- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who repairs and adjusts electrical and mechanical equipment of gasoline- or diesel-powered inboard or inboard-outboard boat engines, using handtools, power tools, and electrical testing meters. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts motor and listens to its sound to determine causes of trouble.
* Tests motor for conformance to manufacturer's specifications, using electrical testing meters.
* Dismantles motors, using handtools, and examines parts for defects.
* Adjusts generator and replaces faulty wiring, using handtools and soldering iron.
* Installs piston rings, adjusts carburetor, grinds valves, and repairs or replaces reduction gears, and other parts, using lathe, drill press, handtools, and power tools.
* Examines propeller and propeller shafts and repairs defective parts.
* Aligns engine to propeller shaft.
* May operate boat on water to test repairs.
* May repair only mechanical equipment of engines, such as power-tilt, bilge pumps, or power take-offs.
* May be designated according to type of engine repaired as inboard motorboat mechanic; inboard/outboard motorboat mechanic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to form leaf-type spring leaves. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs upper and lower dies in machine, following leaf spring, using handtools.
* Positions heated leaf blank onto lower die, using tongs.
* Depresses pedal or pulls lever to force dies together, forming curved leaf.
* Immerses leaf in quenching oil for cooling and hardening if machine does not perform this function automatically.
* May heat leaf blanks in furnace and form them by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops, tests, and promotes various types of food products. Responsibilities include:
* Selects recipes from conventional cookbooks, or develops new recipes for company food products.
* Prepares and cooks food according to recipe to test quality and standardize procedures and ingredients.
* Evaluates prepared item as to texture, appearance, flavor, and nutritional value.
* Records amount and kinds of ingredients and various test results.
* Suggests new products, product improvements, and promotions for company use or for resale to dealers, manufacturers, or other users.
* Presents food items at demonstration functions to promote desired qualities, nutritional values, and related characteristics.
* Samples shipments to verify weights, measures, coding data, and other evaluations for product control.
* Answers consumer mail.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who negotiates contracts for leasing arenas, auditoriums, stadiums, or other public events facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Solicits new business and renews established contracts to promote rental of facilities.
* Maintains schedule of rentals to determine availability of facilities for bookings.
* Oversees operation and maintenance of facilities.
* Notifies fire and police departments of scheduled use of buildings to provide protection.
* Studies reports to ascertain time lessee used facilities and if damage was incurred to facilities or contents.
* Submits bills and receives and accounts for monies paid for rentals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates power press equipped with pressure blocks or dies to straighten warped or bent metal objects, such as plates, structural castings, shapes, forgings, and shafts to specified dimensions. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines workpiece to locate defects, using such devices as straightedge, deflection gauge, template, and square.
* Positions and locks specified pressure blocks, or die, into ram of machine, or positions shims under high spots of workpiece.
* Lifts and positions workpiece into bed of machine manually or using jib or crane.
* Starts ram which presses out bent or high spots of workpiece.
* Reexamines and repositions workpiece, changing shims for each pass until workpiece conforms with specifications.
* May turn levers or handwheels to adjust depth and pressure of ram.
* May preheat metal, using heating furnace or hand torch and clean dies between pressings, using compressed air, oil, and brush.
* May tend machine equipped with preset dies to bend metal to specified shapes.
* May grind rough edges from finished workpiece, using portable hand grinder.
* May be designated according to part straightened as barrel straightener ii; crankshaft straightener; gear straightener; or according to type press operated as gag-press straightener.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates console to synchronize and equalize prerecorded dialog, music, and sound effects with action of motion picture or television production. Responsibilities include:
* Reads script and dupe sheets of film and tape or video tape to learn sequence of speaking parts, music, and sound effects to be synchronized and integrated in film or tape or video tape.
* Informs dubbing-machine operator to load sound tracks onto dubbing machine and motion-picture projectionist to place film in projector.
* Operates console to control starting and stopping of projector and dubbing machine.
* Observes film or video tape projected onto screen, listens to sound over loud speakers, and turns knobs on panel of console to balance intensity and volume.
* Informs motion-picture projectionist to project film onto screen.
* Observes projection and listens to determine that sound is synchronized and equalized with action on film.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains portable saws powered by internal combustion engines, following manufacturer's repair manuals and using handtools.
* Disassembles engine and replaces defective parts, such as piston rings, bearings, and timing mechanism.
* Cleans or replaces fuel lines and adjusts carburetors.
* Replaces broken links in chain saw or installs new chain.
* Replaces rotary or reciprocating blades in other saws as indicated.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who replaces broken or worn bands that drive spindles on spinning and twisting frames. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts worn leather or cotton band from cylinder with knife.
* Cuts replacement band of specified length from supply roll.
* Draws band over cylinder drum and around spindles by hand or with wire hook.
* Sews or bonds ends together, using portable sewing machine or electric bonding device.
* Places band around flange of spindles and tension pulley to start spindles.
* Lubricates spinning frames, using oilcan and grease gun.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and adjusts electrical and mechanical equipment of gasoline- or diesel-powered inboard or inboard-outboard boat engines, using handtools, power tools, and electrical testing meters. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts motor and listens to its sound to determine causes of trouble.
* Tests motor for conformance to manufacturer's specifications, using electrical testing meters.
* Dismantles motors, using handtools, and examines parts for defects.
* Adjusts generator and replaces faulty wiring, using handtools and soldering iron.
* Installs piston rings, adjusts carburetor, grinds valves, and repairs or replaces reduction gears, and other parts, using lathe, drill press, handtools, and power tools.
* Examines propeller and propeller shafts and repairs defective parts.
* Aligns engine to propeller shaft.
* May operate boat on water to test repairs.
* May repair only mechanical equipment of engines, such as power-tilt, bilge pumps, or power take-offs.
* May be designated according to type of engine repaired as inboard motorboat mechanic; inboard/outboard motorboat mechanic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of automobile mechanics engaged in repairing, adjusting, servicing, and storing motor vehicles in industrial or commercial establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Analyzes defective equipment to determine cause of trouble.
* Inspects and drives repaired vehicles to verify repairs.
* Trains workers in and demonstrates repair and maintenance of vehicles, using handtools, welding, and grinding equipment.
* Evaluates performance of workers.
* Keeps inventory of repair parts and equipment and requisitions replacement stock.
* Prepares repair reports and vehicle requests.
* Schedules transporting of passengers or materials to service or storage areas.
* May supervise workers engaged in inspection and repair of miscellaneous equipment, such as cement mixers and electric trucks.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
