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A professional who operates horizontal arbor press to disassemble and assemble press-fitted crawler track links for construction equipment, such as cranes, power shovels, and tractors. Respnsibilities include:
* Hooks hoist line in sling and directs other workers engaged in placing and removing crawler tracks on conveyor.
* Removes or tightens bolts fastening track pads to track links, using pneumatic or electric impact wrench.
* Examines chart to select specified insert jaws (holding fixture for pins and bushings) and disassembly and assembly rams.
* Inserts rams in press sockets, using wrench.
* Moves levers to position track over insert jaws, and to advance or retract rams that press pins and bushing into sockets on track links.
* Directs other workers engaged in removing or positioning track pads, track links, pins, and bushings in press insert jaws.
* Operates press to disassemble and reassemble track, and to replace worn or damaged pins and bushings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates rotating cylindrical-shaped stranding machine to fabricate wire rope or electric cable. Respnsibilities include:
* Places spools of wire of specified gauges into cradles, using electric hoist, and locks spool in place, using metal pin.
* Positions takeup spool onto shaft and adjusts travel of distributor to width of spool.
* Threads wires through holes on inside edge of machine and through twisting head and coils it around capstan, using blueprints or stranded wire as guide.
* Nails or hooks stranded wire onto takeup spool.
* Adjusts gears for specified direction of twist and speed of capstan, using wrenches.
* Starts machine.
* Pours grease into grease pot, and opens valve to lubricate strands.
* Adjusts clutch to regulate speed of makeup spool shaft.
* Observes machine to detect malfunctioning.
* Cuts wire when specified footage has been wound and wraps end with wire, by hand or using mechanical wrapping tool.
* May butt-weld ends of disjointed wires.
* When operating stranding machine equipped with closing (finishing) attachments to prevent unraveling when rope is cut, is known as Closer.
* May work with fine wire to produce twisted electric-light cord and be designated Strand Buncher, Fine Wire (light.
* fix.).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who keeps records of financial transactions for establishment, using calculator and computer. Responsibilities include:
* Verifies, allocates, and posts details of business transactions to subsidiary accounts in journals or computer files from documents, such as sales slips, invoices, receipts, check stubs, and computer printouts.
* Summarizes details in separate ledgers or computer files and transfers data to general ledger, using calculator or computer.
* Reconciles and balances accounts.
* May compile reports to show statistics, such as cash receipts and expenditures, accounts payable and receivable, profit and loss, and other items pertinent to operation of business.
* May calculate employee wages from plant records or time cards and prepare checks for payment of wages.
* May prepare withholding, Social Security, and other tax reports.
* May compute, type, and mail monthly statements to customers.
* May be designated according to kind of records of financial transactions kept, such as Accounts-Receivable Bookkeeper, and Accounts-Payable Bookkeeper.
* May complete records to or through trial balance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabrication of structural metal products, applying knowledge of layout, product design, machine setup, capacities and output, fitting, and welding procedures. Respnsibilities include:
* Analyzes work orders, workpiece, and blueprints to determine process, materials, machines, tooling, and sequence of operation.
* Assigns tasks to workers, and specifies methods of coordinating workflow to meet production schedules.
* Sets up machines, such as bending machines, spot welders, punch presses, drill presses, and brakes.
* Instructs workers in operation of machines.
* Inspects finished pieces visually and using precision measuring devices as rules, gauges, squares, and micrometers.
* Supervises such processes as fabricating, welding, stock handling, and assembling.
* Investigates malfunction of machines and equipment to determine need for repair.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms longitudinal bends, rolls, beads, or embosses designs onto sheet metal strips to form items, such as molding, structural shapes, and weatherstripping. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts specified roller dies onto prepositioned spindles.
* Loads coils of strip onto feedrack.
* Turns knob to set footage meter and control which stops machine, or activates automatic shear.
* Threads end of coil into feed rolls.
* Starts machine to form and cut strip to specified length.
* Removes bundles of cut and finished pieces from machine bed.
* Inspects finished pieces visually or using fixed gauge.
* May weld together ends of feed coils to form continuous feed, using automatic butt welder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains propulsion engines and other engines and engine parts aboard ship. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines engine equipment, such as pumps, circulators, condensers, and steering engines to locate malfunctions, and dismantles and repairs defective equipment, using handtools and power tools.
* Makes engine replacement parts, such as slide valves, stay rods, and bolts, using metalworking machinery.
* Stands engineroom watch during specified periods, observing gauges to determine that operating conditions, such as temperatures, steam pressure, water and oil levels, and revolutions per minute are within specified ranges.
* Adjusts controls to maintain specified operating conditions.
* Records gauge readings in engineering log.
* Must be licensed by U.S.
* Coast Guard.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cutting, leveling, shearing, threading, and punching steel products, such as bars, rounds, pipe, plate, and strip to specified patterns or shapes.
* Trains workers in operation of shears, and pipe cutting and threading machines.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and installs dies into power presses to punch, notch, cut blanks, form or draw metal plates, strips, sheets, or blanks. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions, aligns, and locks specified dies into machine ram and bed.
* Sets stops, guides, or installs jigs or fixtures for positioning workpiece.
* Adjusts depth and pressure of stroke.
* Operates press machine to verify functioning of dies.
* Examines stamped out metal parts to detect malfunctioning machine and defect in dies.
* May sharpen dies, using grinding machine.
* May assemble, align, and install progressive dies.
* May set up automatic punch presses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates one or more automatic machines to reduce shanks of forged bolt blanks preparatory to thread rolling, and to trim excess metal from bolt-blank heads. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs dies in machine, using wrenches, rule, and pry bar.
* Visually sets ram stroke by turning adjusting screw of ram-stroke-controlling arm.
* Synchronizes knock-out pin with back stroke of ram by turning knock-out pin adjustment screw.
* Visually adjusts stock transfer arm to feed blanks to transfer finger.
* Adjusts transfer finger to accommodate stock and centers transfer finger over die opening by turning adjusting screw.
* Fills feed hopper with bolt blanks and starts machine.
* Measures shank and head of trial blanks with micrometer or rule and adjusts dies and stops to maintain specified dimensions.
* May signal worker to fill feed hopper with stock.
* May set up machine for production-machine tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs, services, and adjusts hydraulic presses used to extrude wire for swaging into bullet slugs. Respnsibilities include:
* Operates press to determine cause of defective operation and replaces parts, using handtools, such as wrenches, pliers, and screwdrivers.
* Removes dies and sets up and adjusts new dies.
* Fabricates replacement parts from stock materials, using broken parts as patterns.
Industry:Professional careers
