- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who feeds crystalline or granular materials to conveyor system or feed hopper of rotary driers for drying. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts feed conveyor and shovels material onto moving belt, or adjusts controls of conveyor or feed hopper to regulate automatic feed according to instructions from equipment operator.
* May be designated according to materials fed as soda-drier feeder; sulfur feeder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists varnish maker in manufacturing varnish, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Transfers ingredients, such as gums, resin, turpentine, and oils from storage to work area, using handtruck.
* Weighs specified amounts of dry materials and shovels or dumps them into kettles or vessels.
* Measures liquids in receptacle and pours them into kettles or supply tanks.
* Mixes ingredients in kettles with paddle.
* Cleans kettles and other equipment, using high-pressure hose, solvents, and brushes.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs variety of manual duties in drying and storing chemical materials, as directed. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to fill sample bottles for laboratory testing.
* Inspects product through sight glasses at various stages of drying process to detect malfunctions.
* Inspects equipment and piping for leaks or malfunctions.
* Notifies equipment operator or supervisor of unusual conditions.
* Lowers gauge tape into storage towers to facilitate inventory and production control.
* Records gauge readings on operating record.
* Cleans equipment, using hose and water.
* May be designated according to type of drier as spray-drier-operator helper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in polishing surfaces of plastic sheets to remove scratches, masking sheets preparatory to shipment, and weighing and tagging sheets.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine, alone or as member of crew, to coat, impregnate, imprint, or form rubber sheeting or rubberized fabric. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns steam valves to regulate heat or rolls, judging heat by action of rubber and by feeling rolls with hand.
* Turns handwheels or capstan bar to adjust distance between rolls.
* Verifies thickness of calendered material, using gauges.
* Threads fabric or rubber sheeting around and between rollers, through coating reservoirs or water coolant tanks, and onto pickup reel core or takeoff conveyor.
* Adjusts knives that trim selvage or cut material to specified width by moving knives along bar and turning setscrews, or replaces numbered rack (set) of knives, using wrenches.
* Adjusts weights on arms of holders so knives will press against rolls and cut through thickness of material processed.
* Observes calendered material for defects, such as bubbles, lumps, streaks, and pitting, and marks defects.
* May direct other workers who feed stock, change takeup reels, take off and inspect stamped parts, and place them in books, boards, and frames.
* May be designated according to material calendered as calender operator, fabric; calender operator, gum stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine, alone or as member of crew, to coat, impregnate, imprint, or form rubber sheeting or rubberized fabric. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns steam valves to regulate heat or rolls, judging heat by action of rubber and by feeling rolls with hand.
* Turns handwheels or capstan bar to adjust distance between rolls.
* Verifies thickness of calendered material, using gauges.
* Threads fabric or rubber sheeting around and between rollers, through coating reservoirs or water coolant tanks, and onto pickup reel core or takeoff conveyor.
* Adjusts knives that trim selvage or cut material to specified width by moving knives along bar and turning setscrews, or replaces numbered rack (set) of knives, using wrenches.
* Adjusts weights on arms of holders so knives will press against rolls and cut through thickness of material processed.
* Observes calendered material for defects, such as bubbles, lumps, streaks, and pitting, and marks defects.
* May direct other workers who feed stock, change takeup reels, take off and inspect stamped parts, and place them in books, boards, and frames.
* May be designated according to material calendered as calender operator, fabric; calender operator, gum stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machinery to spread synthetic resins and glass fibers over continuous sheet of plastics film to prepare materials for subsequent molding. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves controls to set and regulate width of sheet and to adjust line speeds with flow rate of materials.
* Moves plungers to start flow of synthetic resin solution through metering device (material buckets).
* Observes gauges and starts pumps and degassing system on supply tanks to regulate pressure.
* Inserts thermometer in synthetic resin to verify temperature.
* Observes tachometers, flowmeters, and gauges to verify specified process conditions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that coats uncured rubber or rubber-coated fabric strips and winds them on drum to make straps for rubber footwear. Respnsibilities include:
* Computes number and kind of books required, and keeps production chart.
* Places strip at back of drum, threads end through guides and cement-filled reservoir, and inserts end in groove of drum to secure it.
* Turns handwheel to regulate machine speed and starts machine that winds strip onto drum so that each turn abuts and adheres to edge of one previously wound.
* Stops machine when drum is filled and pulls knife along drum groove and across wound strip to form sheet of strips.
* Pulls sheet from drum onto cutting table, using stick, and cuts sheets into strips of specified length with knife, using triangular cutting bar as guide.
* Lifts rows of cut strips with stick and places them in book.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that automatically fold uncured rubber strip or coated friction tape over parallel reinforcing cords to form strap material to which buckles, eyelets, or snaps are attached for use on rubber footwear. Respnsibilities include:
* Calculates from work orders width, length, and quantity of stock to be made and prepares production schedule.
* Selects cord, strip or tape, and folding attachment according to work ticket.
* Mounts spools of cord on spindles and roll of strip or tape on arbor.
* Attaches folder to machine bracket by turning thumbscrews or using screwdriver.
* Cuts end of tape on bias, using scissors, and threads tip and cord through folder.
* Threads folded strap through paired rollers that press down folded edges.
* Positions carton at discharge end, starts machine, and runs strap material into carton.
* May fold and wind strip into rolls for cutting into straps by strap-cutting-machine operator, using pedal-operated machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tanks and related equipment that coats cathode screens with asbestos for use in electrolytic cells. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valve to fill cathode tank with caustic liquor.
* Weighs out prescribed quantity of asbestos and dumps it into tank.
* Starts air compressor and opens valve to force asbestos and cell liquor to mixing tank and return it to cathode tank after agitation for specified time.
* Draws sample of resulting slurry and determines specific gravity, using hydrometer.
* Positions cathode screen over cathode tank, using crane.
* Connects vacuum hose to cathode and lowers cathode into tank for asbestos coating, using hoist.
* Observes vacuum gauge to determine number of dips or immersion time necessary to apply asbestos coating of specified thickness to cathode.
* Applies asbestos tape to secure cathode rim.
* Transfers coated cathode to drying area, using crane.
* Records number of cathodes coated, immersion and drying time, and quantity of materials used.
* May tin cathode bars, using tinning compound.
* May cut asbestos paper to size and cover screens and plates with new linings.
Industry:Professional careers
