- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who sets up and operates variety of machines and equipment to fabricate ornamental metal products, such as light fixtures, church statuary, lamps, plaques, and metal artwork, following sketches, artistic and architectural drawings, models, written descriptions, and photographs. Respnsibilities include:
* Interprets data to select materials, lay out reference points, and develop sequence of operations.
* Operates metal fabricating machines, such as shears, saws, brakes, bending machines, and punch and forming presses, to cut stock to size and bend stock to shape.
* Heats pieces in forge to working temperature, as indicated by color.
* Bends, twists, and hammers hot or cold workpieces to achieve specified shape and ornamental imprints, using jigs, scroll iron, twisting fork, vise, and selected peening hammers.
* Operates machine tools to turn, drill, and mill metal to specified dimensions.
* Hammers and peens sheets of metal to form designs, such as flowers or leaves.
* Chases castings to finish metal statuary and plaques.
* Welds, forge welds, brazes, solders, rivets, or bolts components together to assemble workpiece.
* Grinds, buffs, and polishes surface to desired finish.
* Fabricates or forges special jigs, tools, and peening hammers.
* May sculpture plaster patterns for ornamental castings.
* May hand paint finished items.
* May install finished product.
* May specialize in fabricating religious artwork and be known as Ecclesiastical-Art-Metal Worker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that splices pieces of metal banding used to band compressed cotton bales. Respnsibilities include:
* Overlaps ends of two pieces of banding and positions banding on bed of splicing machine.
* Starts machine that automatically folds and crimps metal fasteners around overlapped ends of banding.
* May bend end of each completed band and attach fastening buckle onto bent end.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that bends metal structural shapes, such as bars, strips, rods, angles, and tubes to specified angle or contour. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions workpiece against end stops.
* Locks holding clamp and guide clamp onto workpiece.
* Lubricates workpiece with oil.
* Pulls lever or depresses pedal to activate turntable which draws workpiece through guide clamp and around die block until stopped by plug stops.
* May slide mandrel into tubing instead of using guide clamp.
* May use hand-powered bending machine.
* May perform such fabricating tasks as flaring tube ends, using tube flarer, or cutting metal stock to length, using power shears or saws.
* May attach specified die to machine, using wrench.
* May be designated according to type of stock bent as rod-bending-machine operator ii; tube-bending-machine operator ii; or type of machine tended as two-stage, steel-bender annealer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in extruding lead ingots into wire, swaging wire into cartridge components, such as bullet slugs and point fillers, and recasting scrap into ingots.
* Assists workers in adjusting equipment.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in shearing, punching, forming, tempering, assembling, coiling, peening, and painting springs.
* Trains workers in operation of equipment.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to activities of workers supervised as forming and tempering supervisor; leaf-spring fabrication supervisor; leaf-spring repair supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates spinning lathe to spin (form) shaped articles from sheet or plate metal, using blueprints and knowledge of physical properties of metal. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts specified spinning chuck to headstock spindle and follow block to tailstock, using handtools or power tools.
* Clamps metal disk to chuck by turning handwheel that forces follow block against disk.
* Secures steady rest fixture on cross-slide.
* Starts machine and coats outside of rotating disk with spinning compound.
* Positions, holds, and moves long-handled compound lever tool against disk, using steady rest as fulcrum point, to apply required pressure to form disk over and into shape of spinning chuck.
* Varies amount and location of pressure on disk according to type of metal, shape of spinning chuck, speed of lathe, and temperature and thickness of metal disk.
* Replaces steady rest with bar tool attachment, turns handwheel to set bar tool and cut off excess metal from workpiece.
* Verifies dimension of finished article with steel rule and diameter tape.
* May form wood spinning chucks by turning on lathe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up power shear to cut metal sheet, plate, or bar stock according to work card or blueprint specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Lays out cutting lines on metal stock according to work order, using ruler and square, to obtain maximum number of pieces from stock.
* Sets stops, guides, rake (angle) and pressure of blade on machine, using wrenches, rule, built-in gauge, or template.
* Measures dimensions of first piece for conformance to specifications, using rule and square, or has piece approved by inspector.
* Turns machine over to shear operator II.
* May install fixtures to shear, trim, or bevel workpiece.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends flaring machine that assembles display stands consisting of tube with disk attached to either end. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts end of tube through hole in disk, sets tube in jig on machine table, and starts machine.
* Depresses pedal to raise table and force upper end of tube against rotating flaring tool to hold disk on tube.
* May glue felt over outside faces of disks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabricating aluminum sheets in preparation for assembly into boats. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains new workers in performance of tasks, such as stretching, shearing, and trimming aluminum sheets.
* Inspects work in progress to ensure adherence to company standards.
* Confers with other supervisors to coordinate interdepartmental workflow.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts and evaluates tests on vehicles to check exhaust emissions. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews instructions to determine details of test to be performed.
* Drives vehicle over dynamometer.
* Records identifying data.
* Performs dwell, timing and idle speed tests using gauges, evaluates performance and adjusts performance to manufacturer's specifications.
* Adjusts dynamometer settings to vehicle specifications and connects instrument sensors to exhaust system.
* Starts and operates vehicle according to test program, compares performance with specifications and records results.
* Calibrates, cleans and maintains test equipment and recording devices.
* May diagnose and repair vehicle malfunctions.
* May install smog-control device on tested vehicle.
Industry:Professional careers
