- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who pilots airplane or helicopter, at low altitudes, over agricultural fields to dust or spray fields with seeds, fertilizers, or pesticides. Responsibilities include:
* Pilots aircraft over field, or drives to field, or studies maps to become acquainted with obstacles or hazards, such as air turbulence, hedgerows, and hills, peculiar to particular field.
* Arranges for warning signals to be posted.
* Notifies livestock owners to move livestock from property over which harmful material may drift.
* Signals airplane-pilot helper to load aircraft.
* Pilots aircraft to dust or spray fields with seeds, fertilizers, or pesticides, and observes field markers and flag waved by airplane-pilot helper on ground to prevent overlaps of application and to ensure coverage of field.
* May be accompanied by property owner when piloting aircraft to survey field.
* May specialize in application of pesticides and be designated Pest-Control Pilot.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates arbor press to press-fit parts, such as bearings, linings, armatures, or wheels to housings or shafts. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs specified holding fixtures and dies on press, using rule, gauges, and handtools.
* Positions workpiece on press bed under ram, manually or using hoist.
* Moves controls to lower ram that presses part onto shaft or into housing.
* May mix white lead and apply it to parts as necessary, using brush, and remove scale, rust, burrs, and excess white lead, using files, wire brush, and rags.
* May be designated according to parts assembled as bearing-press-machine operator; cylinder-block-hole reliner; wheel-press operator.
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 tends machine that presses lead ingots or billets through extrusion die to form slugs or lead wire for processing into bullets or cores used in jacketed bullets. Respnsibilities include:
* Swabs mouth of press with grease and positions ingot or billet beneath ram.
* Starts motor and presses lever to lower ram that forces lead through die and between wheels that cut lead wire into slugs or wraps extruded wire on spool.
* Removes catch box when full of slugs or filled spool.
* May verify weight of slug on scales to ascertain that production specifications are maintained.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who installs and maintains self-propelled circle-irrigation system on farms according to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads work order to ascertain type system to be installed, installation location, and operating specifications.
* Drives truck to haul tools and equipment to work site.
* Raises prefabricated sections of irrigator into position, using truck-mounted crane, and connects sections together with precut structural aluminum and bolts.
* Installs water pipe and sprinkler heads along framework, using pipe-wrenches and couplings.
* Positions, seals, and secures irrigator to pivot of water supply, using crane, wrenches, and packing compound.
* Activates irrigator and observes operation to verify synchronization of drive-wheels, and specified distribution and volume of water.
* Replaces defective water lines, sprinkler heads, and structural members, using pipe threader, tube cutters, welding equipment, and handtools.
* Tests and replaces electrical wiring and components, using test meter, soldering equipment, and wire strippers.
* Periodically repacks pivot and lubricates moving parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to assist workers in forging metal products. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads bars, billets, or blooms into furnace, using hoist.
* Transfers workpiece to and from work stations, such as furnace, hammer, and trim press, using tongs or hoist.
* Removes scale from workpiece and dies, using broom or airhose.
* Trims excess material from finished parts, using handsaw or bandsaw.
* Marks material with specified information, using hammer and die.
* Lifts dies to machine and bolts dies in place, using hoist and wrenches.
* Loads racks, off bears conveyors, and cleans and lubricates machines.
* May work as member of crew.
* Loads radioactive uranium elements into furnace, using hoist.
* May be designated according to worker assisted as drop-hammer-operator helper; extruder-operator helper; forge heater helper; upsetter helper; or by work performed as scale shooter.
* Performs other tasks as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates extrusion press and equipment to extrude and apply flux to wire and to brake, mark, and cut coated wire to form welding rods. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects, positions, aligns, and bolts specified coating (extruding) nozzle, spacers, wire guides, abrasive brushes, cutters, and marking wheels, to machine, using handtools.
* Places slugs of compressed flux into feeding chamber on welding rod extrusion head.
* Places boxes of specified wire core on tilter and pulls lever to dump wire into feeder.
* Starts machine and observes movement of wire through machine to detect malfunctions.
* Examines completed welding rods for cracks, voids, scores, or scuffs, and measures rods with fixed gauges to determine diameter and concentricity of flux coating.
* Presses buttons to alter pressure of ram in feed action or speed wire feeder and turns screws to adjust coating nozzle or to position wire guides, spacers, and brushes to eliminate splits, scores, and burs.
* May adjust controls to maintain specified temperature in ovens.
* May assist in repair of machine and equipment.
* May sort rods according to length.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates buffing machine to recondition drawing, spinning, or roving frame rollers. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts worn cot (rubber, cork, or leather covering) from roller arbor and cleans arbor with solvent.
* Screws arbor guides to handpress and turns knob to adjust press stroke according to length of roller.
* Dips new cot into water to soften glue.
* Positions arbor and cot in press and pulls lever to press cot onto arbor.
* Positions assembled roller between centers on buffing machine carriage.
* Turns carriage-stop adjustment screw to adjust machine to reduce cot diameter to specified size.
* Starts machine and turns handwheel to feed revolving roller against buffing wheel.
* Measures buffed roller with calipers to verify accuracy of diameter and places roller in gauge to ensure that cot is not tapered.
* Cuts leather to specified size and glues edges to make leather cots.
* Presses leather cot onto arbor, using arbor press.
* Presses wooden tool against ends of leather cot as roller turns in lathe to shrink cot onto arbor.
* Cuts cloth covering and glues it onto clearer rollers that clean lint from drawing rollers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends load-testing machine to test coiled or leaf springs for conformance with load requirements. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions spring on bed of machine.
* Turns hand gauges or positions block gauges to regulate travel of flattening ram.
* Pulls lever to lower ram and compress spring under specified load.
* Measures contraction of spring, using gauges.
* Rejects springs which do not contract specified distance.
* May measure spring dimensions, using micrometers, calipers, protractor, and plug gauges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up extrusion press to extrude carbon rods or welding rods and coat core (wire) with metallic paste. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects coating (extruding) nozzles, spacers, and wire guides, according to diameter and length of rod.
* Positions, aligns, and bolts abrasive brush, coating nozzles, spacers, marking wheels, and wire guides to machine, using handtools to set up machine to form rods of specified size and length.
* Pulls lever or presses button to set conveyor speed and extruding pressure.
* Starts machine that automatically coats wire to form rod of specified diameter and cuts it to specified length.
* Examines sample piece for splits in coating or burrs on cut ends.
* Measures diameter of rod and concentricity of coating with fixed gauges.
* Turns screws to adjust wire guides, spacers, and brushes to eliminate splits and burrs.
* Varies extrusion pressure or speed of conveyor, or repositions coating nozzle to vary diameter of rod and maintain concentricity of coating around wire.
Industry:Professional careers
