- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who weighs pigments for use in production of hard-surface floor covering. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews pattern schedule to determine colors required.
* Moves bags of designated pigments from storage area to scales, using handtruck.
* Weighs prescribed pigments, dumps pigment into container, and marks container to indicate sequence in which color should be charged into mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls processing of molded hard-surface floor covering on table and in consolidating presses. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts mechanism that moves carrier (backing) over table and starts color-depositing cycles.
* Pushes lever to move goods from repair table into flat-bed presses that consolidate carrier and color mix into molded hard-surface floor covering.
* Observes table operations from control booth to detect equipment malfunction or signals from table crew, and stops table movement to allow strickler attendant to make adjustments.
* Reads specifications to determine length of goods required for stoving and affixes register slip on material, at point determined, to guide stoving workers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls one or more units of oxidizing equipment to process oils for use in production of hard-surface floor covering. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to charge prescribed amount of ingredients into equipment, according to formula.
* Adjusts valves to regulate air supply, as specified, to obtain oxidation.
* Sets heat controls to maintain prescribed temperature during oxidizing cycle.
* Tests viscosity of mixture, using viscometer.
* Observes color of batch during process to determine completion of oxidation, using knowledge gained from previous experience.
* Opens bottom door to discharge material from oxidizer or starts pumps to remove material for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls mixing machine to blend asphalt paste of two or more colors to form marbleized asphalt tile. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and turns valves to heat rollers to specified temperature, or until surface of rollers feels hot enough to melt and mix asphalt.
* Shovels or feeds asphalt paste of prescribed colors between rollers until mixing appears complete.
* Signals other workers to cut off and catch marbleized material emerging from machine, and directs helpers who assist in mixing, rolling, and cutting product.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates stove carriage to form bight (top bend) in floor covering and to feed floor covering into curing stoves, working as member of team. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns crank to position carriage over batten irons.
* Adjusts controls to form bight and dip (lower curve).
* Places cone (hollow cylinder) in curve of dip to prevent kinks and sticking.
* Places spacing strips of prescribed material over batten irons to form cushion for additional layer of floor covering.
* Marks or labels sections for sampling.
* May be designated according to tasks performed as bight maker; carriage feeder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses sheets of floor covering onto felt base. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions roll of felt on machine spindle, using hoist.
* Turns steam valves to adjust temperature of roller presses of machine.
* Places sheets of covering on top of felt, and starts machine that presses materials together to form designs.
* Inspects sheets of floor covering emerging from rollers of machine, and discards defective sheets.
* May adjust rollers to maintain specified thickness of floor covering, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends winding machine that rolls lengths of floor covering between various stages of processing, working as member of crew. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes spindle from dolly and positions spindle in winding machine, using power hoist.
* Pulls end of floor covering sheet through winder and secures sheet to empty spindle, using tape.
* Starts machine, and regulates speed of winder to maintain even winding.
* Adjusts tension rolls on machine and sets yardage counter, using handtools.
* Examines material for pinholes, using magnifying glass.
* Stops machine when splices reach winder, indicating end of roll.
* Tears or cuts spliced section, tapes end of sheet to prevent unwinding, and removes full spindle of floor covering from machine.
* Records locations of pinholes and other imperfections on card and attaches card to full spindle.
* May stop machine during winding and cut out designated defective sections of floor covering.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends winding machine that rolls lengths of floor covering between various stages of processing, working as member of crew. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes spindle from dolly and positions spindle in winding machine, using power hoist.
* Pulls end of floor covering sheet through winder and secures sheet to empty spindle, using tape.
* Starts machine, and regulates speed of winder to maintain even winding.
* Adjusts tension rolls on machine and sets yardage counter, using handtools.
* Examines material for pinholes, using magnifying glass.
* Stops machine when splices reach winder, indicating end of roll.
* Tears or cuts spliced section, tapes end of sheet to prevent unwinding, and removes full spindle of floor covering from machine.
* Records locations of pinholes and other imperfections on card and attaches card to full spindle.
* May stop machine during winding and cut out designated defective sections of floor covering.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes cones (hollow cylinders) from dips (lower curves) in floor covering hanging in curing stoves and replaces cones with larger ones to prevent faces of floor covering from sticking together.
* Signals stove-carriage operator at top of stoves to adjust length of dips to effect required spacing.
* Covers floor of stove with paper to prevent dip from touching floor.
* Attaches identifying tag to each dip according to length.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to process substrate, electrode, and termination materials to form monolithic ceramic capacitors. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews work orders and production schedules to determine processing specifications.
* Deposits layer of dielectric ceramic material on thermoplastic sheets, using tape casting equipment.
* Cuts cast sheets into ceramic wafers.
* Verifies and sorts wafers according to thickness and quality, using thickness gauge and magnifying device.
* Deposits electrode material onto wafers, using silk screen printing machine.
* Heats and compresses stacks of imprinted, ceramic wafers to form laminates, using laminating press.
* Cuts laminate into chips, using bench-mounted cutting equipment or automatic cutter.
* Loads chips onto boat and fires chips in kiln to fuse laminated material.
* Applies conductive termination material to specified edges of ceramic chips, manually or using automatic dipping equipment.
* Fuses conductive termination material to ceramic chip, using automatic oven.
* Polishes fused chip, using tumbler.
* Solders lead wires to ceramic chip, manually or using automatic soldering machine.
* Encases capacitors in epoxy material.
Industry:Professional careers
