- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that automatically coils compression, extension, and torsion springs from round and flat wire, following verbal instructions. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines wire stock with micrometer to ensure conformance to specifications.
* Threads end of stock through feed rollers, around arbor, and under cutting tool.
* Starts machine that automatically winds, cuts, and ejects springs.
* Measures springs for conformance to specifications, using micrometers and gauges.
* Verifies action of springs under pressure by compressing springs under specified load in spring testing machine.
* Notifies machine setter when machine malfunctions.
* May sharpen cut-off tool and remove coiling marks from coiling point and pitch tool, using bench grinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates automatic multiple-operation machine to perform any combination of bending, punching, roll forming, beading, cutting and welding, soldering, or clinching of metal to fabricate items, such as rims, molding, cams, tubing, and housings specified by blueprint or work orders. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs and aligns roller dies, drive and forming rolls, punch, notching or forming dies, shear or saw blades, and electrodes, using rules, vernier gauges, square, shims, and handtools.
* Sets side guides and stops.
* Turns knobs to regulate voltage of resistance welding equipment and synchronize speed of feed rolls, conveyor, or transfer machine with action of roller dies, forming rolls, punch or shear rams, and welding unit.
* Places roll of sheet or strip metal or wire onto feedrack and threads end through machine or into drive rolls, or metal blanks or bars onto conveyor, into hopper, or against guides to feed machine.
* Starts machine.
* Verifies dimension of finished product visually or using micrometers, calipers, or gauges.
* May remove finished parts from machine.
* May operate mechanized line of machines working in tandem.
* May be designated by function of machine as tubing-mill operator ii.
* May set up and operate multioperation forming machine to make pipe from continuous steel coil and be designated pipe making welder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who programs, maintains, and repairs production welding systems and equipment, using handtools, power tools, and test instruments, applying knowledge of welding technology and equipment operation, and following blueprints, specifications, and manufacturers' manuals. Respnsibilities include:
* Analyzes welding diagrams, blueprints, templates, or other specifications and inspects components to be welded to determine weld program requirements for production welding robots.
* Presses buttons on teach pendant to program travel speeds and positions of robot arm, applying knowledge of robot programming.
* Presses buttons on weld controller to program amperage, pressure, and dwell time of welding gun attached to robot arm, following specifications and applying knowledge of welding technology.
* Presses buttons on programmable controller to coordinate and sequence operations of robots with production line.
* Inspects welded components and tests strength of welds to verify accuracy of programming, using hammer and applying knowledge gained from experience.
* Modifies weld program to bring weld quality up to specified standards, using teach pendant and weld controller.
* Observes and listens to operating robots to detect abnormal movements or sounds.
* Observes diagnostic lights or codes on video display monitors of programmable controller, robot controller, and weld controller to determine nature of malfunction, applying knowledge of diagnostic code and using manufacturers' manuals.
* Tests electrical and electronic components and circuits of system to determine source of malfunction, using test instruments such as oscilloscopes and voltmeters.
* Visually inspects printed circuit boards for defects, such as loose or broken pin connections.
* Replaces defective controller components, such as printed circuit boards, control units, and fuses.
* Repairs or replaces other system components.
* May perform preventive maintenance, such as lubricating parts, changing oil filters, and replenishing fluid levels.
* May install, set up, adjust, and maintain production welding and brazing machinery, equipment, and devices, such as MIG brazers, press welders, fixtures, shuttles, and safety devices.
* May rebuild defective parts, such as pressure switches and hydraulic valves.
* May repair electrical components, such as teach pendants, timers, and control units.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in machining and assembling electric motors, generators, and control and switch gear apparatus. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs placement of parts, such as stator core, rotor core, field yoke, or panelboard on machining or assembly floor to coordinate machine operation and assembly.
* Inspects machined parts and assembled units for conformance to specifications, using micrometers and other measuring instruments.
* May supervise workers engaged only in assembling or in machining electric motors, generators, and control and switch gear apparatus.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates hydraulic press to bend tubes used in making brass-wind instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Fastens bending die onto press, using wrenches and screwdriver.
* Fits tube into revolving lateral die, using gauge to align center of tube under descending die.
* Starts press to lower overhead die and bend tube.
* Verifies accuracy of bend, using template.
* May cut tube to specified length, using table saw.
* May fill tube with lead to prevent wrinkling during bending.
* May bend tube around forming blocks manually.
* May press steel balls through tube or hammer pitch-filled tube to remove wrinkles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates manipulator and entry guide mechanism from pulpit of rolling mill to position ingots or blooms for entry into rolls of mill. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves levers to transfer ingot from entrance table onto entrance conveyor, and to align side guards that guide ingot into rolls.
* Pushes controls that cause fingers of manipulator to turn ingot after each pass.
* Assists rolling mill crew in roll changes and repairs, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates wirecutting and straightening machine, equipped with forming attachment, to form wire ties for tying bales of paper, hay, or other material. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts driving and straightening rollers, forming attachment, and jaws of holding device, using handtools.
* Turns crank to adjust feed of driving rollers for specified length of bale tie.
* Inserts wire between driving and straightening rollers and starts machine that automatically cuts, forms, and ejects specified number of bale ties in bundle onto rack for wrapping.
* Wraps bundle by hand or uses machine wrapping device.
* May set counter that records number of ties formed.
* May stack finished ties in storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes malfunctions and repairs, rebuilds, and maintains construction equipment, such as cranes, power shovels, scrapers, paving machines, motor graders, trench-digging machines, conveyors, bulldozers, dredges, pumps, compressors and pneumatic tools. Respnsibilities include:
* Operates and inspects machines or equipment to diagnose defects.
* Dismantles and reassembles equipment, using hoists and handtools.
* Examines parts for damage or excessive wear, using micrometers and gauges.
* Replaces defective engines and subassemblies, such as transmissions.
* Tests overhauled equipment to ensure operating efficiency.
* Welds broken parts and structural members.
* May direct workers engaged in cleaning parts and assisting with assembly and disassembly of equipment.
* May repair, adjust, and maintain mining machinery, such as stripping and loading shovels, drilling and cutting machines, and continuous mining machines, and be designated Mine-Machinery Mechanic (mine & quarry).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts zippers of specified length from continuous strip and removes chain links from end of zipper to accommodate attachment of stops. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions zipper strip against guide on machine bed or threads end of chain through guides and under blade and punch.
* Adjusts stop on calibrated scale to obtain specified length and aligns end of strip with stop.
* Depresses pedal that lowers blade and punch onto strip, cutting zippers for garments to specified length and removing chain links from end of zipper for attachment of stops.
* May tend machine that cuts zippers to specified length only.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs welding, burning, and brazing equipment, according to sketches, catalogs, parts lists, and charts. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines equipment and observes operation to detect malfunction.
* Dismantles equipment to remove and replace worn or damaged parts, such as regulator diaphragms, torch tips, pressure springs, gauges, pneumatic cylinders, shunts, hoses, cables, and non-consumable electrodes, using handtools.
* Selects new parts from stock.
* Screws, solders, or brazes parts together to reassemble unit.
* Tests repaired equipment to ensure specified performance.
* Dresses and replaces non-consumable electrodes, using grinding and lapping wheel or tip dressing machine.
* May replace or repair worn or damaged parts of welding and flame cutting machines.
* May issue supplies, such as electrodes, torch tips, weld rods, and fluxes, to welders.
* May change tubes and electrodes of resistance-welding machines.
* May monitor weld current to ensure weld quality.
* May fabricate steel hangers to support manually operated welding guns.
Industry:Professional careers
