- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of commissary store to sell to or provide company employees or other eligible customers with foodstuffs, clothing, or other merchandise. Responsibilities include:
* Determines quantities of foodstuffs or other merchandise required to stock commissary, from inventory records, and prepares requisitions or buys merchandise to replenish stock.
* Sells merchandise to company employees or other eligible customers or issues merchandise upon requisition by authorized personnel.
* Keeps records pertaining to purchases, sales, and requisitions.
* May issue foodstuffs and supplies to cooks, camp for preparation of meals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pilots airplane or helicopter at specified altitudes and airspeeds, following designated flight lines, to photograph areas of earth's surface for mapping and other photogrammetric purposes. Responsibilities include:
* Sights along pointers on aircraft to topographical landmarks.
* Adjusts controls to hold aircraft on course, to ensure required overlap with photographs taken on previous flight line, and to select landmark points as guide for next flight line.
* Observes dials and moves controls to hold aircraft in level flight to eliminate contour errors in photographs caused by forward and lateral tilt of aircraft.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to form cut of copper ingot into wire samples for metallurgical testing. Respnsibilities include:
* Smooths lateral sides of sample with emery wheel.
* Heats sample in furnace to light-red glow.
* Rolls sample into rod by passing rod through rolling machine.
* Coils rod and immerses rod in acid bath to remove scale.
* Tapers end of rod, using hammer.
* Inserts tapered end through selected steel-wire die, and fastens it to powered clamp.
* Depresses pedal to draw rod to specified size through series of dies of decreasing diameters.
* Coils wire to prepare it for metallurgical analysis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists hoop maker, machine to make hoops, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves rollers, punches, mandrels, and shear plates and tightens nuts holding them in position.
* Threads end of strap steel through rollers.
* Fills rivet box of machine with rivets.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
* May be designated according to specific machine operator assisted as hoop-flaring-machine-operator helper; hoop-punch-and-coiler-operator helper; hoop-riveting-machine-operator helper.
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 operates machine to stretch metal sheet, strip, or rod to specified length or flatness, or correct extrusion twist and contour defects. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts stretcher blocks to size of metal, using wrench.
* Lifts and positions material in stationary vise.
* Measures metal and compares dimensions to those specified to determine stretch required, using micrometer, tape measure, and tolerance tables.
* Moves controls to clamp metal in stretcher jaws and starts machine to stretch material.
* Verifies amount of stretch by visual inspection or meter readings attached to vises.
* Removes metal and places it on level table to test flatness.
* Records crew time and production record.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who straightens and realigns spindles on ring spinning frames. Respnsibilities include:
* Loosens and tightens spindle nuts with wrench.
* Places plumb (hollow block of wood) over spindle, and hammers or moves spindle by hand until clearance between block and circumference of opening in ring bar is equal.
* Starts machine and observes movement of spindles.
* Inserts shims under bearing collars of spindles that are off-center.
* May inspect and adjust spindles for horizontal trueness.
* May overhaul or repair spinning frames.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in straightening, facing, testing, cutting, and threading steel pipe, and in coating and bundling pipe for shipment.
* Inspects finished pipe for conformance to specifications, using micrometer, calipers, and gauges.
* Directs changes in machine set-ups when product fails to meet specifications.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that stitches paperbacking to wire fabric used as floor and wall plaster lath. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads paper roll and roll of wire fabric onto unreeling stand, using hoist.
* Threads paper and wire fabric through guides, feed rollers, machine, and rewinder.
* Loads stitch wire of specified gauge onto reel and threads end into feed rollers.
* Adjusts machine to regulate length of stitch on fabric, using handtools.
* Adjusts cutters and crimping bar of machine to cut and bend protruding end of thread so that wire hooks on to fabric edge.
* Starts machine to stitch paperbacking to wire fabric.
* Removes reinforced wire fabric from rewinder, using hoist.
* Splices wire fabric rolls to specified length, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
