- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who sets up and operates roll-forging machine to taper, shape, or reduce metal bar stock as specified by work order. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts two semicylindrical dies on opposing roll shafts of machine, using wrenches.
* Positions and bolts limit stops on machine, using rule, scale, and handtools.
* Pulls workpiece from furnace, when color indicates forging temperature, and places it on worktable, using tongs.
* Pushes workpiece into open segment of dies and depresses pedal to rotate dies that grasp workpiece in circular grooves and pull it between power-driven rolls bearing contoured dies to shape workpiece.
* Moves workpiece through progressively smaller grooves on dies to forge it to specified shape.
* Verifies dimensions, using gauge or scale.
* May use roll-forging machine that automatically tapers, shapes, or reduces metal bar stock and be designated Rotary-Swaging-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates manipulator to transport metal stock from furnace and position and turn it on anvil of forging press or hammer. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves levers and pedals to guide manipulator along floor or on overhead rails to furnace.
* Moves levers on control box to grasp workpiece with jaws mounted on arm extending from manipulator cab, and transports workpiece to press or hammer.
* Moves controls of arm to turn and position workpiece on anvil as it is being shaped, following signals of heavy forger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates manipulator to transport metal stock from furnace and position and turn it on anvil of forging press or hammer. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves levers and pedals to guide manipulator along floor or on overhead rails to furnace.
* Moves levers on control box to grasp workpiece with jaws mounted on arm extending from manipulator cab, and transports workpiece to press or hammer.
* Moves controls of arm to turn and position workpiece on anvil as it is being shaped, following signals of heavy forger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks in forging plant. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves workpieces from furnace to hammer anvil, using tongs or hoist.
* Opens and closes electrically controlled furnace doors to assist steel press crew.
* Positions and turns workpieces and work aids during forging by heavy forger.
* Removes scale from anvil, using broom and airhose.
* Cleans work area with broom and shovel and cleans machine parts, using rag and solvent.
* Replaces forge crew tools in specified racks.
* May assist in installing dies used in forging operations.
* May cut material to specified size with handsaw, and smooth parts with bench grinder to assist blacksmith.
* May remove cracks in ingots, billets, or forgings, using swing grinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends power hammer or power press that forges metal stock. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves levers, upon signal from heavy forger, to control force and frequency of hammer blows, or ram pressure, to shape forging.
* May be designated according to equipment tended as forging-press lever tender; hammer driver.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends power press that tests resiliency of spiral springs and that compresses them to specified length. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions spring over mandrel of press table and places metal plate over end of spring.
* Pulls lever that forces plunger of machine against plate to compress spring.
* Measures compressed length of spring, using micrometers, calipers, and gauges.
* Releases press and measures uncompressed length of spring.
* Inserts metal wedge between spring coils and taps spring with mallet to adjust spring to specified length and pitch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compares glow inside forge shop furnace with color intensity chart to determine internal temperature of furnace, using pyrometer. Respnsibilities include:
* Looks through pyrometer into furnace and compares intensity of light generated by furnace with chart depicting color at various temperatures to determine internal furnace temperature.
* Informs specified forging personnel of observed temperature to permit designated adjustments to furnace controls, maintenance work, and production rescheduling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists heavy forger in shaping hot metal on power hammer or press equipped with open dies, working as member of crew. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls workpiece from furnace with tongs and positions and turns it on hammer anvil.
* Removes scale from metal and anvil during forging, using compressed air or broom.
* May assist in forging unheated metal.
* May be designated according to worker assisted as hammersmith helper; press-smith helper.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in rolling heated ingots into steel shapes, such as blooms, billets, and slabs, and in shearing shapes to specified lengths.
* Trains workers in setting up mill.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operation of merchant mill to roll products, such as bars, flats, and skelp from billets and slabs. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads rolling order to plan setup of roll stands.
* Directs workers in building and installing rolling stands and equipment on rolling line, and setting draft (space between rolls) for each roll stand.
* Observes operation of mill, inspects product during rolling operation, and orders adjustments in mill equipment and changes in conveyor speeds for drawing billets or slabs from furnace.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
