- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in grinding, scarfing, or chipping defects from blooms, billets, or slabs preparatory to rolling.
* Directs crane operators in moving steel to and from conditioning yard.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates variety of metalworking machines to fabricate special-alloy spring wire for watches. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares and melts charge of molten metal in vessel (converter) to change form of metal.
* Sets up equipment and casts, rolls, draws, heattreats, and performs allied metalworking operations, using equipment, such as forging hammer, rolling mill, butt welder, strip-grinding machine, and heat-treating furnace.
* Diagnoses and corrects malfunctioning of equipment and machinery and makes replacement parts, using machinist's tools and equipment.
* Works to close metallurgical and dimensional tolerances.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who disassembles defective vehicle leaf springs preparatory to repair and assembles repaired leaf springs. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes center bolt from leaf spring and loosens clips, using handtools.
* Removes rivets from leaf spring, using punch press or drill.
* Drills hole in replacement blank for leaf spring, using drill, or punches hole in blank, using punch press.
* Reassembles leaves for leaf spring, fits keeper on leaves, and fastens with bolts.
* Records number of leaves in spring, dimensions of leaves, size of connecting bolt, and repairs made.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates videotaping equipment to record and play back television programs, applying knowledge of videotaping equipment operation. Responsibilities include:
* Reads television programming log to ascertain program to be recorded or program to be aired.
* Selects source, such as satellite or studio, from which program will be recorded, and selects videotaping equipment on which program will be recorded.
* Observes monitor to verify that station is on-air, and informs supervisor if station not on-air.
* Cleans videotape path to remove contaminants that would affect quality of recording or playback, and mounts videotape onto videotaping equipment.
* Sets audio level, and records test pattern and program onto videotape, using videotaping equipment.
* Verifies quality of recording, using videotape equipment, and informs designated personnel of quality of recording.
* Inspects tape for defective ends, removes defective end, using cutting tool, and mounts videotape onto videotaping equipment to play back program.
* Starts videotaping equipment and turns video and color monitors on to verify setting of video and color levels.
* Observes scales in video and color monitors and operates controls to adjust video and color levels.
* Cues program, using videotaping equipment, and places videotaping equipment in remote control mode for use by other operator.
* May operate videotaping equipment to dub and edit tapes.
* May wire audio and video patch bays (socketed equipment that allows for transfer of audio and video signals between different pieces of equipment, via cables).
* May set up videotaping equipment to play station breaks.
* May set up film equipment to play program.
* May make minor repairs to equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates power press equipped with punch to notch or punch metal or plastic plates, sheets, or structural shapes. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions, aligns, and clamps specified punch and die set into ram and bed of machine, using feelers, gauges, shims, rule, or template.
* Turns handwheel or installs shims to set depth of stroke.
* Lifts workpiece onto machine bed or roller table, manually or by using jib or crane.
* Positions layout marks on workpiece between punch and die.
* Positions and clamps guide stops to run successive pieces.
* Starts ram to drive punch through workpiece.
* May operate machine equipped with two or more punch and die sets.
* May trace layout marks or workpiece from template.
* May be designated according to function of machine as notching-press operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who files records in alphabetical or numerical order, or according to subject matter or other system. Responsibilities include:
* Reads incoming material and sorts according to file system.
* Places cards, forms, microfiche, or other material in storage receptacle, such as file cabinet, drawer, or box.
* Locates and removes files upon request.
* Keeps records of material removed, stamps material received, traces missing files, and types indexing information on folders.
* May verify accuracy of material to be filed.
* May enter information on records.
* May examine microfilm and microfiche for legibility, using microfilm and microfiche viewers.
* May color-code material to be filed to reduce filing errors.
* May be designated according to subject matter filed, such as Change-of-Address Clerk; or according to material filed, such as File Clerk, Correspondence.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs administration of institution, such as prison or youth correctional facility. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates educational, security, recreational, and rehabilitation programs.
* Directs operation and maintenance of facilities, such as laundry, cafeteria, buildings, and grounds.
* Recommends parole or discharge of persons under jurisdiction of institution.
* Directs recruitment and training of staff.
* Confers with staff to formulate and institute policies and regulations.
* Compiles and analyzes expenditures and projected costs, and prepares reports for officials.
* Prepares budget and monitors expenditures.
* May be designated according to type of institution, such as Director, School For Blind; Director, Youth Correctional Facility.
* May work in federal or state prison and be designated Warden.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates electric-screwdown mechanism on rolling mill to set draft (space between rolls) for reducing slabs, ingots, or billets to specified dimensions, using knowledge of rolling practices and steel properties. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads rolling order for dimensions, properties, and temperature of product to be rolled.
* Determines, from experience, number of passes and amount of reduction on each pass required to reduce product to specifications.
* Moves controls to set rolls for each pass, according to draft reading on dial indicator.
* Performs other duties, such as assisting in roll changes and repairing or adjusting mill equipment.
* May calibrate dial of screwdown setting with x-ray reading.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who adjusts and repairs linotype machines and related equipment, according to maintenance schedule, diagnosis of machine malfunctioning, and manufacturer's service manuals. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects machines and operates keyboard to detect potential malfunctions, listening to machine operation for evidence of excessive wear and need for adjustment.
* Confers with operators of faulty machines to determine nature of malfunction and dismantles suspected components, using handtools.
* Repairs, straightens, files, or machines worn or defective parts, using handtools and machines, such as drill press, lathe, and grinder.
* Verifies dimensions of new or repaired parts, using micrometer, feeler gauges, and fixed gauges.
* Replaces repaired parts or installs new parts to restore machine to operating condition.
* Cleans parts of machine, such as matrices, magazines, plunger, and spaceband, according to prescribed schedule, using brushes, cloth, and cleaning agents.
* Lubricates grease fittings and moving parts of machine, using grease gun and oilcan.
* Determines temperature of machine melting pot, using thermometer, to ascertain need for adjustment or repair.
* May maintain supply of type metal in melting pots.
* May operate slug-casting machine to form metal bars and strips for securing type during printing.
* In smaller establishments, may perform duties of linotype operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that twists metal bars, squares, and blades to specified shape. Respnsibilities include:
* Clamps end of workpiece into stationary holding fixture.
* Slides carriage, lowers table, or raises spindle to adjust to length of workpiece and clamps other end of workpiece into chuck or fixture of drive spindle.
* Starts machine to rotate drive spindle and stops machine after specified number of turns or sets limit switch to stop machine.
* May install special fixtures and chuck to twist together two or more pieces.
* Examines finished work for conformance to specifications.
* May clamp end of workpiece in vise, slide pipe over workpiece to prevent longitudinal warping, and twist workpiece, using pipe wrench or twisting fork.
Industry:Professional careers
