedge.
* May wind wire springs, using hand-powered lathe, and be designated hand spring coiler.
* May be designated according to product as flexible-shaft winder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to remove dents from metal barrels. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions barrel on lower die of machine, aligning bunghole under water spout of machine.
* Turns side dies of machine to align contour of dies with contour of barrel ends.
* Presses switch that closes side, top, and bottom dies around barrel.
* Pumps water into barrel, forcing walls of barrel against dies and removing dents.
* Stops pump and opens dies after specified water pressure has been attained.
* Examines surfaces of barrel to verify smoothness.
* Pushes barrel from lower die onto conveyor.
* May drain de-dented barrels, pressurize barrels with air, and place barrel in water tank to detect leaks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and overhauls motorcycles, motor scooters, and similar motor vehicles. Respnsibilities include:
* Listens to engine, examines vehicle's frame, and confers with customer to determine nature and extent of malfunction or damage.
* Connects test panel to engine and measures generator output, ignition timing, and other engine performance indicators.
* Dismantles engine and repairs or replaces defective parts, such as magneto, carburetor, and generator.
* Removes cylinder heads, grinds valves, and scrapes off carbon, and replaces defective valves, pistons, cylinders, and rings, using handtools and power tools.
* Hammers out dents and bends in frame, welds tears and breaks, and reassembles and reinstalls engine.
* Repairs and adjusts clutch, brakes, and drive chain.
* Repairs or replaces other motorcycle and motor scooter parts, such as spring fork, headlight, horn, handlebar controls, valve release, gear lever, gasoline and oil tanks, starter, brake lever, and muffler.
* May specialize in repair of motor scooters and be designated Motor-Scooter Repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects and assists in evaluation of data obtained in testing petroleum fuels and lubricants under simulated operating conditions. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects engines after test runs have been made by test-engine operator, for wear, deposits, and defective parts, using microscope and precision weighing and measuring devices to obtain accurate data.
* Records findings and assists in analyzing data.
* Assists in dismantling and reassembling engines during test runs.
* May obtain and analyze samples of engine-exhaust gas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who salvages usable parts from wrecked cars and trucks in auto salvage yard. Respnsibilities include:
* Dismantles vehicles, using handtools, bolt cutters, and oxyacetylene torch.
* Cleans parts, using solvents and brush, or vapor-degreasing machine, and stores parts in bins according to condition and part number.
* Sorts, piles, and loads scrap on railroad cars or trucks.
* May drive tow-truck.
* May sell automobile glass, tires, and parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and tests motorcycles, performing any combination of following tasks according to standard procedures, using handtools and testing instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts motorcycle on test stand.
* Attaches lead wires of test panel to ignition system of motor and runs motor at various speeds to measure generator output, oil pressure, revolution per minute, and other specified operating characteristics.
* Compares test instrument readings with operational charts to detect malfunctions.
* Engages clutch and transmission of motorcycle and listens for sounds denoting malfunction.
* Records findings on worksheet.
* Turns adjustment screw on carburetor to regulate idling speed of motor, using screwdriver.
* Inspects frame and fenders for dents and scratches.
* Tightens frame nuts and bolts, using handtools.
* Tests operation of horn and lights.
* Verifies identification number and optional equipment against data on work order.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains bakery machinery and equipment, such as ovens, conveyors, and slicing and packaging machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines machines and equipment to locate causes of trouble.
* Dismantles machines, using wrenches, pliers, and other handtools.
* Replaces defective parts, adjusts timing gears, sets dies according to specifications, and repairs or replaces belts, conveyor sections, and feeding devices, using handtools, portable electric drills and grinders, and gas and electric welding equipment.
* Cuts and installs pipe and tubing for gas, water, air, and hydraulic lines, using wrench, cutting die, and threading device.
* Sharpens and installs cutting blades in slicing machine.
* Assembles machines.
* Starts machines and observes gauges and other instruments to ensure adherence to processing standards.
* Cleans and lubricates equipment, using rags, brushes, and grease gun.
* May operate machine tools to make or repair parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more automatic machines to head, trim, roll-thread, slot, or tap metal stock to produce nuts, bolts, or other fasteners. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds machine by filling hoppers or loading coiled steel on reel and threading end of coil through feed rolls.
* Starts machine and observes operation.
* Measures parts, using rule or fixed gauge, to determine conformance to specifications.
* Frees stock jammed in feed mechanism, using rod.
* Stops machine and notifies supervisor when machine malfunctions or parts do not conform to specifications.
* Installs and adjusts cutting tools on machine, using wrench and rule.
* May be designated according to type of machine tended as automatic tapping-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates forging and shop equipment to repair leaf-type springs used in automotive vehicles. Respnsibilities include:
* Raises vehicle body, using jack, and removes defective spring.
* Removes defective leaves from spring, using handtools.
* Measures broken leaves and cuts out replacement leaf blanks from steel stock, using flame cutter or power shear.
* Presses ends of main-leaf blank against disk of bench grinder to bevel blank according to size of eyes to be formed.
* Drills or punches bolt holes in blanks, using drill or punch press.
* Places ends of main-leaf blank in furnace to soften ends and shapes ends of blank into eyes, using eye-forming tool.
* Reheats leaves and arches them to required specifications, using peen hammer.
* Quenches spring leaves in oil to temper them according to specifications.
* Places graphite-impregnated lining between leaves to prevent friction.
* Bolts and clips leaves together and forces bushings into spring eyes, using bushing press.
Industry:Professional careers
