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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in sanding, washing, inspecting, and assembling plate glass sheets for use as molds (cells) in casting plastic sheets.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in sanding, washing, inspecting, and assembling plate glass sheets for use as molds (cells) in casting plastic sheets.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in unloading, storing, mixing, and melting raw materials, such as sand, soda ash, and cullet, to make molten glass for use in making flat glass, glass containers, optical glass, or glass fibers. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs unloading of hopper cars, storage of ingredients in bins and silos, and examination of ingredients prior to mixing.
* Schedules mixing and melting of materials to manufacture particular color and composition of glass.
* Ensures mixtures are blended to specifications, using knowledge of raw ingredient mixtures for type of glass produced.
* Reads gauges, charts, and dials to determine if fuel consumption rates, air-to-gas ratios, atmospheric conditions, temperatures, and glass levels in furnace are within specified ranges applying knowledge of glass manufacturing or production specifications for kind of glass produced.
* Adjusts controls or directs subordinates to make corrective adjustments.
* Records amounts and types of ingredients used and in stock.
* Performs other duties described under supervisor master title.
* May analyze raw materials and molten glass to determine if they are of acceptable quality.
* May regulate temperatures of annealing lehrs that control cooling of glass.
* May regulate homogenizer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in manufacturing concrete products and delivering ready-mix concrete. Respnsibilities include:
* Quotes prices and receives orders for company products, such as ready-mix concrete, pipes, utility vaults, or septic tanks.
* Confers with plant production and yard personnel to establish delivery schedules according to factors, such as truck capacities, distances to delivery site, and unloading time.
* Computes amount of water to be added to each mix of concrete, using moisture meter, to determine moisture content of sand and following moisture mix table.
* Records quantity of sand, cement, gravel, and water required for each mix on loading ticket for use by concrete-batch-plant operator.
* Prepares invoices, delivery tickets, and related shipping documents and assigns drivers for scheduled deliveries.
* Receives cash payments for shipments from drivers and prepares reports of cash and charge sales.
* Posts transactions to customers' accounts and issues customers account statements to customers.
* Maintains payroll and driver expense records.
* Maintains radio contact with drivers to expedite deliveries.
* Performs other tasks as described under supervisor master title.
* May direct production workers to cast concrete products according to customer specifications.
* May be designated ready-mix plant dispatcher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests and inspects gypsum and gypsum wallboard during manufacture, using variety of testing devices and procedures to maintain product quality. Respnsibilities include:
* Collects, measures, and weighs samples of minerals and chemical additives, such as gypsum and vermiculite.
* Performs tests on samples, using such equipment as ovens and molds, and performs calculations to measure such factors as gypsum purity, particle size, and hardness, applying arithmetic formula.
* Tests wallboard panels to verify factors, such as adhesion of paper to gypsum, edge hardness, and strength of panels.
* Observes designated worker performing standard wallboard tests and measurements, reads results, duplicates tests, and compares test results and measurements to verify accuracy of measurement.
* Collects and records results of sampling and testing to maintain record of product quality.
* Inspects wallboard at job sites to substantiate customer's claim of product defects.
* Formulates compensation offers to resolve claims and submits offer to management for approval.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts mixers, feeders, rollers, cutters, and other equipment to fabricate wallboard and lath. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets edging bars, rollers, and scoring cutters to ensure that wallboard produced attains specified width and thickness, using rules, gauges, and handtools.
* Adjusts paper guides, glue feeders, chamfering wheels, and stenciling machine so that board edges will be smoothly sealed and markings legible and evenly spaced.
* Regulates flow of material into mixing machine.
* Observes machine operations and adjusts setup on basis of factors, such as atmospheric conditions, slurry composition, and line-speed requirements.
* May test slurry for consistency, using scale and by feeling it.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls grinding mills, kettles, and conveyors to grind and dehydrate gypsum rock and transfer gypsum to storage bins or pulverizing machine. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens storage bin gates to admit rock into grinding mill and starts mill.
* Feels ground rock to determine consistency and adjusts mill as required to obtain specified consistency.
* Opens chute to allow ground rock to flow into kettle.
* Lights fire under kettle.
* Reads temperature gauge and regulates fuel feed valve to maintain specified temperature inside kettle.
* Collects sample of calcined gypsum for laboratory analysis.
* Opens chute after specified time and turns air valve to force calcined gypsum into hot pits for cooling.
* Starts bucket elevators and conveyors to move gypsum from pits to storage bins or to ball mill for pulverizing.
* May operate rotary drier to dry gypsum rock before calcination.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates water-cooled cupola furnace and related equipment to melt coke, slag, basalt, lime, and silica into molten mineral, and spins molten mineral into mineral wool fibers. Respnsibilities include:
* Lights fire in furnace to melt charge.
* Reads gauges and turns valves to regulate water and steam pressure.
* Observes melting of ingredients in furnace through porthole, and adjusts airblast on flaming coke bed to control intensity of heat and melting process.
* Activates spinning wheel.
* Removes taphole plug to allow molten stream to flow into water-cooled furnace trough, over high-pressure steam jet and into spinning wheel, to be spun into mineral wool fibers.
* Observes color intensity and flow of molten stream to determine suitability for spinning.
* Adjusts distance of steam ring and spinning wheel from end of trough to control length of spun fibers.
* Scrapes residue slag from trough and spinning wheel, using bar and scraper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and controls equipment to perforate, cut, and stencil plaster wallboard and convey board through kiln. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts perforator and knife according to specifications, using gauge and handtools.
* Inserts code letters in stenciling drum, using tweezers and fills drum with ink.
* Adjusts speed of roller and accelerator conveyors according to size of board.
* Sets speed of kiln conveyor for specified drying time.
* Inspects wallboard emerging from drying kiln for unsealed edges and surface blemishes.
* Removes defective wallboard from conveyor line.
* Measures and weighs wallboard samples for conformance to specifications, using rule, micrometer, and scale.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates glass lathe to form glass tubes into glass blanks used in fabrication of laser light conductors. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads work orders and technical manuals to determine lathe setup procedures, and pushes buttons and turns knobs to adjust lathe gas-injection and temperature controls.
* Locks glass tube into spindle chuck, using wrench.
* Trues and flares glass tube, using lathe carriage burner, ruler, and calipers.
* Attaches chemical spray nozzle to glass tube to coat interior of tube with gases, and inserts auger into tube to remove chemical residue.
* Lowers and locks spindle shield to form dust-free chamber.
* Presses keys on keyboard to transmit production specifications to computer and to transfer lathe operation from manual to automatic control for duration of blankmaking process.
* Observes lathe dials and gauges, computer display panel, and color of flame on lathe carriage burner to verify adherence to manufacturing specifications.
* Calculates data, such as blank weights, diameters, and densities, using calculator, and enters data on record sheet.
* Repairs lathe, using wrenches, pliers, and screwdrivers to correct malfunctions.
Industry:Professional careers
