- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who repairs and rebuilds railway freight cars, tank cars, or locomotives, following federal and company regulations and specifications and using handtools, power tools, welding equipment, and measuring instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes and inspects locomotive or car units, such as wheels, truck and brake assemblies, side posts, air cylinders, reservoirs and valves, side and roof sections, and coupler assemblies, using pneumatic hoist and jack, pinch bar, handtools, and cutting torch.
* Disassembles roller bearings, using jacks, blocks, and frames.
* Examines bearings, gaskets, and seals for defects, such as scratches, chips, and excessive wear.
* Replaces defective parts and reassembles roller bearings.
* Measures diameter of axle wheel seats, using micrometer, and marks dimensions on axle for subsequent boring of wheels to specified press fit dimensions.
* Repairs wooden sections, such as flooring and interior walls.
* Repairs or replaces steel sections, such as side posts, rafters, crossties, panels, underframing, and piping, using welding torch, power wrench, and plumber's tools.
* Assembles repaired or replaced units to rebuild locomotive or car.
* Positions width gauge between car sides, clamps turnbuckle ends to top of each side, and twists turnbuckle, using wrench, until sides are pressed against gauge to align sides for installation of car ends and crossties.
* May be designated according to type of car repaired as tank-car repairer.
* May be known according to specific tasks performed as car straightener; wheel fitter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of mechanics, endless track vehicle. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines sequence and assignment of work on basis of work priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel.
* Inspects work performed to ensure compliance with specifications and time schedules.
* Interprets specifications, drawings, work orders, technical instructions, and layouts.
* Coordinates department activities with other departments.
* Recommends or initiates personnel actions, such as promotions, transfers, discharges, and disciplinary action.
* Trains new workers.
* May estimate, requisition, and inspect materials.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and coordinates technical activities in chemical plant, pilot-plant, or chemical-engineering department. Responsibilities include:
* Directs activities of engineering personnel engaged in preparing plans, designs, cost estimates, and specifications for experimental, maintenance, or modernization programs to determine most feasible approach to technical problems.
* Directs activities of engineers and technicians setting up prototype units designed to perform experimental operations.
* Coordinates activities of workers engaged in testing and metering unit operations, and collecting and interpreting processing records.
* Evaluates performance records of chemical processes and physical operations and submits report of findings to management.
* May prepare reports on cost of plant operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends lathe mounted on rails that coils hot iron rods around bodies of fragmentation bombs to increase demolition properties of bombs. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls lever to move lathe to mouth of preheating furnace.
* Lifts bomb from stockpile and clamps it in machine by tightening chuck and tailstock.
* Pulls red-hot rod from furnace, attaches end to bomb fixture, and hammers portion of rod around bomb, using pulling bar and hammer.
* Sets coil-spacing gauge.
* Pushes button to start rotation of bomb in machine.
* Stops machine when rod is coiled on bomb.
* Welds end of coil to bomb.
* Removes bomb from machine, using hoist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines airframe, engines, and operating equipment to ensure that repairs are made according to specifications, and certifies airworthiness of aircraft. Respnsibilities include:
* Tests tightness of airframe connections with handtools and employs flashlight and mirror to inspect fit of parts.
* Signals airframe-and-power-plant mechanic to start engine and manipulate aircraft controls.
* Collects data, such as engine revolutions per minute and fuel and oil pressures, to evaluate engine performance, using tachometer and pressure gauges.
* Examines assembly, installation, and adjustment of ailerons and rudders to ensure that work and materials conform with Civil Air Regulations, company specifications, and manual procedures.
* Determines accuracy of installation of components in power plant and hydraulic system with protractor, micrometer, calipers, and gauge to ensure that specified tolerances are met.
* Signs inspection tag to approve unit, or records reasons for rejecting unit.
* Logs inspections performed on aircraft.
* Must hold Airframe and Power Plant Mechanic's License and Inspection Authorization, issued by Federal Aviation Administration.
* May prepare dismantling schedules for airplanes to be overhauled.
* May service, repair, and replace airframe components, engines, and operating equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates portable electric grinder to resurface damaged or worn mill rolls used to compress reclaim rubber into slabs. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions and bolts grinder to holding fixture beside mill.
* Examines sample slab from mill to determine extent of grinding necessary to resurface rolls.
* Selects and bolts grinding wheel to grinder, and turns setscrews to align it with roll.
* Starts grinder and turns travel screw to feed rotating grinding wheel horizontally along roll.
* Repeats grinding until sample slabs are compressed according to standards.
* Turns adjustment wheel to close rolls of mill, and spreads abrasive compound over ground area of rolls.
* Starts mill to polish roll surfaces.
* Wipes abrasive compound from polished rolls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of airframe-and-power-plant mechanics engaged in maintaining and repairing aircraft and aircraft engines. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains employees in work methods and procedures.
* Inspects work to maintain specified standards and quality.
* Requisitions materials and supplies.
* Must be licensed by Federal Aviation Administration in job occurring in air transportation.
* May supervise workers engaged in servicing aircraft with fuel, lubricants, and coolants.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more slide-forming machines that automatically feed, punch, cut and form strip metal or wire stock to fabricate parts, such as spring clips, brackets, terminal clips, and hairpins. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads strip metal or wire through straightening rolls and die sets by turning flywheel by hand and starts machine.
* Measures sample of finished parts with fixed gauges and examines parts for surface defects or scratches.
* Shuts off machine and notifies supervisor or machine setter if parts do not meet specifications.
* May weld ends of two coils together by locking ends in electric-welding device and pulling lever, to form continuous length of stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists tester operator in cutting and breaking ends of rods and tubes to expose cross-sectional surface for inspection. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds end of workpiece into cutting mechanism, manually or with hoist.
* Piles workpieces in designated areas.
* Salvages scrap materials and examines surface of workpiece for defects, such as pits and scratches, and bubbles beneath surface of workpiece.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains washers, driers, extractors, condensers, pumps, blowers, presses, and other laundry equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Operates, examines, and dismantles equipment to diagnose cause of malfunction.
* Repairs or replaces parts, using handtools and measuring instruments.
* Replaces components, such as bearings, motors, and microswitches.
* Replaces faulty sections of pipe, valves, and fittings, using plumbing tools.
* Dismantles steam traps and removes sediment.
* Removes faceplate from equipment to clean out dust and lint.
* Replaces worn or torn aprons, roll covers, and pads on mangles.
* Lubricates machines and equipment, using grease gun and oilcans.
* May order spare parts.
Industry:Professional careers
