- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who sets up and controls exhaust equipment to remove gases and impurities from electron and cathode ray tubes, following procedure manuals, work orders, and specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production schedules and procedure manuals to determine tube specifications and operational sequence.
* Calculates equipment control settings, applying standard formulas to determine power, temperature, and vacuum, according to tube size and type.
* Sets controls on power supplies, ovens, and pumps according to calculations.
* Observes meters, gauges, and recording instruments during operation, and adjusts controls to ensure tubes are exhausted as specified.
* Troubleshoots exhaust equipment to locate malfunction when tubes fail to exhaust.
* Repairs faulty exhaust equipment, or notifies maintenance department of faulty equipment.
* May test and inspect tubes for leaks, using leak detection equipment.
* May set up and operate aging equipment to stabilize electrical properties of tube.
* May be designated according to type of equipment operated as rotary pump operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and controls exhaust equipment to remove gases and impurities from electron and cathode ray tubes, following procedure manuals, work orders, and specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production schedules and procedure manuals to determine tube specifications and operational sequence.
* Calculates equipment control settings, applying standard formulas to determine power, temperature, and vacuum, according to tube size and type.
* Sets controls on power supplies, ovens, and pumps according to calculations.
* Observes meters, gauges, and recording instruments during operation, and adjusts controls to ensure tubes are exhausted as specified.
* Troubleshoots exhaust equipment to locate malfunction when tubes fail to exhaust.
* Repairs faulty exhaust equipment, or notifies maintenance department of faulty equipment.
* May test and inspect tubes for leaks, using leak detection equipment.
* May set up and operate aging equipment to stabilize electrical properties of tube.
* May be designated according to type of equipment operated as rotary pump operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends autoclave that sterilizes drug products, containers, supplies, instruments, and equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Places articles in autoclave manually or by use of electric hoist.
* Secures door or lid, turns dials to adjust temperature and pressure, and opens steam valve.
* Shuts off steam and removes sterilized articles after specified time.
* Records time and temperature setting and gauge readings.
* May wrap supplies and instruments in paper or cloth preparatory to sterilizing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that remove foreign matter from grass seed, grain, or cottonseed. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines and turns handwheel to regulate flow of material into machines.
* Brushes cleaning screens, using wire brush to prevent clogging.
* Empties trash bags attached to machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates cone, disk, or nozzle-type electro-static painting equipment to spray negatively charged paint particles onto positively charged workpieces. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves switches and dials to start flow current and to activate conveyor and paint spraying equipment.
* Turns valves and observes gauges to set pressure and to control flow of paint to each spray station.
* Adjusts thermostat to maintain specified temperature in paint tanks.
* Inspects painted units for runs, sags, and unpainted areas.
* Readjusts pressure valves to control direction and pattern of spray and to correct flaws in coating.
* Cleans paint from ceiling and walls of booth, conveyor hooks or grid, and from disks, cones, spray heads, and hoses, using solvent and brush.
* May hand-spray parts to cover unpainted areas or apply rust preventative.
* May mix paint according to specifications, using viscometer to regulate consistency according to changes in atmospheric conditions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates cone, disk, or nozzle-type electro-static painting equipment to spray negatively charged paint particles onto positively charged workpieces. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves switches and dials to start flow current and to activate conveyor and paint spraying equipment.
* Turns valves and observes gauges to set pressure and to control flow of paint to each spray station.
* Adjusts thermostat to maintain specified temperature in paint tanks.
* Inspects painted units for runs, sags, and unpainted areas.
* Readjusts pressure valves to control direction and pattern of spray and to correct flaws in coating.
* Cleans paint from ceiling and walls of booth, conveyor hooks or grid, and from disks, cones, spray heads, and hoses, using solvent and brush.
* May hand-spray parts to cover unpainted areas or apply rust preventative.
* May mix paint according to specifications, using viscometer to regulate consistency according to changes in atmospheric conditions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment such as tanks, vats, ovens, and retorts, to impregnate, dry, or bake insulating, preserving, sealing, or other materials into or onto electrical or electronic components, according to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads work orders to determine process specifications and priorities.
* Loads components into or onto devices, such as racks, arbors, and baskets, manually or using hoist.
* Manipulates controls to start and stop equipment, such as impregnating tanks, vacuum tanks, and drying and curing ovens, and to regulate processing factors, such as flow of fluids into vats or tanks, vacuum pressure, temperature, and processing time.
* Monitors equipment to ensure conformance to processing specifications, and records processing information.
* May operate molding press to encase components in protective compounds.
* May examine processed components for defects.
* May trim excess material from components.
* May clean component parts prior to processing.
* May spray protective or other coating onto surface of components, using spray gun.
* May weigh or melt ingredients and mix compounds.
* May transport components to other areas of plant.
* May be designated according to processing material or activity involved as drying-equipment operator; carbon products impregnator; electrolytic capacitors impregnator; wax impregnator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and sterilizes machinery, utensils, and equipment used to process or store products, such as chemicals, paint, food, or beverages. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to drain machines or tanks and disconnects pipes, using wrenches.
* Sprays machines, tanks, and conveyors with water to loosen and remove dirt or other foreign matter.
* Scrubs machines, tanks, tables, pans, bowls, compartments, and conveyors, using brushes, rags, cleaning preparations, and diluted acids.
* Rinses articles with water, and dries them with compressed air.
* Scrubs floors and walls, using brushes, rags, and diluted acids.
* Connects hoses and lines to pump and starts pump to circulate cleaning and sterilizing solution through hoses and lines.
* Scrubs interior of disconnected pipes, valves, spigots, gauges, and meters, using spiral brushes.
* Mixes cleaning solutions and diluted acids, according to formula.
* Draws off samples of cleaning solutions from mixing tanks for laboratory analysis.
* May replace defective sections of metal coils and lines, using handtools, soldering iron, and pipe couplings.
* May lubricate machinery.
* May be designated according to equipment cleaned as Beer-Coil Cleaner; Lard-Tub Washer (meat products); Line Cleaner; Pipe Washer.
* May sterilize equipment and be designated Equipment Sterilizer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and sterilizes machinery, utensils, and equipment used to process or store products, such as chemicals, paint, food, or beverages. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to drain machines or tanks and disconnects pipes, using wrenches.
* Sprays machines, tanks, and conveyors with water to loosen and remove dirt or other foreign matter.
* Scrubs machines, tanks, tables, pans, bowls, compartments, and conveyors, using brushes, rags, cleaning preparations, and diluted acids.
* Rinses articles with water, and dries them with compressed air.
* Scrubs floors and walls, using brushes, rags, and diluted acids.
* Connects hoses and lines to pump and starts pump to circulate cleaning and sterilizing solution through hoses and lines.
* Scrubs interior of disconnected pipes, valves, spigots, gauges, and meters, using spiral brushes.
* Mixes cleaning solutions and diluted acids, according to formula.
* Draws off samples of cleaning solutions from mixing tanks for laboratory analysis.
* May replace defective sections of metal coils and lines, using handtools, soldering iron, and pipe couplings.
* May lubricate machinery.
* May be designated according to equipment cleaned as Beer-Coil Cleaner; Lard-Tub Washer (meat products); Line Cleaner; Pipe Washer.
* May sterilize equipment and be designated Equipment Sterilizer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes specified amounts of wheat and rye middlings with sawdust for use in cleaning tinplate and terneplate. Respnsibilities include:
* Attaches empty sacks to discharge section of machine, starts machine, and dumps ingredients into hopper.
* Removes filled sacks and sews tops, using needle and twine.
* Weighs sacks and trucks them to storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
