- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who assists car repairer in repairing and rebuilding freight cars, tank cars, or locomotives, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads nuts and bolts and drills metal stock, using hand taps, dies, and drill press.
* Shears metal sheet and bar stock to specified dimensions.
* Straightens metal parts, using hammer and sledge.
* Bolts steel top frames to side frames of car, using power wrench.
* Rolls axle and wheel assemblies into hydraulic wheel-dismounting machine.
* Pulls levers to position ram against end of axle and force wheel from wheel seat.
* Rolls wheel to storage area.
* Caulks seams of car and fills car with water to detect leaks.
* Polishes brass trim on car.
* Repairs or replaces steam and airhoses.
* Lubricates car.
* May be known according to specific task performed as Car Tester; Car-Top Bolter.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and overhauls automobiles, buses, trucks, and other automotive vehicles. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines vehicle and discusses with customer or automobile-repair-service estimator; automobile tester; or bus inspector nature and extent of damage or malfunction.
* Plans work procedure, using charts, technical manuals, and experience.
* Raises vehicle, using hydraulic jack or hoist, to gain access to mechanical units bolted to underside of vehicle.
* Removes unit, such as engine, transmission, or differential, using wrenches and hoist.
* Disassembles unit and inspects parts for wear, using micrometers, calipers, and thickness gauges.
* Repairs or replaces parts, such as pistons, rods, gears, valves, and bearings, using mechanic's handtools.
* Overhauls or replaces carburetors, blowers, generators, distributors, starters, and pumps.
* Rebuilds parts, such as crankshafts and cylinder blocks, using lathes, shapers, drill presses, and welding equipment.
* Rewires ignition system, lights, and instrument panel.
* Relines and adjusts brakes, aligns front end, repairs or replaces shock absorbers, and solders leaks in radiator.
* Mends damaged body and fenders by hammering out or filling in dents and welding broken parts.
* Replaces and adjusts headlights, and installs and repairs accessories, such as radios, heaters, mirrors, and windshield wipers.
* May be designated according to specialty as automobile mechanic, motor; bus mechanic; differential repairer; engine-repair mechanic, bus; foreign-car mechanic; truck mechanic.
* May be designated: compressor mechanic, bus; drive-shaft-and-steering-post repairer; engine-head repairer; motor assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs railroad-car air compressors and compressor motors, following wiring diagrams and using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Disassembles compressor and examines parts for wear or breakage.
* Cleans parts and installs new piston rings and wrist pins.
* Replaces worn bearings, armatures, field coils, gears, and pinions in electric motors, following wiring diagram.
* Reassembles compressor and connects compressor to compressed air and electrical outlets to test operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records information pertaining to merchandise to be returned to manufacturer because of defects, wrong amount, or type. Responsibilities include:
* Examines and compares merchandise with original requisition to record information, such as quantity, type of defects, and date on invoice or other forms.
* Prepares invoices and other forms for all returned goods.
* May type letters or information on records to explain reason for returned goods.
* May compile and file list of merchandise handled.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in pointing, coiling, and load testing hot-wound springs.
* Trains workers in operation of equipment.
* Inspects springs for conformance to specified tension and dimensions, using tension-testing machine and gauges.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of department in manufacturing establishment concerned with providing customers technical services in conjunction with marketing activities. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates technical liaison services between management, production department, sales department, and customers with newly developed techniques or practices in processing company products, and to inform customers of new types, specifications, and end-uses of products.
* Confers with production department managers to assist in specific classification of products from quality assurance position, report on new product or process technology of competitors, and to discuss new specifications required by customers.
* Directs investigation of customer complaints regarding quality, tolerances, specifications, and delivered condition of products.
* Records, analyzes, and informs concerned personnel of production quality assurance, and sales departments of status and disposition of customer complaints and claims.
* Negotiates settlement of claims, for which company is responsible, within limits prescribed by management.
* May survey potential markets for increasing sales.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates rolling machine to straighten warped or bent metal plates, bars, or sheets. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads workpiece between rolls of machine manually or with crane.
* Turns handwheels or nuts to adjust tension between one or more sets of aligned drive and adjustment rolls.
* Pulls lever to move workpiece through rolls of machine.
* Hammers or pries workpiece into alignment, using hammer or pry bar.
* Examines work for straightness, using straightedge and plumb bob.
* Inserts shims under bulges and repeats process to straighten workpiece to specifications.
* May be designated by product straightened as bar-straightening-machine operator; plate roller; wire-straightening-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares reports of labor and equipment costs incurred in loading and unloading ship cargoes. Responsibilities include:
* Compiles reports of tonnage and type of cargo handled, labor charges involved in loading and unloading cargo, and charges for equipment used, such as cranes, barges, and conveyors.
* Computes cost per ton for each type of cargo handled and prepares report of total costs for each ship.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans, disassembles, and reassembles flyers. Respnsibilities include:
* Collects damaged, dirty, or rusted flyers from boxes near machines and carries them to worktable.
* Dumps flyers into tumbler containing cork to clean dirt and rust from them, or uses brush moistened with oil.
* Removes wire arm from flyer with wrench or places hub under press and depresses pedal to open clamps.
* Inserts new wires into hub and tightens them, using wrench or press.
* Drops repaired flyer into chute press or into box.
* May bend wire arms by positioning flyer under press and depressing pedal.
* May record number and type of flyers repaired.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
