- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who compiles employees' time and production records, using calculator or computer. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews timesheets, workcharts, and timecards for completeness.
* Computes total time worked by employees, using calculator or computer, posts time worked to master timesheet, and routes timesheet to payroll department.
* May pay employees.
* May calculate time worked and units produced by piece-work or bonus work employees, using calculator or computer, and be designated Time Checker or Work Checker.
* May locate workers on jobs at various times to verify attendance of workers listed on daily spot sheet and be designated Spotter.
* May interview employees to discuss hours worked and pay adjustments to be made and be designated Pay Agent.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to replace worn clothing on carding machine flats and to align, grind, and burnish flats. Respnsibilities include:
* Strips worn clothing from flats, using handtools, and rubs flats with sandpaper to remove rust.
* Places stripped flat in jig and moves level gauge across length of flat to detect flats that are out of alignment.
* Straightens bent flats, using lever or hammer.
* Places flats in milling machine to shape ends of flats to correspond with bends on which flats slide on carding machine.
* Places flats in jig of rolling press, positions clothing assembly over flats, and starts rolling press that moves over length of flat, shaping and clamping clothing clip to flat.
* Places clothed flats in bed of grinding machine, lowers grinding head over flats, and starts machine that grinds wire points to uniform length.
* Removes ground flats from machine after specified length of time, places flats in bed of burnishing machine, and starts burnishing wheel that removes burrs caused by grinding.
* Dusts rust preventative on reclothed flats, assembles flats in sets, and packs sets in crates.
* Wraps and seals crates in plastic material and attaches shipping label to crate.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates traveling and stationary tables to feed heated or cold steel or nonferrous blooms, billets, and slabs to rolls for successive passes through roll stands. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves levers to position tilting and trailing tables in front or rear of roll stand and align steel with roll guides preparatory to feeding steel into rolls.
* Starts table rollers that feed steel into rolls for specified number of passes.
* Aids other workers in making roll changes and adjusting equipment.
* May be designated according to type of table operated as approach-table operator; delivery-table operator; tilting-table operator; transfer-table operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs yarn texturing machine malfunctions, utilizing knowledge of machine operation. Respnsibilities include:
* Patrols assigned area to observe cards that indicate malfunctions of specific sections of multiunit machine.
* Slides cover on suction line behind machine sections with malfunction, breaks yarn, and feeds yarn into suction opening to maintain flow of yarn.
* Removes unevenly wound packages of yarn, places takeup tube in cradle of machine sections, and observes takeup of yarn onto tubes to determine cause of malfunctions.
* Feels yarn running from creel through machine sections, such as sensors, rollers, friction units, and guides, to detect excess tension on yarn and replaces defective parts, using handtools.
* Inspects drive belts on feed rollers and replaces worn belts, using handtools.
* Observes machine for other defects, such as missing guides and oil leaks.
* Requisitions replacement parts needed for machine repair.
* Cleans and removes waste from cutter sensors and friction units.
* Removes yarn wrapper around feed rolls or power shafts of machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists ornamental-metal worker in performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts metal stock to specified size, using shears and saws.
* Bends or twists stock into specified shape, using handtools, bending jigs, scroll irons, and power brakes.
* Welds, brazes, forge welds, or bolts components together at designated points.
* Cleans and builds fire in heating forge.
* Heats and hammers metal to shape, using specified peening hammers.
* Grinds and polishes surface of workpieces to specified finish.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds solder wire onto metal spools. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions empty spool on machine spindle and secures end of wire to spool.
* Depresses foot pedal and manually guides wire so that wire winds evenly along revolving spool.
* Weighs filled spool on scales and adds or removes wire to attain specified weight.
* Cuts wire with wire snippers and hooks end of wire on rim of spool.
* Verifies size and type of wire with label on end of spool.
* May tend machine that winds aluminum wire onto metal spools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists maintenance mechanic in repairing and maintaining automotive and mechanical machinery and equipment, such as pumps, compressors, pipelaying machines, ditch-diggers, trucks, and tractors, using jacks, hoists, and handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs jacks and hoists to raise equipment.
* Disassembles and assembles equipment, using handtools.
* Cleans tools and parts with naphtha, gasoline, and other cleaning compounds.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts battery of foot-powered presses that shape and assemble metal buckles, buttons, and parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Obtains specified die and punch from rack according to size and shape of product.
* Installs die and punch in machine and adjusts stroke of press ram, using wrenches.
* Test-operates machine, and examines test-run product for defects, such as malformation, misalignment, dents, burrs, and scratches.
* Measures product to verify dimensions, using micrometer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates spinning lathe to spin (form) and clean musical instrument bells. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts bell-shaped mandrel onto lathe and positions and locks bell on mandrel.
* Starts bell rotating and positions forming tool in holding device.
* Holds and moves forming tool along bell, applying pressure to form bell to shape of mandrel.
* Holds cutting tool against spinning bell to trim bell to size.
* Removes tarnish and scale from bell, using file, chisel, and emery cloth.
* Holds scraping tool against bell head to remove excess solder.
* Holds bead tool against bell to roll edge back, forming bead cavity.
* May burnish bell with burnishing tool.
* May insert wire into bead cavity and close cavity with bead tool.
* May be designated according to instrument as sousaphones bell spinner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs, calibrates, and maintains medical equipment and instrumentation used in health-care delivery field. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects and installs medical and related technical equipment in medical and research facilities for use by physicians, nurses, scientists, or engineers involved in researching, monitoring, diagnosing, and treating physical ailments or dysfunctions.
* Services various equipment and apparatus, such as patient monitors, electrocardiographs, blood-gas analyzers, x-ray units, defibrillators, electrosurgical units, anesthesia apparatus, pacemakers, blood-pressure transducers, spirometers, sterilizers, diathermy equipment, in-house television systems, patient-care computers, and other related technical paraphernalia.
* Repairs, calibrates, and maintains equipment, using handtools, power tools, measuring devices, and knowledge of manufacturers' manuals, troubleshooting techniques, and preventive-maintenance schedules.
* Safety-tests medical equipment and health-care facility's structural environment to ensure patient and staff safety from electrical or mechanical hazards.
* Consults with medical or research staff to ascertain that equipment functions properly and safely, utilizing knowledge of electronics, medical terminology, human anatomy and physiology, chemistry, and physics.
* May demonstrate and explain correct operation of equipment to medical personnel.
* May modify or develop instruments or devices, under supervision of medical or engineering staff.
* May work as salesperson or service technician for equipment manufacturers or their sales representatives.
Industry:Professional careers
