- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends equipment that shrinks rubberized fabric sheeting or tubing to increase strength of material. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions reel of rubberized stock in letoff rack, by hand or using hoist.
* Adjusts stock guides and tension rollers on machine, using handtools, to accommodate stock.
* Dumps powdered soapstone in hopper of equipment to dust stock.
* Moves controls to regulate temperature of water in dip tank and speed of equipment.
* Threads rubberized fabric stock through machine.
* Starts equipment that moves stock through water bath, drying compartment, under soapstone dispenser, and onto windup reel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends fermenting tanks and auxiliary equipment to produce active constituent of antibiotic drug products. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts agitator fermenting and mixing tanks and adds prescribed quantities of ingredients, such as salt, sugar, and yeast.
* Turns valves and starts pumps to transfer mixture to fermenting tank and maintain specified temperature in tanks for prescribed time.
* Opens valves to admit water, liquid seed antibiotic, and foam-preventing oil, according to critical plant specifications.
* Unbolts lid of fermenter tank and measures level of solution, using dipstick.
* Turns valves to transfer mixture to crystallization tank for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that sprays thermoplastic resins onto conveyor belt to form plastic foam. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours catalysts and resins into machine hoppers and starts belt conveyor and resin pumps.
* Turns valves to start spray and synchronize spray with conveyor speed.
* Cuts solidified foam block to specified length, using handsaw.
* May cut foam block to specified thickness, using horizontal bandsaw.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loosens and removes dry glue or gelatin from drying frames by striking frame with whip or by placing frame upside down on vibrating table.
* Dumps glue or gelatin into hopper of grinding machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that freezes blood plasma preparatory to hydration or storage. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine that circulates solution of dry ice and alcohol over rollers to chill them.
* Moves blood plasma from walk-in freezer to freezing machine, using handtruck.
* Places bottles of blood plasma onto rotating rollers submerged in cold alcohol in machine.
* Taps revolving bottles with metal wand to accelerate and ensure uniform freezing of plasma, increasing speed of tapping on bottles when crystallization does not occur uniformly.
* Places bottles of plasma that do not freeze uniformly into reject container and frozen plasma on trays for further processing.
* Reads thermometer to ascertain that temperature of solution remains constant, according to specifications.
* May place bottles on rack to drain off alcohol before packing.
* May tend centrifuge machine that separates plasma from red corpuscles present in whole blood.
* May tend fractionator machine that breaks down plasma into proteins by centrifugal action.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that freezes blood plasma preparatory to hydration or storage. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine that circulates solution of dry ice and alcohol over rollers to chill them.
* Moves blood plasma from walk-in freezer to freezing machine, using handtruck.
* Places bottles of blood plasma onto rotating rollers submerged in cold alcohol in machine.
* Taps revolving bottles with metal wand to accelerate and ensure uniform freezing of plasma, increasing speed of tapping on bottles when crystallization does not occur uniformly.
* Places bottles of plasma that do not freeze uniformly into reject container and frozen plasma on trays for further processing.
* Reads thermometer to ascertain that temperature of solution remains constant, according to specifications.
* May place bottles on rack to drain off alcohol before packing.
* May tend centrifuge machine that separates plasma from red corpuscles present in whole blood.
* May tend fractionator machine that breaks down plasma into proteins by centrifugal action.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to make fuses for pyrotechnics. Respnsibilities include:
* Screens black powder to required fineness and pours it into hopper of spinning machine.
* Threads end of rolls of cotton roving into spindle of spinning machine.
* Starts machine that automatically spins strands of cotton yarn together and around a train of black powder to make fuses and winds fuses onto bobbins.
* Stops spinning machine and removes bobbins.
* Positions filled bobbins in holders of dope trough.
* Threads fuses over pulleys in dope trough and drying chamber, fastening ends of fuses to reels in drying chamber.
* Fills trough with dope and regulates temperature of drying chamber.
* Starts motor to pull fuses through dope and through heated chamber to dry dope-covered fuses and to wind fuses onto reels.
* Removes reels of dried fuse when automatic counter indicates that specified amount of fuse has been wound onto reel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends line of mills, conveyors, shakers, and filling machine to break, sift, and package dry glue or gelatin. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts mills, conveyors, and shakers equipped with screens of prescribed mesh size.
* Opens gate in chute of hopper and drops coarse material into mill.
* Observes line to detect malfunction or breakdown of machinery as material is milled, sifted, and loaded into tank of filling machine.
* Stops line when malfunctions occur.
* Places container below filling machine and clamps spout equipped with scale to container.
* Opens valve to fill spout to prescribed weight, observing scale.
* Closes valve and opens slide gate to drop glue into container.
* Pushes slide gate to close spout and seals container.
* May stack bags on skid.
* May use device (levelator) which levels each layer of bags with floor to facilitate stacking.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends line of mills, conveyors, shakers, and filling machine to break, sift, and package dry glue or gelatin. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts mills, conveyors, and shakers equipped with screens of prescribed mesh size.
* Opens gate in chute of hopper and drops coarse material into mill.
* Observes line to detect malfunction or breakdown of machinery as material is milled, sifted, and loaded into tank of filling machine.
* Stops line when malfunctions occur.
* Places container below filling machine and clamps spout equipped with scale to container.
* Opens valve to fill spout to prescribed weight, observing scale.
* Closes valve and opens slide gate to drop glue into container.
* Pushes slide gate to close spout and seals container.
* May stack bags on skid.
* May use device (levelator) which levels each layer of bags with floor to facilitate stacking.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes chemicals, dips buckets of golf balls into chemical solutions, and tends machines that tumble balls in solutions to vulcanize, etch, and cure covers preparatory to painting. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours specified amounts of chemicals and water into dip tanks.
* Fills dip buckets with balls and lifts bucket into tanks manually or using hoist.
* Moves bucket through series of dip tanks for specified time in each tank.
* Empties balls into storage boxes and moves boxes to curing room for specified time.
* Loads tumblers with balls and opens valves to fill tumbler with water.
* Measures and pours or pumps in specified amounts and types of chemicals.
* Runs tumblers for set time, empties solution, and fills and runs tumbler through rinse cycle.
* Repeats chemical treating and rinse cycles according to curing specifications.
* Empties balls into buckets and places balls on racks for storage in drying room.
* May test sample balls for compression.
Industry:Professional careers
