- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who controls operation of machinery and equipment, such as coil car, uncoiler, rollers, power shears, and hoist, using console, from pulpit in welding mill to form skelp (metal coil) into metal pipe. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives signal through intercom to begin machine operation.
* Moves levers and presses buttons on control console to position coil car under overhead hoist and receive supply of skelp.
* Observes operation of car that transports skelp through series of processing operations, such as uncoiling skelp, rolling coil into sheets, and shearing sheets into specified size prior to welding and forming metal into pipe.
* Observes operation from pulpit to detect camber (curves in skelp sheet) and machine malfunctions, such as jam-ups.
* Stops machinery when malfunctions occur and removes sections of cobble (damaged or defective skelp), using acetylene torch.
* Assists workers in setting up and adjusting machines and equipment, using handtools and measuring instruments.
* Signals overhead crane operator to restock or remove skelp and cobble from operating pit.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that segregate cartridge cases with oversize and undersize heads. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to adjust pneumatic conveyor transferring cases from washer-dryer to storage hopper.
* Raises hopper gate to regulate flow of cases to shaker plate and turns wingnut to adjust spacing of gauge rails.
* Starts machines to shake cases through specially holed plate that retains cases with oversize heads and feeds cases that pass through holes, nose down, between inclined (gauge) rails to separate cases with undersize heads.
* Inverts shaker plate periodically to dump cartridge cases with oversize heads.
* Removes cartridge cases jammed between gauge rails with fingers or wire pick.
* Lifts barrels of gauged cases from discharge chutes to trucks and pushes barrels to storage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates shearing machine equipped with sets of cutting dies or blades to shear structural shapes, such as angles, channels, and Z-bars to specified length or bevel. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns and locks selected blades into opening of machine, using rule, gauge, shims, feelers, and wrench.
* Sets guide stop to specified distance from shearing die, using tape measure and wrench.
* Positions workpiece on shearing die and against guide stop.
* Starts machine to activate cams which force blades to shear metal, or depresses pedal, causing shearing die ram to descend and cut workpiece to specified length.
* May set up shear with single set of blades to cut bars or rounds.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up automatic swaging machines that press lead wire or lead slugs into bullets or into cores for jacketed bullets. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions and aligns forming die and punch in machine.
* Changes length and rate of punch and adjusts automatic feed and ejection mechanisms, using handtools and gauges.
* Starts machine to obtain sample bullets or cores.
* Examines finished product for defects, such as malformed nose or heel, nicks, and scratches, and determines cause.
* Verifies profile and dimensions, using fixed gauges.
* Weighs samples on balance scale to ascertain conformance to specifications.
* Operates speed lathe and polishing jack to reshape and polish worn punches and polishes dies by hand, using emery cloth.
* Gives instructions to new workers in machine operation and inspection.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates rolling mill to form sheet metal sections of various types, gauges, and lengths from coils of sheet steel according to blueprints or other specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies gauge and size of raw material against specifications, using tape measure and gauge.
* Positions and secures stock-coil on pay-out mandrel and adjusts cone-brake, using handtools.
* Spaces and adjusts mill rolls and fits shims on shafts according to specifications, using gauges, rules, and handtools.
* Sets trigger mechanism which actuates cut-off die to specified length by setting and tightening setscrews.
* Feeds end of coil onto guide table and actuates shear to square end of coil.
* Actuates controls on panel to thread lead end of coil through mill.
* Inspects first piece for variation from rolling or length specifications and makes necessary adjustments to mill.
* Starts mill for automatic operation and controls speed from control panel.
* Adjusts valves to control flow of coolant on metal and observes operation of lubrication system.
* Patrols mill to detect jamming.
* Inspects raw material or finished product visually or by measurement for variation from specified quality standards.
* Records mill production on schedule sheet.
* May train new mill operators.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in repairing and overhauling farm equipment, machinery, and vehicles on farms or in farm-equipment repair shops. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains workers in vehicle maintenance and repair procedures.
* Inspects work for compliance with standards.
* Requisitions replacements parts and supplies.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sharpens buhrstones in grain grinding mills under direction of head, miller wet process. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes bolts holding buhrstones in mill, using wrench, and places stones on workbench, using hoist.
* Brushes face of stone with broom.
* Recuts floors (concentric grooves near center of stone) and cracks in stone, following original indentations, using air-hammer chisel.
* Brushes chips from stone, and replaces it in mill.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects railroad locomotives in roundhouse or shop to determine extent of wear and needed repairs, using handtools and measuring instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines firebox, journal boxes, and bearings to detect wear.
* Taps parts, such as rods, wheels, and bolts with hammer or rawhide mallet and listens to sound to detect ruptures or cracks.
* Measures wheel flanges with calipers and depth gauge to detect excessive wear or flat spots.
* Reports defects to roundhouse supervisor or prepares inspection report form.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates roughing mill roll stands to reduce steel billets, blooms, and slabs to specified dimensions, using knowledge of rolling practices and steel properties. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads rolling order to determine setup specifications.
* Installs rolling equipment, such as roll stands, guides, bar turners, and repeaters on rolling line, using handtools, bars, levers, and sledges.
* Moves controls to set specified draft between rolls at each stand.
* Observes color of heated steel to determine rolling temperature and starts roughing stands.
* Examines product passing through mill for surface defects, such as scratches and cracks.
* Verifies specified gauge of product after each pass, using calipers.
* Gives directions to mill crew in readjusting roll draft and realigning guides.
* May set up and monitor computerized roughing roll stands.
* May be designated according to type of mill operated as bar mill rougher; hot-strip mill rougher; merchant mill rougher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages automobile service station. Responsibilities include:
* Plans, develops, and implements policies for operating station, such as hours of operation, workers required and duties, scope of operations, and prices for products and services.
* Hires and trains workers, prepares work schedules, and assigns workers to specific duties, such as customer service, automobile maintenance, or repair work.
* Directs, coordinates, and participates in performing customer service activities, such as pumping gasoline, checking engine oil, tires, battery, and washing windows and windshield.
* Notifies customer when oil is dirty or low, tires are worn, hoses or fanbelts are defective, or evidence indicates battery defects, to promote sale of products and services, such as oil change and lubrication, tires, battery, or other automotive accessories.
* Reconciles cash with gasoline pump meter readings, sales slips, and credit card charges.
* Orders, receives, and inventories gasoline, oil, automotive accessories and parts.
* May perform automotive maintenance and repair work, such as adjusting or relining brakes, motor tune-ups, valve grinding, and changing and repairing tires.
* May sell only gasoline and oil on self-service basis and be designated Manager, Self-Service Gasoline Station.
Industry:Professional careers
