- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who operates battery of machines to refine pulp and shorten fibers as pulp flows continuously through machines to prepare pulp for papermaking. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns handwheels to adjust distance between bedplate and rotor knives to obtain specified fineness of fibers.
* Starts machines and pumps to regulate flow of pulp from beater chests through refining machines to paper machine chest.
* Examines pulp, reviews laboratory test reports, and adjusts machines to ensure that pulp meets specifications.
* May change bedplates and rotor knives, using handtools.
* May clean interior of storage chests, using water hose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs following duties to facilitate making wallboard (plasterboard). Respnsibilities include:
* Puddles plaster slurry discharged from mixing machine, using puddling stick, and spreads it evenly for feeding into machine that combines slurry and paper into wallboard.
* Observes flow and squeezes flexible discharge nozzle (boot) of mixing machine to prevent formation of lumps in slurry.
* Scrapes hardened slurry from edge guides and smoothing bars.
* Scoops sample of slurry in cylinder, weighs it, and sets sample aside for specified period to determine consistency (slump).
* Places sample under testing needle that drops from specified height and indicates on dial depth of penetration to determine hardness (set) of core.
* Records test results and reports defects to supervisor.
* Clears jams on wallboard machine and cleans work area.
* Participates in splicing paper and in repairing wallboard and mixing machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs following duties to facilitate making wallboard (plasterboard). Respnsibilities include:
* Puddles plaster slurry discharged from mixing machine, using puddling stick, and spreads it evenly for feeding into machine that combines slurry and paper into wallboard.
* Observes flow and squeezes flexible discharge nozzle (boot) of mixing machine to prevent formation of lumps in slurry.
* Scrapes hardened slurry from edge guides and smoothing bars.
* Scoops sample of slurry in cylinder, weighs it, and sets sample aside for specified period to determine consistency (slump).
* Places sample under testing needle that drops from specified height and indicates on dial depth of penetration to determine hardness (set) of core.
* Records test results and reports defects to supervisor.
* Clears jams on wallboard machine and cleans work area.
* Participates in splicing paper and in repairing wallboard and mixing machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates hydropulper and batch reactor to blend woodpulp, plastic binders, and liquid fertilizers into slurry for use in molding synthetic soil blocks. Respnsibilities include:
* Fills hydropulper tank with water, adds woodpulp and measured amounts of chemicals, and starts agitator.
* Observes and records temperature, pressure, and time interval of agitation cycle.
* Pumps cooled pulp slurry to reactor tank and flushes hydropulper tank with water.
* Starts reactor, adjusts temperature and pressure controls, and adds measured amounts of liquid fertilizers and plastic binders.
* Tests acidity of solution by titration and adds ingredients as needed to attain prescribed level.
* Pumps mixed slurry to storage tank for further processing.
* Flushes reactor tank with water.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls beater engines and related equipment to process furnish for making paper, roofing felt, and related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps and adjusts valves to regulate flow of specified amount of slush pulp into vat.
* Starts engines and adjusts beater rolls to obtain specified degree of pulp fineness and hydration.
* Examines furnish for specified consistency and size of fibers.
* Dips sample from vat for laboratory testing.
* Starts pumps to transfer furnish to storage chests.
* May operate machine to refine pulp.
* May make freeness and acidity tests.
* May calculate volume and weight of furnish ingredients from technical control formulas.
* May mix and cook dyes for furnish.
* May control operation of battery of beaters and be designated Beater, Lead.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls beater engines and related equipment to process furnish for making paper, roofing felt, and related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps and adjusts valves to regulate flow of specified amount of slush pulp into vat.
* Starts engines and adjusts beater rolls to obtain specified degree of pulp fineness and hydration.
* Examines furnish for specified consistency and size of fibers.
* Dips sample from vat for laboratory testing.
* Starts pumps to transfer furnish to storage chests.
* May operate machine to refine pulp.
* May make freeness and acidity tests.
* May calculate volume and weight of furnish ingredients from technical control formulas.
* May mix and cook dyes for furnish.
* May control operation of battery of beaters and be designated Beater, Lead.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to grind logs or wood blocks into fibers used in making paper pulp, using one of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Opens slide gate, tosses wood into grinder pocket, and moves lever to actuate hydraulic piston that presses wood against revolving grindstones.
* (2) Adjusts panel controls to regulate conveyor system that feeds wood to hopper of grinder machines.
* Straightens wood in machine pocket or hopper to prevent jams, using picaroon. Turns valves to regulate spray of water to cool grindstones and to control consistency of pulp.
* Turns handwheel to raise or lower dam to control flow of pulp from discharge end of machine.
* Observes temperature gauge and color of pulp for evidence of burns caused by dull or broken grindstones and notifies wood grinder, head of defects.
* May be designated according to type of machine operated as Pocket-Grinder Operator (paper & pulp); Ring-Grinder Operator (paper & pulp).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends beaters and vats that prepare furnish for making paper, roofing felt, and related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to charge vats with specified amounts of slush pulp, fillers, size, and liquid chemicals.
* Weighs and dumps dry ingredients into vat according to formula.
* Dips furnish sample from vat for laboratory testing.
* Removes plug of vat to dump furnish into beater chest or starts pump to transfer furnish from vat to storage.
* Observes vat and beater operation and notifies beater engineer of malfunction.
* Cleans vat with water and hose and scrapes out adhering matter.
* May truck materials from storage.
* May weigh, mix, and cook dyes.
* May chip rust, scale, and other deposits from machine rolls, using airhammer.
* May truck sheet pulp and other materials from stockroom.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends beaters and vats that prepare furnish for making paper, roofing felt, and related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to charge vats with specified amounts of slush pulp, fillers, size, and liquid chemicals.
* Weighs and dumps dry ingredients into vat according to formula.
* Dips furnish sample from vat for laboratory testing.
* Removes plug of vat to dump furnish into beater chest or starts pump to transfer furnish from vat to storage.
* Observes vat and beater operation and notifies beater engineer of malfunction.
* Cleans vat with water and hose and scrapes out adhering matter.
* May truck materials from storage.
* May weigh, mix, and cook dyes.
* May chip rust, scale, and other deposits from machine rolls, using airhammer.
* May truck sheet pulp and other materials from stockroom.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends rag-cutting machine that cuts rags to specified size preparatory to processing into paper, roofing felt, or related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses buttons to actuate conveyor, cutters, and blowers.
* Observes movement of rags along conveyor to detect clogging or malfunctioning machine.
* Stops machine at sound of warning buzzer and removes clogged rags, using iron pry.
* Reports mechanical defects to supervisor.
* Lubricates, adjusts, and replaces worn blades of machine.
* May record amount of rags cut on daily production record.
Industry:Professional careers
