- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends equipment to color wax used in candles. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and dumps wax into kettles, according to specifications.
* Turns valves to circulate steam through jackets or turns thermostat knob to heat wax to specified temperature.
* Turns valve or starts pumps to transfer molten wax to tanks and kettles and adds prescribed dye to color wax.
* Pours wax into molds to form sample candles and examines candles to ensure compliance with specifications.
* Records quantities and types of wax used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who transports materials from storage areas, using handtruck. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs materials on platform scales and records weights.
* Loads materials in bags or in tubs on conveyor to transport them to blending machine.
* Raises and transports drums of liquid ingredients, such as oils, using hoist.
* Empties drums, using bung-wrench, and turns valves to admit liquid ingredients into tanks.
* Opens sacks with knife and empties dry materials, such as clay, carbon black, or glass filler, into blending machine.
* May press buttons to start agitator.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs dry chemicals in batches, records weights on process sheets, and transfers materials to mixing area, using handtruck.
* May collect samples of solutions for laboratory tests.
* May clean tanks, process lines, hoppers, and other equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes fertilizer samples preparatory to laboratory analysis. Respnsibilities include:
* Collects material from storage bin, railroad car, or bagging area, using auger or shovel.
* Dumps material onto mixing table.
* Blends material, using shovel, paddle, or hands.
* Pours blended sample into container, writes identifying information, such as material, date, and sample number, on label and attaches label to container.
* Collects samples of granulated fertilizer during various stages of processing, pours sample through riffle (separator) to mix and reduce amount to representative sample, and sends sample to laboratory for analysis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls chemical reaction vats and mixing equipment to compound pulp bleaching solution, following specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor and opens valve to dump specified quantities of lime or sodium hydroxide and water into mixing tank to make lime slurry.
* Starts pump and turns valve to start flow of chlorine and lime slurry to chlorinating tanks.
* Adjusts controls to regulate temperature of solution to prevent adverse chemical reactions.
* Starts mixing machine in tank to mix bleaching solution.
* Sprinkles indicator solution on top of mixture in tank or makes titration test to determine completion of chemical reaction.
* Starts pumps to transfer bleach solution to storage.
* May control reaction cells and absorption tower in which chlorine dioxide bleaching gas is formed from calcium chlorate and sulfurous acid.
* May operate conveyor to remove bulk lime from railroad cars to storage bins.
* May connect pipe and hose lines to tank cars containing chlorine gas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates tram car, suspended from monorail, beneath overhead storage bins to collect and weigh powdered chemicals in weighing bin, according to laboratory formulas, and empties assembled ingredients into chute of mixer. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves levers to drive electrically powered car from one bin to another and to raise accordionlike mouth of weighing bin to mouth of storage bin.
* Pulls lever to drop chemical from storage into weighing bin and observes scale until weight specified is reached.
* Moves car and repeats weighing until each specified ingredient is added.
* Scoops from barrels, and weighs and adds by hand, quantities of chemicals too small or too rarely used to warrant storing in bins.
* Positions bottom of weighing bin over mixer chute, and on all-clear-light from mixing-machine operator, depresses pedal to drop accumulated chemicals into mixer chute.
* Confers with mixing-machine operator to discuss changes in chemicals or quantities specified.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that blends batches of smokeless powder to obtain final product having uniform ballistic properties. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves levers in control room to activate rotation equipment or to transfer powder repeatedly between top and bottom bins to effect thorough mixing.
* Opens vent in bottom bin to dump powder into containers or buggies for storage, shipment, or further processing.
* May add or remove powders in rotating blender barrels, using hand scoop, to adjust mixture or remove sample.
* When tending machine equipped with toothed rotors to blend powder, is designated Macerator Operator.
* May be designated according to kind of powder blended as Tetryl-Blender Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixers that blend ingredients for use in production of hard-surface floor covering. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions charge chute on mixer and signals worker to charge machine with preweighed ingredients.
* Pulls lever to close mixer, starts mixing mechanism, and sets steam and temperature controls.
* Examines color and consistency of mix to determine whether ingredients are blended according to specifications.
* Starts machine drive to discharge mix into sheet mill or shovels mix into container.
* May pull lever of hydraulic dump cylinder to discharge mix into bucket of lift truck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes nitrogen, phosphate, and potash to produce fertilizer. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls lever to feed dry materials from storage hopper into mixer.
* Observes gauges and turns valves to admit specified amounts of liquids, such as ammonia and sulfuric acid, into mixer.
* Stops mixer after specified time and turns handwheel or pulls lever to dump batch onto conveyor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mottling machines that blend prescribed color mixes to achieve specified patterns or shade combinations for finished hard-surface floor covering. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects specified mix from storage area and moves mix to charging station, using handtruck.
* Divides panned mix into portions, according to formula, weighs fractional quantities on balance scale, and dumps them into hopper of machine.
* Weighs filler, whiting, and other material as specified, using floor scale, and dumps them into hopper.
* Sets timer on mottler for prescribed cycle, or examines mix periodically to determine when desired mottle has been achieved.
* Shovels mottled mix into trucks for delivery to storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
