- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who adjusts hydraulic brakes on automotive vehicles, such as automobiles, buses, and trucks. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes level of brake fluid in master cylinder of braking system and adds brake fluid to prescribed level.
* Raises vehicle, using power hoist or jack.
* Turns toothed wheel on brakeshoe adjustment turnbuckle to set specified distance between brakeshoes and brakedrum, using handtool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs railroad-car air compressors and compressor motors, following wiring diagrams and using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Disassembles compressor and examines parts for wear or breakage.
* Cleans parts and installs new piston rings and wrist pins.
* Replaces worn bearings, armatures, field coils, gears, and pinions in electric motors, following wiring diagram.
* Reassembles compressor and connects compressor to compressed air and electrical outlets to test operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and rebuilds textile machinery and equipment, using handtools and measuring instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts parts, such as rollers and cylinders, using wrenches and thickness gauges.
* Aligns and levels spinning, twisting, and slubber frames, using straightedge, level, and plumb bob.
* May install or move machinery.
* May set up machines.
* May plumb spindles on spinning or twisting frames.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who aligns wheels, axles, frames, torsion bars, and steering mechanisms of automotive vehicles, such as automobiles, buses, and trucks. Respnsibilities include:
* Drives automotive vehicle onto wheel alignment rack and tests vehicle for faulty wheel alignment, bent axle, worn ball joints, and bent steering rods, using alignment-testing machine.
* Straightens axle and steering rods and adjusts shims, tie rods, and joining pins to align wheels, or installs new parts, using handtools.
* Places wheel on balancing machine to determine where counterweights must be added to balance wheel.
* Hammers counterweights onto rim of wheel.
* Installs shock absorbers.
* Straightens frame, using hydraulic jack, chassis aligner, and acetylene torch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who converts vehicle fuel systems from gasoline to butane gas operation, using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Dismantles and removes existing gasoline-powered fuel systems from vehicles.
* Affixes mounting brackets or cradle to rear of vehicle, bolts high pressure butane gas tank to brackets, and installs high pressure vaporizers under hood, using handtools.
* Attaches butane carburetor and adapter to existing vehicle carburetor, or replaces original carburetor with butane one.
* Connects water and fuel lines between specified units.
* Tunes motor to conform to butane performance specifications to obtain maximum power and economy and to meet emission standards.
* May repair and service operating butane fuel units.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities concerned with utilization and work of labor pool in industrial establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects plant buildings, structures, and grounds and reviews human resource requests from other departments for workers to perform such work as cleaning tanks, digging ditches, or assisting craft workers, in order to plan labor pool utilization and establish priorities, projects, and schedules.
* Confers with subordinate supervisory personnel on status of on-going projects and number of workers required in order to determine allocation and assignment of human resources in labor pool.
* Assigns supervisory personnel and workers to perform work requested, complete on-going projects, or to assist craft workers, considering such factors as priority of project or work, type of work, and available human resources in labor pool.
* Inspects projects to ensure work performed meets standards and that workers are observing established safety rules and regulations for type of work being performed.
* Reassigns workers to meet unforeseen emergencies or work requests.
* Prepares activity reports on utilization of labor pool human resources, status of projects, and workers assigned work with other departments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies width of first plate rolled on roughing mill, using width gauge. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets gauge for specified width.
* Places gauge on first plate rolled to determine conformance to specifications and signals mill operator to continue rolling process.
* Moves steam-jet controls and throws salt on plates to loosen scale during rolling operation.
* Removes scale from plates and work area with scraper and shovel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes defects, and adjusts or repairs electrical and mechanical systems of outboard motors. Respnsibilities include:
* Disassembles and inspects motor for defective parts, using mechanic's handtools and gauges.
* Replaces parts, such as gears, magneto points, piston rings, and spark plugs, and reassembles engine.
* Adjusts carburetor mixture and electrical point settings while motor is running in water-filled test tank.
* May change propeller to increase motor efficiency, based on size and shape of boat hull.
* May install or repair steering and throttle controls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and maintains control records and related files to release blueprints, drawings, and engineering documents to manufacturing and other operating departments. Responsibilities include:
* Examines documents, such as blueprints, drawings, change orders, and specifications to verify completeness and accuracy of data.
* Confers with document originators or engineering liaison personnel to resolve discrepancies and compiles required changes to documents.
* Posts changes to computerized or manual control records, releases documents, and notifies affected departments.
* Maintains related files.
* May prepare requests for reproduction of documents.
* May operate reproduction equipment.
* May prepare reports and memorandums.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates rolling machine to bend metal plates, sheets, or bars into arcs, cylinders, or cones, using blueprints, templates, and knowledge of geometry and physical properties of metal to set up machine and plan sequence of operations. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls lever to lift upper roll, and positions workpiece into machine manually, or using crane.
* Lowers rolls and turns nuts or handwheel to lock roll into machine, and to adjust to thickness of metal if operating block (pinch) roll.
* Turns handwheel to adjust roll to set degree of curvature of initial pass.
* Starts machine and sets feed speed of workpiece back and forth between rolls.
* Adjusts roll between each pass to form workpiece into specified shape.
* Hammers workpiece to align it between rolls.
* Measures arcs with template.
* May set adjustment roll at angle to form conical shapes.
* May adjust roll to straighten warped or bent bars or plates.
* May preheat metal, using hand torch or heating furnace.
* May prebend heavy metal or bars, using bull press or bulldozer.
* May operate horizontal or vertical roll-forming machine to straighten or bend angles, bars, or channels into rings or arcs and be designated Angle-Roll Operator.
* May operate rolling machine to bend sheet metal to specified curvature and be designated Roll Operator, Sheet Metal.
* May operate vertical roll machine and adjust elevation of roller tables to support workpiece and be designated Vertical-Roll Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
