- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who polishes and repairs loom reeds. Respnsibilities include:
* Cleans lint and gum from reeds, using brush or airhose.
* Examines reeds for alignment of wires, rough edges, and breaks.
* Verifies dents, using micrometers and feeler gauges.
* Straightens and aligns bent wires, using handtools, and solders broken wires.
* Smooths and polishes reeds, using pumice, lime, emery cloth, steel wool, and rotating brush, according to condition of reed.
* Inspects new reeds and stores them with reconditioned reeds according to size.
* Records receipt and transfer of reeds for perpetual inventory.
* May replace defective reeds on loom.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who aids students with behavioral, mental, emotional or physical problems. Responsibilities include:
* Counsels students whose behavior, school progress, or mental or physical handicap or condition indicates need for assistance.
* Consults with parents, teachers, and other school personnel to determine causes of problems and effect solutions.
* Arranges for medical, psychiatric, and other tests and examinations that may disclose causes of difficulties and indicate remedial measures.
* Attempts to alter attitudes and behavior of parents and teachers that cause or aggravate problems.
* Recommends change of class or school, special tutoring, or other treatment to effect remedy.
* Serves as liaison between student, home, school, and community resources, such as family service agencies, child guidance clinics, courts, protective services, doctors, and clergy members.
* Serves as consultant to school personnel regarding students or situations which are not referred for direct service.
* May lead group counseling sessions to enhance social development of individual members and provide peer support in areas such as grief, stress, or chemical dependency.
* Usually required to have knowledge and skill in casework methods acquired through degree program at school of social work and certification by state department of education.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains in efficient operating condition mechanical, electromechanical, optical, and electronic equipment in newspaper composing room, such as line-and-character-type-casting machines, photographic typesetters, copy cameras and reproduction units, teletypesetter-keyboard converter, proof presses, type-cutting saws, and conveyors.
* Repairs, cleans, lubricates, and replaces mechanical components and replaces electronic, electromechanical, and optical components, using handtools, power tools, circuit diagrams, and repair manuals.
* Reports extensive failures in electronics components to supervisor or local service representative of equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs compressed-air valves, such as triple-air valves, cutoff valves, and retainer valves, using handtools, power tools, and measuring instruments according to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Disassembles valves, using power wrench, and cleans parts with gasoline and airhose.
* Measures parts, such as gaskets, valve seats, pistons, and slides for conformance to federal and company specifications, using gauges.
* Scrapes, grinds, and polishes metal contacting surfaces to make surfaces airtight, using rasps and emery polishing cloths.
* Replaces defective parts and reassembles valves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in straightening, facing, testing, cutting, and threading steel pipe, and in coating and bundling pipe for shipment.
* Inspects finished pipe for conformance to specifications, using micrometer, calipers, and gauges.
* Directs changes in machine set-ups when product fails to meet specifications.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machines to roll and press-forge characters onto steel blanks to form typewriter type. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs and aligns roller jaws, and blank-holding, letter-forming, and trimming dies, using handtools.
* Fills hopper with blanks and starts machine.
* Measures type samples for centrality, curvature, and height of characters, using fixture gauge, eye loupe, and shadowgraph or calibrated microscope.
* Compares measurements against type on chart and turns setscrews and shims tooling to align dies and type that conform to specifications.
* May hand feed machine by positioning blank in holding die in rotating table.
* May pry rolled type from holding die, using knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up automatic multiple-operation machines to perform any combination of bending, punching, roll forming, beading, cutting, flanging, shearing, seaming and welding, soldering, or clinching to fabricate metal parts, such as rims, molding, cans, tubing, and housing. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets stops and guides.
* Installs and aligns forming and drive rolls, roller dies, punching, notching, and cutting dies and rams, shears, or saw blades.
* Installs electrodes and adjusts voltage to set up welding or soldering unit.
* Installs coil of tinplate for presses.
* Adjusts speed controls to synchronize action of rolls, cutoff, welding unit, drive rolls, conveyor, or transfer machine.
* Greases and oils machinery, using grease gun, oilcan and brush.
* Operates machines for test run to verify setup.
* Turns machine over to multi-operation-forming-machine operator II.
* May set up mechanized line of machines which operate in tandem.
* May repair malfunctioning machines.
* May be designated by function of machines as production mechanic, tin cans; rim-roller setter; tubing-mill setter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that apply adhesive and bond asbestos lining to automobile brakeshoes for installation by brake repairer. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects stock lining to fit brakeshoes removed from vehicle.
* Feeds lining between rollers of machine that applies bonding adhesive.
* Secures brakeshoes in bonding press after adhesive has set.
* Positions coated lining on shoe and locks press.
* Moves lever to activate press that heats and bonds lining to shoe and automatically releases after specified time.
* Removes bonded shoe from press, using asbestos gloves.
* May rivet linings to brakeshoes and be designated Riveter, Automobile Brakes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates rolling machine to roll ingots into metal strips for use in stamping out jewelry blanks. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions ingot between pressure rollers.
* Turns handwheel and observes calibrated scale indicator to set distance between rollers.
* Moves lever to start machine, and readjusts pressure rollers as needed to reduce ingots to strips of specified thickness.
* Verifies thickness of strips, using micrometer.
* May anneal ingot to soften for further rolling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates power loom to weave wire cloth for products, such as industrial cloths, filters, sieves, or strainers. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews specifications to determine quantity, type, and size wire required.
* Lifts spools of wire, and places them on spindles of creel.
* Verifies specified size of wire, using micrometer.
* Fastens wire ends to back beam of loom.
* Starts beam motor to wind and transfer wire from creel to beam.
* Threads warp wires individually through heddles, between teeth of comb, and fastens ends to roller.
* Adjusts spring of loom to required tension, using wrench.
* Inserts bobbin in shuttle, fastens shoot wire end to roller and pushes switch to start loom.
* Observes loom operation to detect faulty weaving and wire breaks.
* Reweaves and ties broken wires, using pick and magnifying glass.
* Counts mesh of woven cloth to ensure that specifications are met, using pick and counting glass.
* Removes roll of finished cloth from loom, using electric powered lift.
* May wind bobbins while loom is in operation.
* May cut off strip of wire cloth, using scissors or shears for quality control inspection prior to start of production.
* May maintain records of production and non-repairable cloth defects.
Industry:Professional careers
