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A professional who feeds manufactured articles or parts onto conveyor or feed mechanism that carries them through paint dipping and spraying operations.
* May be designated according to coating applied as lacquerer; or according to article sprayed as gunstock-spray-unit feeder; sprayer, light bulbs; or according to mechanism fed as hook loader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more tumbling machines containing steel shot, soap, and water, that clean and polish jewelry articles preparatory to further processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads machine with jewelry articles.
* Bolts lid on machine and starts machine that tumbles and rotates articles in cleaning solution for specified length of time.
* Places articles in sawdust box for drying.
* Cleans sawdust from articles, using airhose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends semiautomatic machine that applies paint to collapsible metal tubes, for packaging drug and toilet products, glue, and similar items. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and positions unpainted tubes on spindles of revolving transfer table that automatically carries tubes against paint rollers.
* Removes painted tubes and places tubes on pegs of conveyor leading to drying oven.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends pumps that maintain level of water in boilers. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads boiler gauges to ascertain need for water.
* Opens valves and starts boiler-feed water pumps to supply water, or adjusts controls to start pumps automatically when water level reaches specified point.
* Observes operation of pumps to detect malfunctions.
* Tests water to determine suitability for boiler use or obtains sample for laboratory analysis.
* Adds specified chemical to condition boiler water.
* May clean boilers.
* May tend evaporator to purify water.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that applies coating to agricultural seeds and separates coated seeds according to size specifications to allow for uniform planting. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps seeds into rotary drum and presses buttons to start drum rotation.
* Adds water, powder, and glue for specified period, using spray guns and scoop and following work order specifications.
* Stops drum and scoops coated seeds (pellets) from drum, dumps pellets into electric sizing mill or onto manual sizing screen to remove undersized pellets.
* Returns undersized pellets to drums for additional coating.
* Dumps and spreads pellets on trays in drying tunnel for drying.
* Repeats sizing procedure for dried pellets to ensure that pellets meet sizing specifications.
* Fills pails with pellets specified on shipping order, using scoop, covers pails with lids, and places pails on pallet for shipment.
* Cleans interior and exterior of drums and work area, using brushes, rags, mop, detergent, and water.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that strips paint from steel drums preparatory to repainting. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to start flow of paint-removing solvent and steam to outlets in respective sections of cleaning equipment.
* Starts pump that re-circulates solvent, and conveyor that carries drums through paint stripping process.
* Observes drums passing through paint stripping section, and adjusts speed of conveyor to obtain maximum efficiency during stripping process.
* Inspects drums to determine whether additional stripping is required, and recycles drums needing more stripping.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that scrubs, cleans, and dries surface of printed circuit board (PCB) panels during manufacturing processes. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads PCB panels onto conveyor that carries panels through scrubbing (abrading or sanding), cleaning, and drying cycles of machine.
* Adjusts machine controls to regulate pressure of scrubbing mechanisms, fluid levels, and conveyor speed.
* Observes gauges and examines processed panels to detect machine malfunctions and conformance to processing specifications.
* Removes and stacks cleaned PCB's from discharge end of machine.
* May clean and maintain scrubbing machine.
* May be designated by type of panels processed as inner-layer scrubber tender.
* May be designated according to point in production when scrubbing occurs as final cleaner .
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to assist mill operator. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds raw materials to mill, using conveyor belt.
* Shovels spillage back onto belt.
* Breaks lumps of incoming raw material, using double jack, to facilitate passage through grizzly before entry into crusher.
* Opens hatch and drains slurry from mill, using electric vibrator or shaking screen to sift foreign particles from slurry.
* Places trays of slurry in drying ovens for specified time.
* Dumps dried slurry into drums.
* Moves drums to storage area, using handtruck.
* Lubricates mill and auxiliary equipment.
* Washes ball mills and cleans work area.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds manufactured articles or parts onto conveyor or feed mechanism that carries them through paint dipping and spraying operations.
* May be designated according to coating applied as lacquerer; or according to article sprayed as gunstock-spray-unit feeder; sprayer, light bulbs; or according to mechanism fed as hook loader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dips balloons in vats of dye and soap solutions to color and polish them. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours specified dyes into dye box receptacles.
* Immerses dye spreader (handled top from which spikes protrude) in dye box and passes it over tank of running water to form crisscross colored pattern of swirls on water.
* Lifts form pan (pan of molded balloons) from curing oven and places it on tank rack with molds immersed in dye water to form varicolored swirling pattern on balloons.
* Transfers pan to draining rack.
* Dips specified form pans in soap solution to impart glossy appearance to balloons and places them on conveyor, preparatory to stripping from molds.
Industry:Professional careers
