- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who repairs and maintains cellophane-forming machines, using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes machines in operation and listens for sounds to locate causes of trouble.
* Dismantles machines and removes defective parts, such as gears, belts, and rollers, using handtools.
* Replaces broken or worn parts.
* Lubricates machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates extrusion machine to form flat metal strips into tubular, channel, angular, or other shapes.
* Positions and bolts or clamps single or multiple dies on bed of press, using handtools.
* Loads coil of strip metal on spindle of machine.
* Feeds strip between dies, and locks front end of strip in gripping jaws or dog of power carriage.
* Turns handwheels to close and tighten dies on metal strip and starts machine.
* Stops machine after metal is formed and removes piece from between dies.
* Cuts formed piece into specified lengths, using electric saw, and verifies conformity of piece to specifications, using micrometers and calipers.
* Clears dies of loose burrs with blast of compressed air.
* May straighten sheet metal parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who provides casework services for inmates of penal or correctional institution. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews inmate and confers with attorneys, judges, and probation officers to compile social history reflecting such factors as nature and extent of inmate's criminality and current and prospective social problems.
* Analyzes collected data and develops and initiates treatment plan.
* Interviews inmate and consults with employees of institution, such as supervisory personnel, clinical psychologist , and clergy member , to evaluate inmate's social progress, and counsels inmate concerning perceived problems.
* Reports inmate's progress and makes recommendations to parole officials.
* Assists inmate with matters concerning detainers, sentences in other jurisdictions, and writs.
* Confers with inmate's family to identify family needs prior to inmate's release.
* Occasionally conducts collective counseling for small groups of inmates.
* Lectures groups of newly admitted inmates to inform them of institution rules and regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates and assembles structural metal products, such as framework or shells for machinery, ovens, tanks, stacks, and metal parts for buildings and bridges according to job order, verbal instructions, and blueprints. Respnsibilities include:
* Develops layout and plans sequence of operations, applying knowledge of trigonometry, stock allowances for thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and physical properties of metal.
* Locates and marks bending and cutting lines onto workpiece.
* Sets up and operates fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, and drill presses.
* Hammers, chips, and grinds workpiece to cut, bend, and straighten metal.
* Preheats workpieces, using hand torch or furnace.
* Positions, aligns, fits, and welds together parts.
* Designs and constructs templates and fixtures.
* Verifies conformance of workpiece to specifications, using square, ruler, and measuring tape.
* May fabricate and assemble sheet metal products.
* May set up and operate machine tools associated with fabricating shops, such as radial drill press, end mill, and edge planer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who decontaminates radioactive materials and equipment, using chemical solutions, and sandblasting machine. Responsibilities include:
* Reads contamination level, using radiation meter, and sorts contaminated items by size and radiation level, following specifications.
* Weighs out and mixes chemical solutions in tank according to prescribed formula, and heats solution, using steam hose.
* Immerses objects, such as pipes, motors, valves, hose, and containers, in solution for specified time, using hoist.
* Places smaller objects in sandblasting machine, using manipulators or protective gloves, and starts machine to remove greater proportion of contamination and reduce immersion time.
* Places hot (radioactive) waste, such as sweepings and broken sample bottles, into disposal containers to be processed for land or sea burial.
* Cleans objects having radiation count under specified amount, using cloth, soap, solvents, wire brush, and buffing wheel.
* Records type of material and equipment decontaminated and method used.
* May accompany coffins of waste to disposal area.
* May monitor radiation-exposed equipment, plant and hospital areas, and materials, using radiation-detector measuring instruments, such as portable gamma survey meter, Geiger counter, and alpha-beta-gamma survey meter.
* May determine method of decontamination according to size and nature of equipment, and degree of contamination.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs community contact work on simpler aspects of programs or cases and assists in providing services to clients and family members, under close and regular supervision and tutorage of caseworker or casework supervisor . Assists in locating housing for displaced individuals and families. Monitors free, supplementary meal program administered by agencies for children and youth from low-income families to ensure cleanliness of facility and that eligibility guidelines are met for persons receiving meals. Assists elderly clients in preparation of forms, such as tax and rent refund forms. Accompanies elderly clients on visits to social, charitable, and government agencies to assist clients with their problems. Submits to and reviews reports and problems with superior. May be designated according to clients serviced as Senior Service Aide; Youth Nutritional Monitor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends fabricating machines, such as cutoff saws, shears, rolls, brakes, presses, forming machines, spinning machines, and punch, that cut, shape, and bend metal plates, sheets, tubes, and structures. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads job specifications to determine machine adjustments and material requirements.
* Sets stops or guides to specified length as indicated by scale, rule, or template.
* Positions workpiece against stops, manually or using hoist, or aligns layout marks with die or blade.
* Pushes button or depresses pedal to activate machine.
* Observes machine operation to detect workpiece defects or machine malfunction.
* Measures workpiece dimensions, using rule, template, or other measuring instruments to determine accuracy of machine operation.
* Removes burrs, sharp edges, rust, or scale from workpiece, using file, hand grinder, or wire brush.
* Performs minor machine maintenance, such as oiling machines, dies, or workpieces.
* Assists machine operators to set up machine, and stack, mark, pack, and transport finished workpieces.
* May rivet and spot-weld workpieces.
* May tend machines that fabricate and assemble sheet metal products and be designated Sheet-Metal Production Worker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends sweep press that cuts recesses, smooths rough spots, and rounds corners on watch plates and bridges. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions plate or bridge over protruding pins of chuck.
* Moves controls that feed cutting head to plate or bridge.
* May verify dimensions of specified number of parts, using precision plug and indicator gauge.
* May replace worn or dull bits.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages employment services and business operations of private employment agency. Responsibilities include:
* Directs hiring, training, and evaluation of employees.
* Analyzes placement reports to determine effectiveness of employment interviewers.
* Participates in development and utilization of job development methods to promote business for agency.
* Enforces, through subordinate staff, agency policies, procedures, safety rules, and regulations.
* Approves or disapproves requests for purchase of new equipment and supplies.
* Ensures maintenance and repair of facilities and equipment.
* Prepares budget requests.
* Investigates and resolves customer complaints.
* May negotiate leases and order equipment and supplies for agency.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates wire drawing machine to reduce watch spring wire from round to rectangular cross section and improve its physical properties. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads job instruction which specifies size, number of passes, and amount of reduction on each pass of wire through series of wire drawing dies.
* Sets adjustable (flat) die for first pass by turning setscrews on which divisions are shown.
* Threads wire from feeding roll through adjustable die and round die (ring-shaped to control wire width) and attaches end to winding roll.
* Starts machine and observes operation to ascertain if drawing is proceeding as specified and makes adjustments to obtain required wire tension, using handtools.
* Stops machine when all wire has passed through dies.
* Switches wound roll to feeding position and bare roll to winding position, adjusts die for next pass, and repeats until wire is drawn to size specified.
* Records production.
* May examine wire for defects, such as scratches or cracks, using eye loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
