- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who installs and repairs railroad sleeping car equipment, such as plumbing, interior fixtures, windows, steps, and platforms. Respnsibilities include:
* Fabricates and installs cabinets and other wood fixtures, using carpentry tools.
* Replaces window glass, using handtools.
* Repairs damage to metal surfaces and parts, using arc or acetylene welding equipment.
* Removes mechanical equipment, such as compressors and generators from beneath car for bench repair by other workers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates movement of air traffic between altitude sectors and control centers to provide maximum separation and safety for aircraft. Responsibilities include:
* Maintains radio and telephone contact with air-traffic coordinators in adjoining control centers.
* Relays information regarding air traffic by radio to air-traffic-control specialist, tower and air-traffic-control specialist, station, monitoring each sector, for transmittal to airplane pilot, commercial.
* Relays information, such as altitude, expected time of arrival, and course.
* Determines procedure and time for altitude changes to prevent collisions and excessive traffic buildup in flight sector.
* Completes daily activity report.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records information pertaining to merchandise to be returned to manufacturer because of defects, wrong amount, or type. Responsibilities include:
* Examines and compares merchandise with original requisition to record information, such as quantity, type of defects, and date on invoice or other forms.
* Prepares invoices and other forms for all returned goods.
* May type letters or information on records to explain reason for returned goods.
* May compile and file list of merchandise handled.
Industry:Professional careers
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 examines airframe, engines, and operating equipment to ensure that repairs are made according to specifications, and certifies airworthiness of aircraft. Respnsibilities include:
* Tests tightness of airframe connections with handtools and employs flashlight and mirror to inspect fit of parts.
* Signals airframe-and-power-plant mechanic to start engine and manipulate aircraft controls.
* Collects data, such as engine revolutions per minute and fuel and oil pressures, to evaluate engine performance, using tachometer and pressure gauges.
* Examines assembly, installation, and adjustment of ailerons and rudders to ensure that work and materials conform with Civil Air Regulations, company specifications, and manual procedures.
* Determines accuracy of installation of components in power plant and hydraulic system with protractor, micrometer, calipers, and gauge to ensure that specified tolerances are met.
* Signs inspection tag to approve unit, or records reasons for rejecting unit.
* Logs inspections performed on aircraft.
* Must hold Airframe and Power Plant Mechanic's License and Inspection Authorization, issued by Federal Aviation Administration.
* May prepare dismantling schedules for airplanes to be overhauled.
* May service, repair, and replace airframe components, engines, and operating equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that pierces steel billets lengthwise preparatory to making seamless tubing. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves levers to drop hot billet from conveyor into trough and ram it along trough into rollers which force center of billet into piercing mandrel.
* Moves controls to withdraw piercing mandrel from billet and drop billet on conveyor for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and services vehicles of service station customers through performance of any of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines vehicles and confers with customers to determine malfunction and repairs desired.
* Refers customer with major vehicle repairs to garage.
* Removes and replaces parts of ignition system, such as spark plugs, points, coil, or alternator to complete tune-up or replace malfunctioning part of system, using mechanic's handtools, gauges, and test meters.
* Turns adjustment screws of carburetor to set idle speed of engine, using screwdriver.
* Replaces defective chassis parts, such as shock absorbers, balljoint suspension, brakeshoes, and wheel bearings.
* Services vehicles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates lathe to form lead plumbing fittings to specified shape and diameter. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts lead pipe over mandrel on lathe.
* Starts lathe and presses special handtool against end of pipe, or turns handwheel to advance turret on which special tools are mounted to stretch and bend pipe against rounded end of mandrel to form traps of various sizes.
* Reduces or expands diameter of lead pipe openings by holding tool against outside or inside surface of rotating pipe.
* Inserts iron ring inside of expanded pipe or outside of reduced pipe.
* Rolls edge of pipe end over ring to hold it in place.
* May solder brass ferrule over end of lead bend to seal junction.
* May heat threaded brass ring and press reduced opening of pipe over ring to fuse them.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists other workers engaged in servicing, repairing, and overhauling aircraft and aircraft engines, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Replaces batteries, filters, and similar accessories, using mechanic's handtools.
* Removes inspection plates, cowling, engine covers, floor boards, and related items, to permit access for repair or inspection, and replaces items upon completion of work.
* Assists airframe-and-power-plant mechanic in dismantling, repairing, overhauling, or replacing parts and assemblies, such as engines, plumbing and hydraulic systems, and aircraft structural sections.
* Cleans aircraft interior and exterior parts and assemblies with solvents or other cleaning solutions.
* Inflates tires, fills gasoline tanks and oil reservoirs, and greases aircraft, using grease gun.
* May assist manufacturing facility flight line personnel in servicing and repairing aircraft prior to flight or customer acceptance and be designated Flight Line Service Attendant.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions, fits, and secures engine parts to erect in-line, V-type, or radial diesel engines according to specifications, using machinist's handtools, surface plate, torque wrench, parallel supports, and measuring instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns vertical columns over bedplate between A-frames, using transit and levels and secures columns with tie rods to form frame of engine.
* Positions engine parts and assemblies, such as valve lever assembly, pistons, connecting rods, cylinder liners, cylinder heads, camshaft housing, crankshaft, journals, fuel injection pump, fuel nozzles, and blowers with help of other workers or overhead crane.
* Reams or hones holes for fitted bolts.
* Files, scrapes, drills, taps, dowels, and shims parts, such as cylinder liners, keys, and matching parts.
* Measures clearances and dimensions, using scales, micrometers, combination square, feeler gauge, and dial indicator.
* Turns screws to adjust fuel rack and governor, using wrenches and screwdriver, and aligns timing marks on crankshaft, camshaft, and flywheel.
* Installs and connects fuel, lubrication, and cooling piping, using pipe benders, cutters, and threaders.
* Connects engine to test equipment, such as dynamometer, and runs engine for specified time to test horsepower at designated revolutions per minute.
* May disassemble engine for shipping.
Industry:Professional careers
