- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to process stock (animal skins, splits, fleshings, and trimmings) for use in making glue or gelatin. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves stock to kettle upon signal from cook, using handtruck, and dumps stock into kettle.
* Turns valve to fill kettle with water to submerge stock.
* Skims grease from surface of water in kettle, using skimmer.
* Cleans kettle, using shovel, brushes, and water.
* Packs bottom of kettle with excelsior used to filter broth drained from kettle.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates brakedrum lathe to resurface automotive brakedrums, and operates grinding machine to grind brakeshoe linings. Respnsibilities include:
* Clamps hub and drum on lathe spindle and adjusts cutting tool to machine drum surface.
* Starts spindle and feeds tool into drum by hand, or adjusts automatic feed mechanism.
* Measures drum to verify specified dimensions, using calipers, drum gauge, or micrometer.
* Clamps brakeshoe on grinder and grinds lining to specified arc as determined by new diameter of drum.
* May replace defective brake cylinders and fill master brake cylinder with brake fluid.
* May mount wheel on axle and adjust drumshoe clearance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates spinning lathe to spin (form) shaped articles from sheet or plate metal, using blueprints and knowledge of physical properties of metal. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts specified spinning chuck to headstock spindle and follow block to tailstock, using handtools or power tools.
* Clamps metal disk to chuck by turning handwheel that forces follow block against disk.
* Secures steady rest fixture on cross-slide.
* Starts machine and coats outside of rotating disk with spinning compound.
* Positions, holds, and moves long-handled compound lever tool against disk, using steady rest as fulcrum point, to apply required pressure to form disk over and into shape of spinning chuck.
* Varies amount and location of pressure on disk according to type of metal, shape of spinning chuck, speed of lathe, and temperature and thickness of metal disk.
* Replaces steady rest with bar tool attachment, turns handwheel to set bar tool and cut off excess metal from workpiece.
* Verifies dimension of finished article with steel rule and diameter tape.
* May form wood spinning chucks by turning on lathe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up automatic spring coiling machines to fabricate compression and extension springs from steel wire, according to blueprints and setup charts. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews blueprint to determine setup procedures to follow, machine attachments required, and stock to use, or obtains details from setup charts.
* Selects machine attachments, such as taper cams, wire size block, coiling point, pitch tool, and cutting tool, according to blueprint or setup chart, and installs them on machine.
* Verifies wire diameter with micrometer caliper and threads wire through drive rollers and machine guides.
* Sets cams, turnbuckle, and pitch tool to control spring dimensions.
* Makes trial run and measures sample product for conformance to specifications, using gauges and micrometers.
* Adjusts machine to attain specified tolerances and releases machine to spring coiler with oral instructions concerning its operation.
* Grinds cams and pitch tool to maintain their dimensions.
* May recommend blueprint changes.
* May make tool attachments, such as coiling point, cams, forming tools, and cut-off tools if not in stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in shrinking hoops, liners, breech rings, and tubes of heavy cannons.
* Calculates heating time required to shrink object according to diameter of parts and composition of steel.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in spinning and assembling wire coils to form mattress innersprings and bedspring units.
* Directs production workers and machine maintenance personnel in setting up and adjusting equipment, such as coiling, crimping, and wire-border forming machines.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May set up machines.
* May be designated by department as coil-machine supervisor; spring-assembler supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in repairing, reboring, mounting, dismounting, and turning down railroad car wheel and axle assemblies, according to Federal and American Railroad Association safety specifications.
* Trains workers.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates heavy-duty power press to bend, form, stretch, and straighten metal plates, metal extrusions, formed sheet metal, structural shapes, forgings, and weldments as specified by blueprints, layout, and templates. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans sequence of operations, applying knowledge of physical properties of metal.
* Measures and sights along workpiece, using tape, rule, straightedge, and transit, to mark reference lines.
* Selects and positions flat, V-block, radius, or special purpose die sets into ram and bed of machine, using jib or crane.
* Aligns and bolts dies to ram and bed of machine, using gauges, templates, feelers, shims, and wrenches.
* Turns handwheel or levers to set depth and pressure of ram stroke.
* Preheats workpiece in furnace, using hand torch.
* Lifts and positions workpiece between dies of machine, using jib or crane and sledge.
* Starts machine to lower ram which bends or straightens workpiece between dies.
* Repositions workpiece and changes dies when making multiple or successive passes.
* Hand forms or finishes workpiece, using hand sledge and anvil.
* Grinds out burrs and sharp edges, using portable grinder.
* Inspects and marks job number on finished workpiece.
* May bend or straighten cold metal.
* May set dies to punch and blank heavy metal.
* May operate horizontal power press to bend or straighten long pieces of bar stock or structural shapes.
* May operate press equipped with two or more rams to bend angles or flanges or bend to radius by successive passes; or operate multiple acting hydraulic press to perform deep progressive and reverse draw operations of sheet metal.
* May be designated according to type press operated as bulldozer operator ii; stretch-press operator; or according to shape product produced as dishing-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that joins coil with helical springs to form assemblies for innerspring mattresses, chairs, sofas, and automobile seats. Respnsibilities include:
* Places coil springs in channels on machine table.
* Inserts end of helical spring in feeder that rotates and moves spring toward coils.
* Depresses pedal to start feeder and guides helical spring so that spring joins top edges of coils.
* Inserts spring in feeder and positions spring to secure bottom edges of coils.
* Pushes index bar against row of joined coils, or moves button or lever to activate bar that moves coils forward.
* Inserts coils in channels to form additional row.
* Removes completed spring assembly from machine or pulls release lever to eject assembly.
* Adjusts machine and relieves snagging or jamming, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who starts pump to transfer coal tar distillates to storage or processing tanks.
* Dips measuring rod into tanks to verify quantities of distillates in tanks.
* Moves neutralizing chemicals to work area preparatory to charging of still, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
