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A professional who designs agricultural machinery and equipment, performing duties as described under design engineer, products master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that reduces diameter of temple wire (used in eye glass frames) and temple soldered joints.
* Inserts wire between dies mounted in chuck.
* Starts machine that hammers wire in dies to uniform size as chuck revolves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles uranium fuel elements for subsequent extrusion in atomic fuel plant. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production schedule to ascertain number and size of uranium fuel elements to be assembled and percentage of uranium to be used in each fuel element.
* Places components, such as copper and zirconium sleeves, uranium billets, and end plates in basket, and immerses filled basket in chemical and rinsing solutions to clean grease, dirt, scale, and other foreign matter from components, using crane.
* Transfers baskets of components to drier, using crane, and starts blower unit that circulates air to remove moisture from components.
* Conveys components to assembly table, using crane.
* Positions components together in specified relationship to form fuel element subassembly.
* Secures subassembly on rotating base of welding equipment, and welds sections to seal assembly, using argon-gas welding equipment.
* Connects sealed fuel element valve to pump and activates pump to create vacuum in fuel element to prevent oxidation of element during extrusion process.
* Connects fuel element to helium leak detector and observes dial readings to detect deviations from standards for each element.
* Rewelds and retests defective fuel elements.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and repairs wooden and plastic loom shuttles. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines shuttles for defects, such as splits, knots, and scratches, or determines defect from reading work ticket.
* Removes metal tips and shuttle edges, using screwdriver.
* Cleans and polishes metal parts, using abrasive cloth and grinding machine.
* Smooths rough places on shuttles by hand or using sanding machine.
* Realigns metal eyes, using screwdriver.
* Cuts fur, bristles, nylon cord, or other fabrics, using scissors, and glues them to shuttle walls to increase yarn tension.
* Removes and replaces shuttles on looms, using wrenches and screwdriver.
* Measures shuttle exteriors with gauges and rulers to verify dimensions before placing them on loom.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects railroad locomotives in roundhouse or shop to determine extent of wear and needed repairs, using handtools and measuring instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines firebox, journal boxes, and bearings to detect wear.
* Taps parts, such as rods, wheels, and bolts with hammer or rawhide mallet and listens to sound to detect ruptures or cracks.
* Measures wheel flanges with calipers and depth gauge to detect excessive wear or flat spots.
* Reports defects to roundhouse supervisor or prepares inspection report form.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to form longitudinal bends, rolls, beads, or embossed design onto sheet metal strips by action of two or more roller dies to fabricate items, such as molding, trim, weatherstrip, and structural shapes specified by work order or diagram. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts specified roller dies and drives rolls onto spindles.
* Positions spindles to align male and female roller dies and adjusts rolls to thickness of metal, using feelers, rule, shims, gauges, and handtools.
* Sets side guides.
* Turns knobs to set footage meter and control which stops machine or activates automatic shear when specified length of strips has been run.
* Lifts coils of metal onto feedrack, manually or by hoist, and threads end into feed roll.
* Directs flow of coolant onto rolls or fills oilcups.
* Starts machine, observes operation, and verifies dimensions of finished products, using micrometers, gauges, and rule.
* Threads end of formed stock onto rewind spindle and cuts it to specified length, using hand shears, or removes finished pieces from machine bed.
* May butt-weld ends of coil together to form continuous feed.
* May feed precut strips of metal into machine.
* May turn knobs or install gears to adjust speed of machine.
* May verify coolant levels in machine and oil and grease moving parts as specified.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in marking and attaching price tickets or tags to merchandise in marking room of retail establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews invoices and purchase orders and makes rounds of work stations to determine type and amount of marking tickets required for each shipment of goods.
* Periodically examines test run of tickets printed by ticketers, to detect machine skips or other printing errors.
* Obtains completed batches of marking tickets, distributes tickets with purchase orders, and initiates correction form when discrepancies between merchandise and purchase order entries are noted by markers.
* Regularly participates in marking and tagging merchandise to assist workers and maintain production.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages activities of gun club. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with governing body, and other gun clubs, organizations and associations to arrange competitive shooting meets.
* Publicizes events and club facilities to acquaint public with sport and to solicit members.
* Informs club members of coming events through bulletin notices or club paper.
* Purchases ammunition, firearms, and supplies.
* Sells supplies and firearms to club members.
* Coordinates events to determine eligible participants, type of competition, and time meet is held.
* Advises participants of changes in rules and regulations governing meet.
* Keeps records of expenditures, dues, and membership.
* Enforces safety rules and regulations.
* Directs maintenance crew activities, such as placing shooting targets in designated area, repairing targets, keeping yards and grounds clean, and performing landscaping.
* May instruct new members on use of firearms.
* May act as judge in competition trap or skeet shooting meets.
* May repair skeet and trap-bird throwing machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates spinning lathe equipped with hydraulically controlled forming tools to spin (form) shaped articles from sheet or plate metal, compiling specifications from blueprints and knowledge of physical properties of metal. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts specified spinning chuck to machine spindle, manually or with power hoist, and bolts chuck in place, using handtools or power tools.
* Clamps metal disk to spinning chuck.
* Starts machine and coats rotating disk with spinning compound.
* Turns valve to set pressure applied to disk according to type of metal, shape of spinning chuck, speed of lathe, and thickness of metal disk.
* Moves feed pump levers that hydraulically control pressure applied by forming tool, reads pressure gauges to determine amount of pressure applied, and guides tool against disk to form disk over and into shape of spinning chuck.
* Resets position of forming tool on steady rest to form disk into shape.
* Replaces forming tool with cutting tool to trim excess metal from shaped part.
* Verifies dimension of finished article with verniers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends power press that cuts, punches, or stamps various size articles from sheets or blocks of materials. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts or clamps specified die to machine.
* Positions or clamps sheet or block of material on machine bed or in holding fixture to obtain maximum cuts from each sheet.
* Starts machine and depresses pedal or moves lever that rotates or forces cutting die through sheet or block to obtain article of specified size and shape.
* May tend machine that automatically feeds and positions material under die for cutting.
* May examine parts for defects, visually or using measuring gauges, and discards parts not meeting specifications.
* May be designated according to type of machine tended as blanking-machine operator; punch-press operator iv; stamping-press operator.
Industry:Professional careers
