- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in shearing, inspecting, and leveling steel sheet and plate to specified dimensions, and in storing and shipping finished sheet and plate.
* Gives workers directions in setting up machines to fabricate material meeting customer requirements and examines material for conformance to specifications.
* Trains new employees.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates one or variety of electrically powered typewriting machines equipped with changeable type fonts to typeset master copies, such as stencils, direct plates, photo-offsets, and tracings, for reproduction of copies having printed appearance. Responsibilities include:
* Plans layout of page elements (illustrations, headlines, and text) from rough draft or specifications, using knowledge of design.
* Pastes up preprinted type and reproduction proofs on master layout, using paste and brush.
* Determines size and style of type, horizontal and vertical spacing, and margins, using knowledge of typesetting.
* Calculates anticipated dimensions of photo-offset copy to be enlarged or reduced, using arithmetic percentages.
* Attaches fonts to type holder.
* Attaches gear to platen to control spacing between lines.
* Moves lever to control spacing between characters.
* Sets stops to control right margin.
* Changes style and size of type by pressing type-change key and turning font from reserve to typing position.
* May draw decorative or illustrative designs on copy.
* May lay out and rule forms and charts, using drafting tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates reeling machine to round out and burnish inside and outside surfaces of seamless steel tubes. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets distance between rolls according to size of pipe shell and positions mandrel support bar between rolls.
* Installs specified plug on mandrel.
* Moves controls to push tube along conveyor, through stationary guides, and into rotating rolls that force tube over mandrel.
* Turns handwheel to maintain roll pressure on pipe shell to smooth surfaces and round out tube to specified diameter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in heating, forming, and welding flat steel strips (skelp) to produce butt-welded pipe by continuous welding process.
* Examines pipe for conformance to dimensional specifications, using gauge and measuring tape.
* Records production.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who diagnoses mechanical failures and repairs tractors and tractor components according to manuals, factory specifications, and knowledge of engine performances, using handtools, power tools, and testing instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Attaches compression, ignition, and timing test instruments to certain parts of tractor, using clamps and handtools.
* Starts engine dials and reads meters and gauges of testing equipment to diagnose engine malfunction.
* Removes and disassembles engine, transmission, and clutches, using hoists, jacks, and mechanic's handtools.
* Inspects parts for damage, and verifies dimensions and clearances of parts for conformance to factory specifications, using gauges, such as calipers, and micrometers.
* Replaces or repairs worn or damaged parts.
* Grinds valves, relines and adjusts brakes, tightens body bolts, aligns wheels, and tunes engine.
* May weld defective body or frame parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who replaces paper-making machine clothing (conveyor belts) with material, such as canvas, felt, and wire-mesh. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews clothing service records of each machine to determine when replacements should be made.
* Examines clothing for defects, such as worn spots, tears, holes, and rotted areas, and schedules times for change or repair.
* Lifts feed, tension, press, and drier rolls from machine frame, using hoist, wrench, and pinchbar, assisted by machine crew.
* Removes lacing from worn canvas and felt belts and unwinds them from machine rolls.
* Pulls worn continuous wire mesh belt from machine over end of rolls.
* Threads canvas and felt belts around rolls and laces ends together or slides and pushes continuous wire mesh belt over end of rolls, into position on machine.
* Repositions rolls on machine frame and starts machine.
* Moves levers and turns handwheels to adjust speed and pressure of rolls and tension of clothing.
* Maintains service record of clothing used.
* May wash, repair, and store clothing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends solvent extraction equipment that extracts oil from rice bran, soybeans, and cottonseeds. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes temperature and steam pressure gauges, flowmeters and ammeters, and turns valves or handwheels to regulate temperature and flow of material in equipment within specified limits.
* Tests samples of material for conformity to plant standards, using scales, moisture meter, and hydrometer, or by titration.
* Records indicator readings and test results.
* May clean filter plates of extractor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who markets clients' manuscripts to editors, publishers, and other buyers. Responsibilities include:
* Reads and appraises manuscripts and suggests revisions.
* Contacts prospective purchaser of material, basing selection upon knowledge of market and specific content of manuscript.
* Negotiates contract between publisher and client.
* Usually works on commission basis.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls shrink-pit furnace to assemble hoops and liners to tubes to form cannon barrels. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions steel blocks in shrink-pit to form angle for subsequent positioning of tube so that breech end of tube will be at floor level.
* Cleans and oils contact surfaces of parts with gasoline, oil, and graphite to facilitate assembly.
* Lowers hoops into furnace, using hoist.
* Moves furnace controls and observes thermocouple pyrometer and recording potentiometer to heat furnace to specified temperature.
* Guides cold tube, lowered by crane, through hot hoops in furnace.
* Turns water valve on cooling ring and lowers ring into furnace, using hoist, to spray hoops and shrink them onto tube.
* Reheats hoop and tube assembly, guides liner into tube, and regulates water spray to shrink tube onto liner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of customs collection district personnel and cooperates with officials of other government agencies to enforce federal customs laws and collections, under supervision of district customs director. Responsibilities include:
* Dictates correspondence and prepares or verifies district reports.
* Answers inquiries of confidential or technical nature.
* Confers with officials of other government agencies to effect mutual cooperation in enforcement activities.
* Reviews civil case reports on customs violations to determine disposition.
* Schedules training and work assignments.
* Serves as consultant to district customs director.
Industry:Professional careers
