- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who reshapes defective spring leaves, using furnace and power hammer. Respnsibilities include:
* Places leaf in furnace to heat it to specified color.
* Removes leaf from furnace and positions it on bed of power hammer.
* Starts machine to pound leaf into specified shape and verifies shape of leaf, using template.
* Tempers leaf by immersing it in oil bath for specified time.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates closed-die power press to produce metal forgings, following work order specifications, using measuring instruments and handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns and bolts specified dies on ram and anvil of press, using rule, square, shims, feelers, and handtools.
* Turns knobs to set pressure and depth of ram stroke.
* Pulls workpiece from furnace, when color of workpiece indicates forging temperature, and positions workpiece on lower die, using tongs.
* Depresses treadle or pulls lever to lower ram that compresses metal to shape of die impressions.
* May move workpiece through series of dies for progressively finer detail.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates closed-die forging machine equipped with horizontal ram and gripping die to expand end of hot metal bar stock. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns and bolts specified dies and cams in machine, using rule, square, and wrenches.
* Pulls stock from furnace when color indicates forging temperature and inserts stock in gripping die against stop gauge, using tongs or hoist.
* Presses pedal to close gripping die on stock and to advance ram, squeezing end of metal into gripping die cavity.
* Moves workpiece through series of dies to shape stock progressively to specifications.
* Verifies dimensions of forged piece, using set gauges.
* May set up and operate closed-die forging machine to expand end of cold metal.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates battery of machines to cold forge BB shot for air rifles from coils of steel wire. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns die halves that form ball on end of wire, using handtools.
* Turns setscrews and stop nuts to adjust and synchronize cutoff tool, ram stroke, and feeder arm.
* Threads wire through straightening rollers and feeding mechanism into ram head.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect malfunction.
* Measures shot for conformance to specified tolerances, using micrometer.
* Sharpens and shapes cutoff tool, using bench grinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls and monitors operation of automatic casting-forging machine to cast, forge, and trim nonferrous molten metal into finished forgings. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts hydraulic pumps and sets timers and heater controls.
* Turns automatic controls, such as shot weight and pouring speed, to set sequence of operation.
* Notifies forklift operator to pour molten metal into container.
* Pours molten metal into preform mold, using ladle, and starts manual operation for trial run.
* Activates automatic pouring device to fill mold, and depresses controls to initiate automatic casting and forging operations.
* Observes indexing mechanism that moves casting through sequence of operations, such as die press, quenching, and trimming.
* Observes castings and forgings for imperfections, such as discolorations and distortions.
* Realigns dies, castings, or forgings to correct out-of-tolerance conditions.
* Observes lights on control panel to detect machine malfunctions and corrects conditions causing malfunctions, such as clogged filters and sticking valves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends closed-die power press that produces metal forgings. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls workpiece from furnace, when color of workpiece indicates forging temperature, and positions it on lower die, using tongs.
* Moves controls to lower ram that compresses metal to shape of die impressions.
* May move workpiece through series of dies for progressively finer detail.
* May tend press to emboss designs on metal or compress and smooth surface of metal blanks or rough forgings and be designated Coining-Press Operator.
* May tend press that twists forging to form journals and counterweights on crankshafts to specified degree of eccentricity and be designated Twisting-Press Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic corrugating machine that corrugates metal tubes used in making bellows. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves controls of machine to expand corrugating plates and position spacers between plates.
* Places tube in opening of plates.
* Pulls levers to close cradle, remove spacers, and pump water into tube forcing tube walls to conform to shape of corrugated plates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic corrugating machine that corrugates metal tubes used in making bellows. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves controls of machine to expand corrugating plates and position spacers between plates.
* Places tube in opening of plates.
* Pulls levers to close cradle, remove spacers, and pump water into tube forcing tube walls to conform to shape of corrugated plates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in forging boat or track spikes from hot steel rods. Respnsibilities include:
* Coordinates setting up of forge machines with set-up worker to ensure machines forge products of specified size.
* Installs dies and adjusts guide stops in automatic forging machines, using wrenches, hammer, and pry bar.
* Verifies dimensions of spikes, using gauges and rule.
* Observes size, shape, and color of heated spikes and adjusts dies and guide stops to ensure production of spikes to manufacturing standards.
* Repairs machines and conveyor system and replaces worn or broken parts, using wrenches, sledgehammer, pry bar, and chain hoist.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in heating, forging, and inspecting metal workpieces and products. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans and coordinates sequence of operations within forge shop.
* Inspects dies, machines, and work in process to detect malfunctions, and orders corrective action.
* Trains new workers in job duties.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May set up machines for experimental runs.
* May be designated according to department as hammer-shop supervisor; inspection supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
