- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who examines pile wires for defective points and worn areas and repairs defective wires for use on carpet looms. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts defective ends or worn sections from wire, using metal snips.
* Welds corresponding length of metal to pile wire, using spot welder.
* Traces outline of scalloped pile wires on metal strip, following pattern.
* Holds wire against electric grinding wheel to smooth weld and to shape wire according to tracing.
* Stores wires according to size and pattern design.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who installs ship machinery, such as propelling machinery, auxiliary motors, pumps, ventilating equipment, and steering gear, working from blueprints and using handtools, calipers, and micrometers.
* Lays out passage holes on bulkheads, decks, and other surfaces for connections, such as shafting and steam lines.
* Installs below-deck auxiliaries, such as evaporators, stills, heaters, pumps, condensers, and boilers and connects them to steampipe systems.
* Tests and inspects installed machinery and equipment during dock and sea trials.
* May set up and operate such machine shop tools as lathe, boring mill, planer, shaper, slotter, and milling machine to fabricate replacement parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes ingredients, such as dye, oil, sand, sawdust, and water to make sweeping compound. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures or weighs out ingredients according to formula.
* Dumps or pours ingredients into mixer.
* Starts agitator or tumbler and mixes ingredients for specified time.
* Turns valve to drain mixture into barrels.
* Weighs barrel on floor scale to determine weight.
* May clean mixers, scales, kettles, and work area, using rags and solvent.
* May pack and seal products in wooden cases and label cases and barrels.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates shot-peening equipment to shallow form and improve stress tolerance of flight vehicle metal surfaces, according to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads and interprets blueprints, sketches, work orders, and other documentation to determine layout of specific areas to be shot-peened, sequence of operations, and finish specifications.
* Lays out and marks areas to be shot-peened on test specimen or part, using measuring and marking instruments, or fits template over part, scribes pattern, and peels away masking compound to expose areas to be treated.
* Mounts part on jig, rotary table, or in shot-peening cabinet.
* Fills hopper with specific size and type shot.
* Sets up, operates, and adjusts shot-peening equipment to achieve specified contour on test specimen or part.
* Measures and checks test specimen or part to verify conformance to specifications and to determine required equipment adjustments, using measuring instruments, templates, and fixtures.
* Records data on equipment settings and adjustments, such as feed rate, nozzle angles and oscillation, number and size of nozzles required, shot size, and air or vacuum pressure settings, to be used for subsequent operation and to develop numerical control programming data.
* Loads control media, such as computer tape, in control console of equipment, or enters commands to retrieve control instructions from computer data base to operate equipment automatically.
* Observes operation of equipment to detect malfunctions.
* Peels masking material from completed part, and cleans part with solutions to remove adhering scale and particles.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans construction and coordinates operation of facilities for transmitting power from distribution points to consumers. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out substations and overhead and underground lines in urban and rural areas.
* Prepares specifications and estimates costs.
* Makes complex electrical computations to determine type and arrangement of circuits and size, type and number of pieces of equipment, such as transformers, circuit breakers, switches, and lightning arresters.
* Computes sag and stress for specifications on wire and cable.
* Plans layout of pole lines and underground cable and solves problems, such as determining height, location, spacing, guying, and insulating of poles.
* May be designated according to specialization as Overhead-Distribution Engineer (utilities); Rural-Service Engineer (utilities); Substation Engineer (utilities); Underground-Distribution Engineer (utilities)
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that shapes tubular metal stock to form points or magazines for mechanical pencils. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions precut stock into holding device of machine and flips switch to start machine that rotates stock.
* Flips another switch to move rotating holding device horizontally into set of forging dies to shape tube into points or magazines for mechanical pencils.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in machining metal into finished shell cases.
* Organizes production line, determines placing of machines, and plans flow of materials.
* Oversees workers engaged in maintenance of equipment.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who commands vessel equipped with machinery for excavating under water to facilitate building structures in harbors, estuaries, straits, sounds, rivers, lakes, bays, and oceans. Responsibilities include:
* Sets course of vessel, using navigational aids, such as charts, area plotting sheets, compass, and sextant, and orders worker at helm to steer ship toward excavation site.
* Determines geographical position of ship, using loran or azimuths of celestial bodies.
* Directs crew engaged in operating deck winches and lowering dredging equipment.
* Supervises crew engaged in dredging operations.
* Verifies depth of excavations to ensure that excavations are made according to requirements.
* Maintains ship's log.
* Must be licensed by U.S.
* Coast Guard for steam, motor, or sail ship according to waters navigated and tonnage of ship.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in rolling nonferrous ingots into sheets and in stretching, cutting, and coiling sheets to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies dimensions of sheets and coils, using gauge, calipers, and tape measure.
* Examines sheets for defects, such as scratches, dents, and wrinkles.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to process as cold-mill supervisor; hot-mill supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tube drawing machine that shapes and forms metal tubing of specified internal and external diameters. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions and fastens specified drawing die in diehead and plug die on plug rod, using handtools.
* Centers plug die in opening of drawing die.
* Loads tube over plug rod manually, or activates automatic loading mechanism.
* Places tapered end of tube in contact with dies of machine that automatically pulls tube through dies.
* Examines finished tubing for defects, such as scratches, pits, and cracks, and measures cross-sectional dimensions with fixed gauges and micrometers to verify conformance to specifications.
* May taper end of tubing.
* May operate controls to start machine carriage that grips and pulls tubing through die.
* May be required to have experience with particular metal, or type and trade name of machine.
Industry:Professional careers
