- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who sets up and operates mill equipment, such as flying shear, guides, and crop or entry gates, to cut steel products to specified lengths. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production schedule to determine setup or adjustment of equipment.
* Installs knives in shear and guides on roll stands, using handtools and sledge.
* Turns rheostats to adjust cutting action of shear according to specified length of product.
* Starts shear and moves controls to raise and lower pinch rolls, adjusts guides, and opens and closes shear gates.
* Assists other workers in roll changes and in removing cobbles (waste steel) from rolling line.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates activities of designated project to ensure that goals or objectives of project are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews project proposal or plan to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.
* Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project, and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
* Confers with project staff to outline workplan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority.
* Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
* Reviews status reports prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required.
* Prepares project reports for management, client, or others.
* Confers with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.
* May coordinate project activities with activities of government regulatory or other governmental agencies.
* See project engineer for engineering projects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in installation of ship machinery, such as propelling machinery, auxiliary motors and pumps, and steering gear, performing duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles data and records changes in insurance policies. Responsibilities include:
* Examines letter from insured or agent, original application, and other company documents to determine how to effect proposed changes, such as change in beneficiary or method of payment, increase in principal sum or type of insurance.
* Corresponds with insured or agent to obtain supplemental information or to explain how change would not conform to company regulations or state laws, or routes file to policyholder-information clerk .
* Calculates premium, commission adjustments, and new reserve requirements, using rate books, statistical tables, and calculator or computer, and knowledge of specific types of policies.
* Transcribes data to abstract (work sheet) or enters data into computer for use in preparing documents and adjusting accounts.
* May write abstract or enter data into computer to prepare new policy or rider to existing policy.
* May underwrite changes when increase in amount of risk occurs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates power press to trim, punch, shape, notch, draw, or crimp metal, composite, or plastic stock. Respnsibilities include:
* Assembles, installs, and aligns dies in press according to specifications, using feelers, shims, templates, bolts, clamps, and wrenches.
* Adjusts ram stroke to specified length.
* Positions workpiece against fixtures or stops on machine bed or on die.
* Starts press and observes operation to detect misalignment or malfunction.
* Inspects workpieces for conformance to specifications, visually or using gauges or templates, and adjusts machine to correct errors.
* May clean and lubricate machines.
* May be designated according to type of machine as multiple-punch-press operator i; or by function of machine as draw-press operator; forming-press operator i; straightening-press operator i; stretching-press operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates rolling machine to straighten warped or bent metal plates, bars, or sheets. Respnsibilities include:
* Threads workpiece between rolls of machine manually or with crane.
* Turns handwheels or nuts to adjust tension between one or more sets of aligned drive and adjustment rolls.
* Pulls lever to move workpiece through rolls of machine.
* Hammers or pries workpiece into alignment, using hammer or pry bar.
* Examines work for straightness, using straightedge and plumb bob.
* Inserts shims under bulges and repeats process to straighten workpiece to specifications.
* May be designated by product straightened as bar-straightening-machine operator; plate roller; wire-straightening-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists ornamental-metal worker in performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts metal stock to specified size, using shears and saws.
* Bends or twists stock into specified shape, using handtools, bending jigs, scroll irons, and power brakes.
* Welds, brazes, forge welds, or bolts components together at designated points.
* Cleans and builds fire in heating forge.
* Heats and hammers metal to shape, using specified peening hammers.
* Grinds and polishes surface of workpieces to specified finish.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and tests automotive cooling systems to diagnose malfunctions and estimates cost of repairs. Respnsibilities include:
* Questions customer and examines cooling system, hoses, and connections to determine nature and extent of malfunctions.
* Tests and analyzes electrical, vacuum, pressure, and related functions of system components to locate cause of malfunctions, using vacuum tester, pressure tester, voltmeter, and other specialized test equipment and handtools.
* Compiles estimate of system repair costs and secures customer approval to perform repairs.
* Occasionally assists automobile-radiator mechanic in repair of cooling system components, using mechanic's handtools.
* Computes parts and labor charges and routes customer bill to office.
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
A professional who verifies and balances entries and records of financial transactions reported by various hotel departments during day, using adding, bookkeeping, and calculating machines. May perform duties of hotel clerk in smaller establishment.
Industry:Professional careers
