- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who detaches clamping devices and stacks glued veneer panels after removal from cold press, working as member of team. Respnsibilities include:
* Loosens turn buckles with metal rod and removes retaining rod attached to rails at top and bottom of stack.
* Removes top rail from stack and stacks veneer panels and caul boards on separate handtrucks.
* Pushes handtruck with veneer panels to drying oven or storage area for drying.
* May separate layers of veneer panels with spacer sticks.
* May clean glue from caul boards, using scraper.
* May be known according to specific task performed as Veneer Stacker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who washes loose dirt, gravel, or stones from bark of logs being drawn up slip or chute from pond to deck, using high-pressure waterhose (in many mills this work is accomplished by mechanical sprayers).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who washes screens and cauls of press machine with caustic soda and water, using brush and hose.
* Moves parts to and from press machine, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts and stacks cork sheets, used for making cork gaskets, according to size.
* Examines sheets and rejects those with defects, such as cracks or holes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts bark spots, knots, and diseased and decayed portions from logs or wood blocks, using spudder, ax, hatchet, or portable power saw, to prepare wood for further processing.
* Turns logs and blocks with peavey to expose underside.
* May straighten logs on conveyor, using pike pole.
* May load cleaned blocks on conveyors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects sheets or strips of veneer for color, texture of grain, and knots, wormholes, cracks, or unsanded spots.
* Marks grade on individual sheets on conveyor or on top sheet of stack, according to prescribed standard.
* Discards unacceptable panels.
* Records number of sheets inspected by grade on tally sheet.
* When examining and grading plywood, is known as Plywood-Stock Grader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in production of casting slip and plastic clay used in forming pottery and porcelain ware. Respnsibilities include:
* Gives workers directions in blending, mixing, filtering, and pugging clay.
* Inspects slip and plastic clay for specified composition, weight, specific gravity, and plasticity.
* Sets up and adjusts mixing and screen machines, filter-presses, pug mills, pumps, and storage tanks.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in transporting and mixing ingredients to make concrete. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs workers engaged in transferring sand and gravel aggregates by crane or other conveyor from barges and trucks to storage piles or bins.
* Reads specification sheets to determine sizes of aggregates and proportions of cement and water required for batch of concrete.
* Signals workers to charge mixing drums with specified amounts of ingredients and discharge mixed concrete into truck or other conveyor.
* May supervise workers engaged in assembling and dismantling plant at construction site.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in transporting and mixing ingredients to make concrete. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs workers engaged in transferring sand and gravel aggregates by crane or other conveyor from barges and trucks to storage piles or bins.
* Reads specification sheets to determine sizes of aggregates and proportions of cement and water required for batch of concrete.
* Signals workers to charge mixing drums with specified amounts of ingredients and discharge mixed concrete into truck or other conveyor.
* May supervise workers engaged in assembling and dismantling plant at construction site.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating machines to grind, crush, mix, and blend materials to make batches of clay for pressing into clay products.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
