- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who makes preflight, inflight, and postflight inspections, adjustments, and minor repairs to ensure safe and efficient operation of aircraft. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects aircraft prior to takeoff for defects, such as fuel or oil leaks and malfunctions in electrical, hydraulic, or pressurization systems, according to preflight checklist.
* Verifies passenger and cargo distribution and amount of fuel to ensure that weight and balance specifications are met.
* Monitors control panel to verify aircraft performance, and regulates engine speed according to instructions of airplane pilot, commercial.
* Makes inflight repairs, such as replacing fuses, adjusting instruments, and freeing jammed flight control cables, using handtools, or takes emergency measures to compensate for failure of equipment, such as autopilot, wing heaters, and electrical and hydraulic systems.
* Monitors fuel gauges and computes rate of fuel consumption.
* Keeps log of fuel consumption and engine performance.
* Records malfunctions which were not corrected during flight and reports needed repairs to ground maintenance personnel.
* May perform repairs upon completion of flight.
* Must be licensed by Federal Aviation Administration.
* May be required to be licensed airframe-and-power-plant mechanic or airplane pilot, commercial.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that joins flexible upright arms of desk lamps to metal bases. Respnsibilities include:
* Clamps flexible arm in vise of machine and positions hole in lamp base over flexible arm.
* Depresses pedal, causing hammer of machine to repeatedly strike flexible arm to flatten and expand arm, securing arm to lamp base.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in inspecting, dismantling, testing, rebuilding, and storing oil field tools and equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews drilling schedules and assigns worker activities.
* Inspects repaired equipment for conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments.
* Requisitions replacement parts.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up battery of machines that automatically cut and shape coiled wire to make nails of specified sizes. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs and secures die plates and nail-point cutting knives, and positions feeding mechanism, according to work order specifications, using handtools.
* Mounts coil of wire on rod and threads wire through straightening rollers, feeding mechanism, and into slots of die plates.
* Tightens roller bolts to secure wire, using wrench, and turns flywheel to produce sample nail.
* Measures nail with split gauge or micrometer, and inspects nail for flaws, such as chips and distortions.
* Starts machine and observes operation to ensure product meets specifications.
* May set up and maintain battery of machines that automatically cut coiled wire and simultaneously attach nailheads to cut wire to form tacks of specified size.
* May supervise nail-making-machine tenders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dismantles wrecked and other decommissioned aircraft and salvages parts and equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes wings, tails, engines, landing gear, instruments and other repairable parts, using handtools.
* Dismantles condemned equipment, retaining usable parts.
* Cleans salvaged parts in solvent and coats with grease or other preservative, using swab, brush, or spray gun.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes operation of diesel engines and components, such as blowers and compressors to determine performance using engineering specifications and test equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns and connects engine to test equipment, such as generator and motor control panel.
* Connects oil, fuel, and waterlines to engine.
* Attaches thermocouple wires to various parts of engine and records temperature readings of oil, water, and bearings from pyrometer.
* Holds tachometer to turning shaft to determine engine revolutions per minute at various governor settings.
* Measures pressures on compressors and blowers.
* Replaces defective parts and adjusts settings on injection pumps, timing, fuel racks, and governor, using dial indicator, micrometer, feeler gauges, and handtools.
* Logs information for engineering and inspection department.
* May disassemble and repair powerplant engines and perform field service work.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who renovates used cars for resale at used car lot. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects cars for noticeable defects, such as dents, scratches, torn upholstery, and poor mechanical operation.
* Hammers out dents.
* Polishes scratches and retouches with enamel.
* Sews rips and tears in upholstery.
* Cleans and vacuums interiors.
* Washes and polishes exteriors.
* Replaces missing or defective small parts.
* Performs minor mechanical repairs and adjustments.
* May inspect cars for compliance with state safety regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine equipped with separate sections that cut-to-length, punch, and notch or trim structural shapes and plates. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions specified punch and die set and turns pressure screws to lock them into ram and bed of machine to set up punching section.
* Positions specified cutting blades into cutting slot, and notching dies or shear blades into ram and bed of machine, and turns pressure or clamp screws to lock them in place to set up cutoff, and trimming-and-notching sections of machine.
* Measures workpiece with rule or tape, or traces from template to locate holes or cutting lines as specified by work order, and marks them with scribe, soapstone, or centerpunch.
* Pulls lever to engage power to section used.
* Positions workpiece into cutting slot, or under punch, die, or trim blade, and aligns punch or blade with layout marks.
* Pulls lever or depresses pedal to activate machine.
* Sets stops or positions guide jigs to specified point on built-in scale when several pieces are worked.
* May tend different sections of machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who adjusts and repairs automotive repairing, servicing, and testing equipment, using handtools and power tools. Respnsibilities include:
* Disassembles defective equipment, such as gasoline pumps, air compressors, and dynamometers.
* Replaces defective parts, using pipe fitting and welding tools.
* Reassembles, adjusts, and tests repaired equipment.
* May be required to register with government agency to adjust meters and gauges of fuel and oil pumps serving public.
* May install new equipment.
* May specialize in repairing gasoline pumps, lubrication equipment, air compressors, or other type of automotive service equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
