- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who sets up and operates arbor press to press-fit parts, such as bearings, linings, armatures, or wheels to housings or shafts. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs specified holding fixtures and dies on press, using rule, gauges, and handtools.
* Positions workpiece on press bed under ram, manually or using hoist.
* Moves controls to lower ram that presses part onto shaft or into housing.
* May mix white lead and apply it to parts as necessary, using brush, and remove scale, rust, burrs, and excess white lead, using files, wire brush, and rags.
* May be designated according to parts assembled as bearing-press-machine operator; cylinder-block-hole reliner; wheel-press operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates roughing mill roll stands to reduce steel billets, blooms, and slabs to specified dimensions, using knowledge of rolling practices and steel properties. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads rolling order to determine setup specifications.
* Installs rolling equipment, such as roll stands, guides, bar turners, and repeaters on rolling line, using handtools, bars, levers, and sledges.
* Moves controls to set specified draft between rolls at each stand.
* Observes color of heated steel to determine rolling temperature and starts roughing stands.
* Examines product passing through mill for surface defects, such as scratches and cracks.
* Verifies specified gauge of product after each pass, using calipers.
* Gives directions to mill crew in readjusting roll draft and realigning guides.
* May set up and monitor computerized roughing roll stands.
* May be designated according to type of mill operated as bar mill rougher; hot-strip mill rougher; merchant mill rougher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles, posts, and retrieves credit information, using computer, and reports credit information to subscribers of credit reporting agency. Responsibilities include:
* Answers requests received by computer modem, mail, or telephone from subscribers for information about credit applicants.
* Identifies caller by code.
* Enters inquiry into computer to retrieve requested information.
* Transmits information to subscriber, using computer and modem, reads information to subscriber over telephone, or generates printout for mailing to subscriber.
* Compiles and enters credit information into computer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drafts detailed drawing plans for manufacture of tools, usually following designs and specifications indicated by tool designer.
* Performs other duties as described under drafter master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains, repairs, and overhauls farm machinery, equipment, and vehicles, such as tractors, harvesters, pumps, tilling equipment, trucks, and other mechanized, electrically powered, or motor-driven equipment, on farms or in farm-equipment repair shops. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines and listens to machines, motors, gasoline and diesel engines, and equipment for operational defects and dismantles defective units, using handtools.
* Repairs or replaces defective parts, using handtools and machine tools, such as drill press, lathe, milling machine, woodworking machines, welding equipment, grinders, and saws.
* Reassembles, adjusts, and lubricates machines and equipment to ensure efficient operation.
* May install and repair wiring and motors to maintain farm electrical system.
* May install and repair plumbing systems on farm.
* May construct and repair buildings and other farm structures.
* May assemble and erect new farm machinery and equipment.
* May be designated according to equipment maintained as viner mechanic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests performance of new and overhauled aircraft engines, such as turboprop, turbofan, turbojet, and cylinder-type, and interprets test data. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions or directs other workers in positioning engine on test stand, using hoist or overhead crane.
* Connects oil and fuel lines, instruments, controls, and engine accessories, such as generators, magnetos, and fuel injectors, using handtools.
* Connects testing instruments, such as dynamometers and manometers, to engine.
* Starts and operates engine for specified time at various speeds.
* Reads and records test data, such as speed, temperature, oil pressure, fuel consumption, and exhaust pressure.
* Calculates performance of engine at various speeds, using test data, standard formulas, computer or calculator.
* Signs off tested engines as ready for service or indicates reasons for rejection based on analysis of test data.
* Must be licensed by or perform work under licensure of Federal Aviation Administration.
* May operate computerized test equipment to enter, retrieve, and compute test data and be designated Test Cell Technician.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests operation of outboard motor in tank and repairs, adjusts, or replaces parts according to specifications and engineering requirements, using measuring instruments and handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Lowers motor on test frame into water tank, using chain hoist, and inspects wiring, screws, plugs, and assemblies for missing or broken parts.
* Starts motor and listens to and inspects it for signs of malfunctioning, such as smoke, excessive vibration, and misfiring.
* Holds tachometer against turning shaft and reads revolutions per minute.
* Verifies timing of cam gears, idle gear, and flywheel, using stroboscope.
* Turns regulating screws on carburetor to adjust idle speed, choke, and high-low speed.
* Sets starter lock and aligns shift lever shaft with indicated marks for speeds, using gauges, screwdrivers, and wrenches.
* Measures voltage, amperage, and polarity, using ammeter, voltmeter, and polarity gauge.
* Idles motor and observes thermometer to determine effectiveness of cooling system.
* Writes test report to indicate acceptance or reason for rejection of motor.
* Oils carburetor.
* Stamps identification number on motor, using hammer and metal stamping equipment.
* May test specific aspects of engine performance, such as fuel consumption, compression, and power output, and recommend modifications to improve engine performance and be designated Life Tester, Outboard Motors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends lathe that spins (forms) shaped articles from sheet or plate metal. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes lever to move tailstock, forcing disk against chuck of lathe.
* Slides hydraulic carriage forward to position circular forming tool against metal disk.
* Starts machine that presses rotating circular tool against disk to form disk into shape of spinning chuck.
* Removes finished article and verifies dimensions, using fixed gauge.
* May tend spinning lathe equipped with knife and beading rolls which trims, or trims and bends, shaped article.
* May tend spinning lathe to bead and iron smooth finish or form knurls onto drawn articles.
* May be designated according to operation performed as automatic-beading-lathe operator; automatic rolling-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains electric, diesel, and gasoline industrial trucks, following manuals, and using handtools, power tools, and knowledge of electrical, power transmission, brake, and other automotive systems. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads job order and observes and listens to truck in operation to determine malfunction and to plan work procedures.
* Installs new ignition systems, aligns front wheels, changes or recharges batteries, and replaces transmissions and other parts, using handtools.
* Overhauls gas or diesel engines, using mechanic's handtools, welding equipment, standard charts, and hoists.
* Examines protective guards, loose bolts, and specified safety devices on trucks, and makes adjustments, using handtools.
* Lubricates moving parts and drives repaired truck to verify conformance to specifications.
* May fabricate special lifting or towing attachments, hydraulic systems, shields, or other devices according to blueprints or schematic drawings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that shapes right-angle twist in ends of metal bed slats. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts motor and places end of slat in machine.
* Depresses pedal that causes machine to twist slat and automatically stop when cycle is completed.
* Removes twisted end of slat from machine, reverses it, and twists other end.
Industry:Professional careers
