- Industry: Government; Labor
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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
A professional who tends tank in which catalytic material is impregnated with liquid chemicals for use in manufacturing butadiene. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs specified quantity of catalyst and dumps it into tank containing measured amounts of liquid chemicals.
* Turns steam valve to heat mixture in tank until boiling occurs, impregnating catalytic material.
* Determines specific gravity of mixture, using hydrometer, and adds specified types and quantities of reagents to attain prescribed specific gravity.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tank in which catalytic material is impregnated with liquid chemicals for use in manufacturing butadiene. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs specified quantity of catalyst and dumps it into tank containing measured amounts of liquid chemicals.
* Turns steam valve to heat mixture in tank until boiling occurs, impregnating catalytic material.
* Determines specific gravity of mixture, using hydrometer, and adds specified types and quantities of reagents to attain prescribed specific gravity.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to spool latex thread or wind latex ribbon into rolls. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes curing drum to position at spooling or winding equipment and fastens it in place.
* Attaches latex threads or ribbons from curing drum to spools or roll-winding equipment.
* Starts equipment that revolves curing drum to unwind goods and activates takeup equipment.
* Observes operation and adjusts speed of takeup to regulate tension.
* Straightens bent thread guides and ties broken threads.
* Removes and wraps filled spools or rolls, and packs them in carton for shipment.
* Weighs packed carton to determine yardage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to spool latex thread or wind latex ribbon into rolls. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes curing drum to position at spooling or winding equipment and fastens it in place.
* Attaches latex threads or ribbons from curing drum to spools or roll-winding equipment.
* Starts equipment that revolves curing drum to unwind goods and activates takeup equipment.
* Observes operation and adjusts speed of takeup to regulate tension.
* Straightens bent thread guides and ties broken threads.
* Removes and wraps filled spools or rolls, and packs them in carton for shipment.
* Weighs packed carton to determine yardage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends kiln and mixing tanks to recover lime from lime sludge and produce slaked lime from recovered lime. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes gauges and temperature charts on panel to detect variations in kiln temperature, amount of sludge in kiln, percentage of oxygen in kiln atmosphere, and rate that carbon dioxide is exhausted from kiln.
* Turns rheostats to regulate amount of sludge fed into kiln according to capacity of kiln.
* Adjusts dampers to maintain kiln at specified temperature.
* Turns rheostats to regulate intake fans according to percentage of oxygen in kiln and exhaust fans according to rate that sludge decomposes into quicklime and carbon dioxide.
* Starts conveyors to move quicklime from storage bins to dissolving tanks that automatically mix quicklime with water to form slaked lime.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends kiln and mixing tanks to recover lime from lime sludge and produce slaked lime from recovered lime. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes gauges and temperature charts on panel to detect variations in kiln temperature, amount of sludge in kiln, percentage of oxygen in kiln atmosphere, and rate that carbon dioxide is exhausted from kiln.
* Turns rheostats to regulate amount of sludge fed into kiln according to capacity of kiln.
* Adjusts dampers to maintain kiln at specified temperature.
* Turns rheostats to regulate intake fans according to percentage of oxygen in kiln and exhaust fans according to rate that sludge decomposes into quicklime and carbon dioxide.
* Starts conveyors to move quicklime from storage bins to dissolving tanks that automatically mix quicklime with water to form slaked lime.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that grinds, cooks, and presses flaxseed to make meal cakes for animal feed, and to obtain oil for use in making products, such as soap, paint, and varnish. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps flaxseed into grinding mill and starts mill to grind flaxseed into meal.
* Empties ground meal into tempering kettle.
* Turns valves to regulate and maintain specified temperature and moisture content in kettle.
* Opens valve to dump cooked meal between mats to form cakes.
* Places mats in hydraulic press.
* Starts press that lowers ram and presses oil from cakes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that grinds, cooks, and presses flaxseed to make meal cakes for animal feed, and to obtain oil for use in making products, such as soap, paint, and varnish. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps flaxseed into grinding mill and starts mill to grind flaxseed into meal.
* Empties ground meal into tempering kettle.
* Turns valves to regulate and maintain specified temperature and moisture content in kettle.
* Opens valve to dump cooked meal between mats to form cakes.
* Places mats in hydraulic press.
* Starts press that lowers ram and presses oil from cakes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes materials and tends equipment to form kaolin into noodle-like strips, for use as catalyst in production of ethylene from alcohol. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps specified amount of kaolin into mixing trough, using wheelbarrow.
* Adds water until specified consistency is attained and mixes materials, using hoe, until mixture appears suitable for extrusion.
* Starts pug mill (extruder) and shovels mix into mill that extrudes kaolin mixture into noodles of specified length and thickness.
* Places noodles on trays and loads trays into oven or drier for prescribed time.
* Removes cooked noodles and stacks them in piles for later use.
Industry:Professional careers
