- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who examines tool drawings prepared by tool designer for inaccuracies of detail and evaluates overall tool design for fit, form, and function, utilizing knowledge of engineering principles, tool design methods, and manufacturing processes. Responsibilities include:
* Measures drawing dimensions, and compares figures with dimensions on original layout, specifications, or sample part to verify measurements conform to scale.
* Marks verified or out-of-scale dimensions on drawings.
* Inspects lines and figures on drawings for clarity.
* Evaluates overall tool design for functionality, conformance to drawing standards and design specifications, and manufacturing feasibility.
* Reviews material requirements for standardization and conformance to industry specification manuals.
* Discusses design, manufacturing, and related issues with engineering, production, or other personnel.
* Approves or rejects design.
* May operate computer to examine and evaluate computer-generated tool designs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls shrink-pit furnace to assemble hoops and liners to tubes to form cannon barrels. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions steel blocks in shrink-pit to form angle for subsequent positioning of tube so that breech end of tube will be at floor level.
* Cleans and oils contact surfaces of parts with gasoline, oil, and graphite to facilitate assembly.
* Lowers hoops into furnace, using hoist.
* Moves furnace controls and observes thermocouple pyrometer and recording potentiometer to heat furnace to specified temperature.
* Guides cold tube, lowered by crane, through hot hoops in furnace.
* Turns water valve on cooling ring and lowers ring into furnace, using hoist, to spray hoops and shrink them onto tube.
* Reheats hoop and tube assembly, guides liner into tube, and regulates water spray to shrink tube onto liner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who books performers, theatrical or ballet productions, variety or nightclub acts, concert or lecture series, trade shows, or other popular or classical attractions for entertainment in various establishments, such as theaters, showplaces, clubs, or halls. Responsibilities include:
* Schedules attractions for season, considering such factors as entertainment policy, budget, and tastes of patrons of particular establishment represented.
* Negotiates with booking representatives or producers of attractions to arrange terms of contract, play dates, and fees to be paid for engagements.
* Auditions new talent.
* Arranges for billing in accordance with contract agreement.
* Books motion pictures for exhibit into theater chains or independent houses.
* Selects and rents pictures to be exhibited on basis of potential box-office sales, cast of players, advertising allotment allowed by distributor, and similar factors.
* May specialize in in-house bookings and be designated according to establishment as Concert Or Lecture Hall Manager; Showplace Manager.
* May specialize in independent bookings and be designated according to type of talent or of entertainment package represented and placed as Artists' Booking Representative; Theatrical Variety Agent.
* May specialize in rental and distribution of motion pictures and be designated Film Booker.
* May represent popular or rock musical groups only and be designated Band Booker.
* When sponsoring, managing, and producing an entertainment, may be designated Impresario.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises workers engaged in layout and machine operating to fabricate structural, wire, or sheet metal products, applying knowledge of layout, product design, machine functions, capacities, and output potential. Respnsibilities include:
* Requisitions material required to meet production goals.
* Examines items produced to determine if items meet specifications.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated by department or operation as lay-out supervisor; machine-operations supervisor; metal-spinning supervisor; punch-press supervisor; roll-forming supervisor; or product produced as metal furniture fabrication supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends open tank that impregnates (steeps) sheets of woodpulp with caustic soda for use in rayon production. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions rectangular sheets of pulp between perforated separator plates, using tongs.
* Turns valves to admit caustic solution and steam into tank.
* Drains tank after specified steeping time.
* Presses button to activate hydraulic ram that presses excess caustic from steeped sheets and discharges sheets into shredder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and adjusts motor vehicle carburetors. Respnsibilities include:
* Disassembles carburetors and gasoline filter units, using handtools.
* Examines parts for defects and tests needle valves with wire gauges and flowmeter.
* Cleans parts in solvents to remove dirt and gum deposits.
* Repairs or replaces defective parts.
* Reassembles carburetor and gasoline filter, and installs them in vehicle.
* Starts engine and turns adjustment screw to regulate flow of air and gasoline through carburetor, using testing equipment.
* May operate drill press, lathe, and other power tools to retap jets, ream throttle bodies and chokes, and machine seating surfaces of carburetor housings.
* May install and repair mechanical devices that convert conventional systems to use of other fuels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that splices pieces of metal banding used to band compressed cotton bales. Respnsibilities include:
* Overlaps ends of two pieces of banding and positions banding on bed of splicing machine.
* Starts machine that automatically folds and crimps metal fasteners around overlapped ends of banding.
* May bend end of each completed band and attach fastening buckle onto bent end.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains deck machinery, such as cargo winches and anchor windlasses. Respnsibilities include:
* Operates machinery to determine causes of malfunctioning.
* Dismantles, repairs, or replaces defective parts, and reassembles machinery, using machinist's handtools, chain hoists, and steel rollers.
* May maintain ship's plumbing system.
* May change fuses and lights and overhaul electric motors.
* Rating must be endorsed by U.S.
* Coast Guard.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and adjusts or repairs engines, chassis, electrical systems, and interior furnishings of buses. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts engine and listens for indications of malfunctions.
* Tests engine components, such as carburetors, distributors, radiators, and fuel pumps, to determine causes of malfunctions, using timers, gauges, and other testing devices.
* Inspects chassis for defects in parts, such as universal joints, drive shaft, and air-suspension units.
* Inspects electrical systems and equipment and interior furnishings.
* May be designated according to specialty as chassis inspector; electrical inspector; engine inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
