- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates, through supervisory personnel, activities of track maintenance crews of railway system. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes engineering data and inspects repair site to determine priority of proposed track repair and maintenance projects.
* Coordinates scheduling of track maintenance and activities within designated region.
* Determines frequency of track use and project costs, utilizing computerized data and knowledge of railroad operations and maintenance expense to formulate recommendations for revising established project priorities.
* Reviews production reports and confers with engineering personnel to identify causes of low productivity of repair crews.
* Visits work sites to observe work crews and to inspect repairs.
* Directs engineering supervisors to correct substandard repairs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates power loom to weave wire cloth for products, such as industrial cloths, filters, sieves, or strainers. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews specifications to determine quantity, type, and size wire required.
* Lifts spools of wire, and places them on spindles of creel.
* Verifies specified size of wire, using micrometer.
* Fastens wire ends to back beam of loom.
* Starts beam motor to wind and transfer wire from creel to beam.
* Threads warp wires individually through heddles, between teeth of comb, and fastens ends to roller.
* Adjusts spring of loom to required tension, using wrench.
* Inserts bobbin in shuttle, fastens shoot wire end to roller and pushes switch to start loom.
* Observes loom operation to detect faulty weaving and wire breaks.
* Reweaves and ties broken wires, using pick and magnifying glass.
* Counts mesh of woven cloth to ensure that specifications are met, using pick and counting glass.
* Removes roll of finished cloth from loom, using electric powered lift.
* May wind bobbins while loom is in operation.
* May cut off strip of wire cloth, using scissors or shears for quality control inspection prior to start of production.
* May maintain records of production and non-repairable cloth defects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shovels specified chemicals into tank of heated water to dissolve chemicals preparatory to charging mixing kettle that produces optical brightener (organic white dye) for soaps and fabrics.
* Moves drums of chemicals to work area, using handtruck.
* May read work orders to determine type and amount of chemicals to add to kettle.
* May be designated according to material produced as Optical-Brightener-Maker Helper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up automatic spline roll-forming machines to cold-form splines on gear shafts according to machine setup instructions and knowledge of operational capabilities of machine, using handtools and gauges. Respnsibilities include:
* Places shims to position die-racks (used to form teeth on splines by pressure-rolling action) at specified height and verifies position with micrometer.
* Turns knob to adjust vernier gauges and obtain specified spacing of die mounts.
* Places die-racks in mounts and clamps racks in position.
* Places spline blank between machine centers and positions machine tailstock to accommodate length of workpiece.
* Starts and cycles machine to verify operation specified.
* Inspects trial run splines for conformance to specifications, using micrometer and gauges.
* Adjusts machine to correct faulty setup if splines do not meet specifications.
* May set up roll-forming machines to cold-form threads on gear shaft and be designated thread-rolling machine job setter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fills orders for currency and coins, and counts and records cash deposits in vault of commercial bank. Responsibilities include:
* Counts currency, coins, and checks received for deposit in vault from business or branch bank, by hand and using currency-counting machine.
* Totals currency and checks, using computer or calculator, to verify amount on deposit slip or other form.
* Records deposit in customer account record.
* Removes specified amount of currency and coins from vault and places cash in bag for shipment to business or branch bank.
* Records amount of cash shipped.
* Counts and records large denomination bills, mutilated currency, and food stamps, by hand and using currency-counting machine, for shipment to Federal Reserve Bank.
* Balances transactions for day, using computer or calculator, and records results.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers in duplicating department. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes requisitions for duplicating to determine method of reproduction, based on requested completion date, and availability and specialization of machines and machine operators.
* Keeps file indicating priority, date due, and status of job.
* Examines material in process and suggests improved methods of reproduction.
* Oversees machine preventive-maintenance program.
* May confer with persons requesting printing or duplicating to determine preference of methods and materials.
* May keep stock of duplicating material and requisition material.
* May keep supply of standard forms and issue forms on requisition.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise workers engaged in making microfilm or microfiche copies of records and be designated Micrographics-Services Supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that affixes address labels to advertising matter preparatory to mailing. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts wing (feed guides) to accommodate size of article to be labeled and places stack of unlabeled articles between guides.
* Mounts roll of preaddressed labels onto machine spindle.
* Fills reservoir with water or paste.
* Moves handle and turns rubber wheel to feed label over roller or brush that applies water or paste and under blade that automatically cuts labels from roll and applies label to mailing piece.
* Removes labeled article from machine and stacks on table, exposing unlabeled article for labeling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains traveling cleaners that blow dust and lint from production machinery and work area. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines motor and attachments of cleaner to determine repairs needed.
* Replaces worn parts, such as blower sleeves.
* Removes motors requiring major repair and replaces them with new or rebuilt motors, using handtools.
* Regulates speed of cleaning unit to ensure effective cleaning.
* Oils and greases parts of cleaner.
* Cleans motor, blower, sleeves, and monorail, using rags, brushes, and airhose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that extracts salicylic acid from sodium salicylate solution by precipitation and dries salicylic acid by centrifugal force. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves to pump sodium salicylate solution and required amount of sulfuric acid into extractor columns that absorb phenol from solution and cause precipitation of salicylic acid crystals.
* Opens steam valves to heat extractors to specified temperature to increase rate of precipitation of salicylic acid.
* Pumps off solution of sulfuric acid and phenol, and pumps slurry of salicylic acid through cooler to centrifugal drier.
* Tends centrifugal drier that forces out water to dry salicylic acid.
* Removes salicylic acid from drier and places acid into containers, using scraper and shovel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who services, repairs, and maintains deep submergence vehicle (small noncombatant submarine) and assists deep submergence vehicle operator in predive and postdive inspection and operation of vehicle.
* Connects high pressure air and oxygen hoses from land based equipment to vehicle.
* Services vehicle with oil and hydraulic fluid.
* Connects cables to and charges vehicle's battery.
* Inspects and replaces seals, gaskets, hoses, tubing, hydraulic motors, pumps, valves, filters, and other specified equipment and components aboard vehicle.
* Conducts detailed predive and postdive tests of mechanical, life supporting, electrical, and hydraulic systems.
* May drive vehicle and supervise subordinates.
Industry:Professional careers
