- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who tests, repairs, and rebuilds experimental outboard motors and parts to specified operating efficiency, using machine tools, precision measuring instruments, jigs, and fixtures. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts motor to boat and operates boat at various speeds on waterway to conduct operational tests.
* Observes and records readings on instruments, such as tachometers, monometers, voltmeters, ammeter, and vibration analyzer to measure boat speeds and thrust forces.
* Analyzes test records and disassembles motor to remove parts needing modification.
* Operates machine tools, such as lathes, mills, drills, and grinders, to repair or rework parts, such as cams, rods, crankshaft, and propeller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine which coils light gauge metal strips or wire around rotating spindle to form springs used in clocks, watches, and instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads end of specified length of wire or strip along fixed peg or between guide blocks or rolls and through slot of spindle.
* Starts machine to rotate spindle that winds wire into coil.
* Examines coil for conformance with specifications.
* May tend machine that automatically threads wire through guides and into slot of spindle.
* May feed automatic shear or punch cutter to cut wire or strip to specified length.
* May record number of springs wound.
* May specialize in coiling hairsprings and be designated Hairspring Winder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of field agents and contacts property owners and public officials to obtain permits and easements or to purchase right-of-way for utility lines, pipelines, and other construction projects. Responsibilities include:
* Directs activities involved in search of city and county records to ascertain ownership of properties, and disposition of rights along streets, alleys, and highways.
* Interprets company policy for right-of-way agents regarding purchase of property, or payments and terms of agreements for permits and easements to install facilities on property belonging to other parties.
* Purchases or directs acquisition of right-of-way or obtaining permits, licenses, and agreements.
* Settles claims for property or crop damage resulting from construction activities.
* Releases information to public regarding right-of-way agreements and arranges for modification or release of existing agreements.
* May direct activities of surveying crews in surveying right-of-way and lines for new construction.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in pickling, annealing, cold and temper rolling, and slitting and shearing steel strip or plate. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads rolling order and production schedule for processing specifications for each unit.
* Inspects material from each unit for conformance to metallurgical and customer specifications.
* Determines adjustments required to correct defects noted and directs workers in adjusting machines and equipment to fabricate items meeting specifications.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise pickling and annealing operations only and be designated Supervisor, Cleaning And Annealing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in one phase of producing cartridges and shells.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to process supervised as bullet assembly machine-adjuster leader; cannelure and finish machine-adjuster leader; case trim machine-adjuster leader; primer assembly machine-adjuster leader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates turret punch press to punch holes or layout marks in metal sheets, plates, strips, or bars, following charts which list machine settings for each cut. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts, aligns, and locks punches and dies in turret, using hammer, shims, feelers, micrometers, and setscrews.
* Places workpiece on table manually or by using crane.
* Aligns workpiece to scale and end gauge on machine and clamps it to machine table.
* Pushes button to turn turret to specified punch and die.
* Turns cranks to set indicator to specified dimension on forward and lateral machine scale.
* Presses pedal to activate punch.
* Repeats operation for each machine setting specified on charts.
* Positions center punch from turret to touch plate and turns crank to scratch layout lines.
* May compute punch charts from blueprints, using square, scale, and applying knowledge of shop mathematics.
* May punch holes in nonmetallic materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, repairs, and maintains functional parts of automotive and mechanical equipment and machinery, such as pumps, compressors, pipe-laying machines, ditchdiggers, trucks, and tractors used in petroleum exploration, on oil fields, in pipeline construction, and in airfield maintenance and pipeline operations, using hoists, handtools, gauges, drills, grinding wheels, and testing devices. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects defective equipment and diagnoses malfunctions, using motor analyzers, pressure gauges, chassis charts, and factory manuals.
* Disassembles and overhauls internal combustion engines, pumps, pump power units, generators, transmissions, clutches, and rear ends, using handtools and hoist.
* Grinds and reseats valves, using valve-grinding machine.
* Adjusts brakes, aligns wheels, tightens bolts and screws, and reassembles equipment.
* Operates equipment to test its functioning.
* Changes oil, checks batteries, repairs tires and tubes, and lubricates equipment and machinery.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that expands pipe ends to specified diameter by one of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Starts machine that rotates pipe against die to expand end of pipe.
* (2) Places pipe in expanding machine and starts machine that forces mandrels into end to expand pipe to specified diameter.
* (3) Starts machine that inserts and expands cylindrical element within pipe to enlarge pipe to specified diameter.
* Pushes pipe along conveyor rolls to expander block.
* Verifies dimensions of pipe end with ring or plug gauge.
* Important variables may be indicated by trade names of machine used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to reproduce braille-embossed pages, using one of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Places master page on screen bed.
* Places roll of treated paper on stand.
* Threads paper through equipment and locks paper in clamping frame.
* Pulls heat unit over clamping frame.
* Depresses pedal or handle to lower clamping frame onto screen bed and to create vacuum that forms braille impressions.
* Pushes heat unit from bed.
* Releases pedal or handle to raise clamping frame, and releases catch on frame to draw reproduced copy through equipment.
* Repeats process to make required number of copies.
* Cuts copies apart, using scissors.
* Writes identifying information, such as page number or title, on each copy.
* (2) Positions master page on screen bed.
* Places sheet of heat-sensitive plastic paper over page and lowers clamping frame to lock page into position on bed.
* Pulls heat unit over clamping frame to activate vacuum pump trip-lever.
* Holds heat unit over frame to form braille impressions.
* Pushes heat unit from bed to release vacuum.
* Raises frame to release individual copy.
* Repeats process to make required number of copies.
* Most workers in this occupation are blind.
Industry:Professional careers
