- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that coats wooden furniture panels with glue size and dries panels to raise grain and reveal defects. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes sizing solution according to specifications and pours solution in tank.
* Starts machine and places panels on conveyor that carries them under sizing spray or rollers and through drying cabinet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines in tandem that coat surfaces of decorative hardwood-veneer panels with stain, paint, or wax. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes stain according to formula, using graduated container, mixing drum, and portable mixer.
* Connects hoses of coating machines to containers of stain, paint, and wax.
* Measures thickness of panels, using steel tape, and turns handcranks to adjust coating machines.
* Moves controls to activate conveyors and pumps, to set thermostats on heating ovens, and to start sanding, roller-coating, and spray-coating machines.
* Compares processed panels with sample panel to verify adherence to specifications.
* Pumps cleaning solution through lines of machines upon completion of process; and replaces worn components, such as rollers, brushes, doctor blades, and sandpaper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that sprays and coats interior of smoking pipe bowls with mixture of charcoal, shellac, and alcohol. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours specified amounts of charcoal, shellac, and alcohol into agitator and mixes solution for specified period to prepare coating solution.
* Pours solution through filter into tank, replaces tank top, pulls lever to start machine pump, and turns handles to regulate pump pressure to specified setting.
* Attaches hose and spray nozzle to machine, using wrench and pliers.
* Reads work ticket to determine shape and size of pipe bowl to be processed.
* Places corresponding size of collar on machine spray nozzle.
* Positions and holds pipe bowl on collar, and depresses pedal to spray and coat inside of bowl with coating solution.
* Places coated pipe bowls in box for storage.
* Disassembles and cleans spray nozzle and hose, using wrench, pliers, methanol, rag, and brush.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pushes cars, loaded with halved and quartered logs, into steam tunnel that steams and softens fiber of wood before logs are cut into staves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coats cork products, such as floats, washers, and gaskets, with liquid resins. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours premeasured quantities of liquid ingredients into tumbler to prepare coating solution.
* Dumps cork products into solution to soak.
* Determines soaking cycle of products, using knowledge gained through experience.
* Scoops cork products from tumbler, drains off excess solution, using strainer, and dumps them into containers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in drying veneer sheets in kilns. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with supervisors of subsequent processes to determine grade and amount of veneer sheets required, and schedules production to meet priority orders and production quotas.
* Measures moisture content of dried veneer, using moisture meter, and adjusts conveyor and blower speeds when deviations from company standards are detected.
* Instructs and demonstrates methods of work to new employees.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in tending woodburning kilns that produce charcoal at briquette manufacturing establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines supply of cordwood to determine weight, size, and quality of wood to be loaded into kilns; and instructs workers in loading kilns.
* Starts fire in kiln fuel boxes, and directs workers to seal doors and adjust flue controls to regulate woodburning process.
* Supervises removal and transporting of charcoal from kilns to storage or shipping areas.
* May purchase cordwood from woodcutters at plant site for use in making charcoal.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls drying tunnels to condition and dry brick, sewer pipe, roofing tile, and other clay products before treatment in kiln. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production schedule to determine humidity and temperature required for size and type of product to be dried.
* Positions portable blowers in drying aisles to circulate heat and air.
* Closes tunnel doors and starts blowers and heaters to regulate humidity and temperature within tunnel.
* Examines products for cracks indicating excessive drying.
* Reads humidity and temperature gauges, and adjusts speed and dampers on blowers.
* Directs dry-kiln operator helper to cover product with tarpaulin or to flood aisles with water to retard drying process.
* Records gauge reading in logbook.
* May patch damaged products, using patching clay and handtools.
* May control tunnel kiln.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates series of beehive kilns to produce charcoal. Respnsibilities include:
* Places kindling in kiln and starts fire.
* Seals top of kiln when specified heat is attained, using cement and hand trowel.
* Observes color of smoke as it issues through draft holes in kiln bottom to ensure burning of charcoal as specified.
* Opens and closes draft holes, using bricks, to regulate forming of charcoal.
* Seals draft holes and cracks in kiln with cement to smother fire when charcoal has been formed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic bark press that squeezes water from pulpwood bark. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor and observes wet bark as it passes into hydraulic press.
* Pushes button to actuate press that squeezes water from bark and emits dried bark onto conveyor leading to boilerroom.
* Frees bark jammed on conveyor, using rake.
* Sweeps and cleans work area.
* May tend rotating cutter that cuts oversized bark to suitable size for feeding into press.
Industry:Professional careers
