- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machines that automatically cut and shape wire to make nails of specified size. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts coil of wire on rod, and threads wire through straightening rollers and feeding mechanism into slots of die plates.
* Tightens roller bolts to regulate feed of wire, using wrench.
* Starts machine.
* Inspects nails for such flaws as chips and distortions.
* Measures sample nail, using split gauge or micrometer, and notifies nail-making-machine setter of deviations from specifications.
* Records production data.
* May tend machines that automatically cut coiled wire and attach tackheads to form tacks of specified size.
* May tend machine that bends and cuts wire to form spokes for tricycle wheels and be designated Spoke Maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs manual and automatic transmissions in automobiles, buses, trucks, and other automotive vehicles. Respnsibilities include:
* Raises automotive vehicle, using jacks or hoists, and removes transmission, using mechanic's handtools.
* Disassembles transmission unit and replaces broken or worn parts, such as bands, gears, seals, and valves.
* Adjusts pumps, bands, and gears as required, using wrenches.
* Installs repaired transmission and fills it with specified fluid.
* Adjusts operating linkage and tests operation on road.
* May adjust carburetor.
* May verify idle speed of motor, using equipment, such as tachometer, making required adjustments.
* May specialize in repair of automatic transmissions and be designated Automatic-Transmission Mechanic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic swaging machines that form lead wire or slugs into bullets or cores for jacketed bullets. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads lead wire from reel over takeup pulleys and through feed mechanism and between forming wheels, or fills machine hopper with cylindrical lead slugs.
* Starts machine and observes feeding, forming, and ejecting mechanisms to detect malfunction.
* Examines finished pieces for malformation and scratches.
* Verifies weight, contour, and dimensions, using balance scale and fixed gauges.
* Mixes oil and kerosene in prescribed proportion and fills machine wells to lubricate lead wire or slugs.
* Notifies swaging-machine adjuster of machine malfunction.
* May make minor adjustments, such as replacing worn dies, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and adjusts or repairs engines, chassis, electrical systems, and interior furnishings of buses. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts engine and listens for indications of malfunctions.
* Tests engine components, such as carburetors, distributors, radiators, and fuel pumps, to determine causes of malfunctions, using timers, gauges, and other testing devices.
* Inspects chassis for defects in parts, such as universal joints, drive shaft, and air-suspension units.
* Inspects electrical systems and equipment and interior furnishings.
* May be designated according to specialty as chassis inspector; electrical inspector; engine inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs following duties to fabricate wire into cable. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions spools of wire on spindle of winding reel, using hoist.
* Turns handwheel or manually removes release rod to release shaft preparatory to installing takeup spool onto reel jack.
* May remove unused wire from spools with spool stripper.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates roughing mill stands under direction of rougher to reduce steel billets, blooms, or slabs to specified dimensions. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts roughing rolls and auxiliary equipment, such as conveyor tables, scalebreaker, and water sprays.
* Signals charger operator to discharge metal object from furnace preparatory to rolling.
* Moves controls to position metal on conveyor and guide it into rolls.
* Adjusts controls to regulate scalebreaker and water sprays that remove scale from metal.
* Installs guides in roughing stands and removes cobbles from rolling line.
* May assist other workers to change rolls, drag scrap, and pull spanners when mill is down.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs following duties to fabricate wire into cable. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions spools of wire on spindle of winding reel, using hoist.
* Turns handwheel or manually removes release rod to release shaft preparatory to installing takeup spool onto reel jack.
* May remove unused wire from spools with spool stripper.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that tests strength of chains. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts chain-holding jaws on machine to accommodate size of chain.
* Sets scale dial to specified pounds to regulate pulling power of machine.
* Positions chain in machine jaws and starts machine.
* Examines and gauges chain to detect broken or stretched links.
* May check chain for free operation, roll chain into coil, and place chain in crate.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains forge shop machinery, such as hammers, forging presses, rolls, upsetters, and furnaces, following blueprints, manufacturer's catalogs, and data chart specifications, using handtools, power tools, and precision measuring instruments, such as micrometer, calipers, rule, square, and gauges. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes machine in operation to determine malfunction.
* Disassembles machine, using handtools, and examines parts for defects.
* Obtains replacement parts from stock or prepares sketches of parts for fabrication in forge shop or machine shop.
* Welds broken or cracked metal parts.
* Replaces drophammer boards and adjusts steam, pneumatic, hydraulic, fuel, and blower controls of presses, hammers, and furnaces, using handtools.
* Fits parts together to reassemble machine, using measuring instruments, files, handtools, and power tools, such as portable drills and grinders.
* Examines and repairs auxiliary equipment, such as pumps, valves, hoses, and compressors.
* Starts machine and observes operation to verify performance.
* May repair electrical components, such as switches and circuits.
* May set up machine for other workers.
* May be designated according to type of machine repaired as load-chain welding-machine repairer.
* May rebuild forging machinery and be designated machine rebuilder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates equipment to wind steel strip into coils as strip emerges from rolling mill or continuous annealing, pickling, or tempering lines. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves controls to synchronize coiling machine speed and action of machine guides, gates, and rolls with feed tables and conveyors.
* Examines strip surface for scale, weld defects, and specified oil coating.
* Verifies specified width and gauge of strip, using measuring tape and micrometer.
* Cuts strip into specified lengths, cuts defects from strip, and cuts excess metal from welds, using power shear and weld notcher.
* Moves controls to transfer coils onto conveyor for automatic bundling and piling.
* May assist mill crew in making roll changes and in adjusting or replacing equipment on rolling line, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
