- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who sorts glazed tile according to color shades and defects. Respnsibilities include:
* Picks up tile from tray, compares it against color shades on color sample board, and sorts it according to shade variations.
* Examines tile for defects, such as cracks, spots, warping, and dents, and grades it according to quality.
* Keeps records of tile rejected.
* May pack tile in cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts glazed tile according to color shades and defects. Respnsibilities include:
* Picks up tile from tray, compares it against color shades on color sample board, and sorts it according to shade variations.
* Examines tile for defects, such as cracks, spots, warping, and dents, and grades it according to quality.
* Keeps records of tile rejected.
* May pack tile in cartons.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in applying glaze to bisque or greenware and drying ware prior to firing. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects sprayed, dipped, or dried ware for defects in glaze coating and weighs sample ware for conformance to specifications.
* Verifies viscosity of glaze, using viscometer.
* Issues instructions or adjusts controls of processing equipment to correct glaze defects.
* Performs other duties described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating silvering range to manufacture mirrors. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes washing, silvering, painting, and drying processes, and inspects mirrors for quality.
* Determines surface temperature of mirrors after drying, using pyrometer.
* Observes pressure gauges and thermometers on conveyors to verify specified water temperature and air pressures.
* Turns heat control button to regulate oven temperature.
* Maintains record of chemicals used in preparing silver and copper solutions.
* May weigh or examine painted glass sample to determine density of paint.
* May operate silvering unit of silvering range.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in washing, silvering and painting by hand, cleaning, and inspecting glass used in manufacture of mirrors. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects washed, silvered, and painted glass to detect faulty wash-water or chemical solutions, and uneven paint, silver, or copper coatings.
* Observes drying-oven thermometer to verify specified oven temperature.
* Weighs and measures chemical ingredients according to formula to prepare tin, silver, and copper solutions and reducing agents.
* Pours or combines chemicals in mixing tank, and transfers solution to storage tank.
* May wash, silver, paint, clean, or polish mirrors.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who classifies samples of glazed tile according to color shade, and prepares color sample for board for use by tile sorter. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects samples of burned tile and examines tile to determine number of shade variations in each lot.
* Assigns catalog number for each color variation.
* Mounts tile samples of each shade on board.
* Explains range of variations in each shade to tile sorter to ensure uniform sorting of shades.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to coat cloth, fiber, or paper with granules of abrasive material. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions machine guides and stops on machine bed according to size of base material, using rule or template.
* Turns screws to adjust valve openings to regulate thickness of abrasive coating sprinkled on base material.
* Dumps specified abrasive, such as flint, garnet, emery, or corundum into container on machine.
* Positions flat piece of base material on machine bed and against guides and stops.
* Starts machine and manually feeds base material through machine.
* Examines base material for uniformity and thickness of abrasive coating.
* May operate machine to coat rolls of base material with abrasive granules.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coats optical glass surfaces with silvering solutions to make mirrors used in optical instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Cleans glass specimens, using prescribed chemicals, and inspects to detect surface appearance defects.
* Mixes chemicals according to formula and pours solution into funnels.
* Positions glass under funnels and starts electric motor to agitate funnels and allow specified quantities of solution to distribute over surface of glass.
* Electroplates copper backing over silvering by immersing glass in electrolyte and passing electric current through solution according to standard procedure.
* Places plated glass in electric oven to dry for specified time.
* Marks outlines of specified dimensions on glass specimen, using milling machine.
* Removes excess silvering and copper, using hand scraper and solvents.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sprays back of mirror glass with silver or copper solution to coat glass, using spray gun. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to admit solution and reducing agents into spray gun and sprays surface of glass.
* Rinses glass with hose before and after application of solution to remove residue.
* Observes sprayed surface to detect spots, streaks, and residue coloring that indicate faulty mix or reducer burns.
* Transfers silvered or coppered glass from rack onto conveyor of drying ovens.
* May clean, polish, and frame mirrors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates silvering range to mix and spray tin, silver, and copper solutions on mirror glass. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs or measures chemical ingredients, following formula.
* Turns valves to admit steam and specified amount of water into mixing vat.
* Verifies water temperature and pours ingredients into vat.
* Starts power mixer to mix solutions for specified time.
* Turns valve to drain solutions into storage tanks.
* Starts unit of range and turns valves to start flow of solutions into spray heads.
* Observes silvering process to detect clogged sprays, uneven silver and copper coating, and imperfections, such as streaks and spots, and color of sludge, that indicate impure water or faulty copper and silver mix.
* Turns valves to regulate air pressure to sprayer and to maintain specified water temperature.
* Removes spray heads and pipes with wrenches and soaks spray heads in cleaning fluid.
* Records batches mixed and chemicals used.
* May measure and record thickness of silver coating, using gauge.
Industry:Professional careers
