- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in sorting, cleaning, cutting, garnetting, and packaging waste textile fibers, threads, and rags for use as batting, padding, and wiping rags. Respnsibilities include:
* Spaces knives on delivery end of garnett machine according to width specified for batting.
* Weighs samples and adjust weight mechanisms on machines to meet processing specifications.
* Trains employees in operating and cleaning of machines.
* Requisitions materials and machine parts.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in coloring, drying, and setting (smoothing grain) hides.
* Trains workers in operation of machines.
* Requisitions materials.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in trimming flesh, liming hair, and washing tanned hides.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in inspecting, measuring, and wrapping finished leather.
* Requisitions materials.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in bonding, stretching, and applying finishing solution to synthetic sewing threads to improve their sewing quality. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes production activities to ensure that work progresses according to schedule and that work methods meet prescribed standards.
* Feels bonded thread to verify that moisture content and surface smoothness of thread meet processing specifications.
* Confers with company personnel to identify and resolve processing problems.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts machines that bond, stretch, and apply finishing solution to thread to improve sewing quality. Respnsibilities include:
* Changes charts in control boxes for recording temperature and viscosity strength and turns knob to set temperature control at specified level on oven unit.
* Turns handles on roller units to adjust speeds of front and back rollers and verifies revolutions (settings), using tachometer.
* Turns crank to adjust builder motion on takeup rack to facilitate uniform winding of thread on reels.
* Operates machine for test run to verify adjustments and to obtain thread samples.
* Conducts standard tests on samples to determine breaking strength, elongation, and weight of thread, using tensile-testing machine, skein winder, and grain scales.
* Posts results onto quality control reports.
* Maintains record of samples and customer orders processed.
* Changes felt covers on rollers and wipers and replaces worn or broken guides and tapes, using handtools.
* Lubricates machines, using oilcan.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tans and dresses pelts to improve luster and beauty or restore natural appearance of pelts. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares tanning and washing solutions according to formulas and places pelts in vats or revolving drums containing solution to clean, soften, and preserve pelts.
* Removes long coarse hair from pelts and evens length of underlying fur, using beaming knife and shaving knife.
* Removes particles of flesh and at from pelts and skins, using hand and powered knives determined by thickness and weight of pelt.
* Examines skins to detect defects, such as spaces, improper scraping, and tears.
* Records defect and sorts furs according to grade.
* May oil and clip pelts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tans and dresses pelts to improve luster and beauty or restore natural appearance of pelts. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares tanning and washing solutions according to formulas and places pelts in vats or revolving drums containing solution to clean, soften, and preserve pelts.
* Removes long coarse hair from pelts and evens length of underlying fur, using beaming knife and shaving knife.
* Removes particles of flesh and at from pelts and skins, using hand and powered knives determined by thickness and weight of pelt.
* Examines skins to detect defects, such as spaces, improper scraping, and tears.
* Records defect and sorts furs according to grade.
* May oil and clip pelts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests fiberglass products, such as bonded cord, insulation mats, roving, and staple lengths to determine if products conform to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines breaking strength of bonded cord by mounting sample on arms of testing machine and moving machine controls that apply force necessary to rupture sample.
* Weighs insulation mat, bonded cord, or roving on balance scales before and after drying and computes percentage of moisture, wax binder, and solids in sample, using slide rule.
* Observes machines in operation to detect worn equipment, irregular roving packages, or dull cutters.
* Examines products for defects, such as dirt, frayed ends, clumps in mats, discolorations, and variation in number of ends.
* Measures staple lengths to verify conformance to standards, using ruler.
* Tests speed of machine spindles, using tachometer.
* Records tests results on quality control records and notifies production supervisors, machine repairer, and workers when machine operation, material, or products vary from standards.
* May perform physical tests to determine yarn porosity, diameter, or denier.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests fiberglass products, such as bonded cord, insulation mats, roving, and staple lengths to determine if products conform to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines breaking strength of bonded cord by mounting sample on arms of testing machine and moving machine controls that apply force necessary to rupture sample.
* Weighs insulation mat, bonded cord, or roving on balance scales before and after drying and computes percentage of moisture, wax binder, and solids in sample, using slide rule.
* Observes machines in operation to detect worn equipment, irregular roving packages, or dull cutters.
* Examines products for defects, such as dirt, frayed ends, clumps in mats, discolorations, and variation in number of ends.
* Measures staple lengths to verify conformance to standards, using ruler.
* Tests speed of machine spindles, using tachometer.
* Records tests results on quality control records and notifies production supervisors, machine repairer, and workers when machine operation, material, or products vary from standards.
* May perform physical tests to determine yarn porosity, diameter, or denier.
Industry:Professional careers
