- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who assists carbon-furnace operator in baking carbon anodes in pit furnaces. Respnsibilities include:
* Disconnects water and fuel lines from equipment after baking cycle.
* Hooks cable to portable burner, blower, and exhaust manifold, and signals overhead crane operator to lift equipment from fired pit and lower it into alternate pit.
* Replaces gas main covers, flue lids, and port plates on vacated pit.
* Cleans and installs cloth dustbags and vaporizer in headwall and burner respectively, and connects water and fuel hoses, using handtools.
* Fills expansion joints, flue cracks, gas connections, and pitholes with mortar or coke, using trowel and shovel.
* Dumps and spreads coke on pit, using overhead hoist and shovel.
* Regulates dampers and turns valves on fuel lines as directed.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads green electrodes in gas or electric furnaces, packs them with insulating materials for firing, and cools and unloads them after processing, working as member of furnace crew. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps, levels, and tamps mixture of coke, sand, and sawdust on furnace bed.
* Attaches sling to individual electrodes, and signals overhead crane operator in positioning electrodes in furnace.
* Spreads coke over each layer of electrodes and tamps coke between electrodes to insulate them until specified number and layers of electrodes are loaded.
* Spreads insulating mixture uniformly over top of charge.
* Positions brick side blocks on side of furnace with aid of crane operator.
* Signals crane operator in hoisting bus bars into place on electric furnace, and bolts bars to feeders and to furnace terminals.
* Removes bus bars and side blocks after processing (graphitizing or baking) and pokes hole in insulating mix to observe color of electrodes.
* Refills and tamps insulating mix in hole to prevent oxidation if charge is cooking too rapidly; or rakes, hoes, or shovels insulating mix from charge and quenches charge with water to speed cooling.
* Shovels mixture into pile for reprocessing.
* Attaches sling to processed electrodes and signals crane operator to remove them from furnace.
* Cleans residue from electrodes, using airhose.
* May be designated according to duty performed as Furnace Cooler; Furnace Loader; Furnace Packer; Furnace Unloader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls beehive coke ovens in which coal is carbonized to produce coke of specified quality. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to maintain specified temperature in oven and control rate of formation of coke.
* Measures temperature of melting coal in each oven with optical pyrometer.
* Determines when coke is ready for drawing, according to color and length of flame in oven.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates sweater tank to separate liquid from slack wax (processed paraffin distillate). Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps charge of slack wax into sweater tank.
* Opens valves to circulate cold water through sweater to cool slack wax.
* Opens and closes steam valves and reads temperature gauges to sweat (heat) cooled wax at specified temperature levels for specified periods.
* Turns valves to divert cuts (waxes of different boiling points and specific gravities) to storage tank after completion of each run.
* Takes samples and observes melting point of each cut at regular intervals.
* Opens valves to admit steam into sweater tank to melt wax residue when run is completed.
* Drains melted wax residue from sweater into storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates sweater tank to separate liquid from slack wax (processed paraffin distillate). Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps charge of slack wax into sweater tank.
* Opens valves to circulate cold water through sweater to cool slack wax.
* Opens and closes steam valves and reads temperature gauges to sweat (heat) cooled wax at specified temperature levels for specified periods.
* Turns valves to divert cuts (waxes of different boiling points and specific gravities) to storage tank after completion of each run.
* Takes samples and observes melting point of each cut at regular intervals.
* Opens valves to admit steam into sweater tank to melt wax residue when run is completed.
* Drains melted wax residue from sweater into storage tank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests charcoal briquettes at end of processing to verify conformance to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes bag of briquettes from packaging line periodically and carries briquettes to testing laboratory.
* Grinds specified quantity of briquettes, using hand grinder, places grounds into moisture-testing equipment, and observes moisture meter to determine moisture content of sample.
* Saturates stacked briquettes with fire-starter fluid, ignites briquettes, and observes burning characteristics of briquettes and time required for white ash to form over briquette surfaces.
* Places prescribed number of briquettes in burner pot, ignites briquettes, and observes heat sensor dial to determine temperature released by burning briquettes.
* Weighs briquettes.
* Records test results on test report forms.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steam-heated kettle that melts wax and other ingredients to make compound for lubricating lead bullets. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs specified amounts of ingredients and loads them into kettle.
* Turns valve to regulate heat and stirs mixture with wooden paddle.
* Drains melted compound from kettle into molds.
* Empties cooled molds and stores cakes in bins.
* Conveys compound to production departments to fill requisitions, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends heating units that thaw frozen materials, such as coal and coke, in railroad cars. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes buttons to start fuel-feed pumps, heater, and exhaust and air-volume fans.
* Lights oil burner, and opens valve of fuel line to heating unit in shed where cars are placed.
* Lubricates and adjusts equipment, such as pump and fan bearings.
* Cleans working area and equipment with airhose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties involved in emptying coke oven. Respnsibilities include:
* Scrapes coke from coke oven, using iron rod (scraper).
* Forks coke onto conveyor that dumps coke in railroad cars.
* Picks foreign matter, such as slate and slag, from coke on conveyor.
* May fork coke into wheelbarrow and push wheelbarrow to railroad cars.
* May apply brakes or place car-stop to hold railroad cars under coke-pushing machine.
* May place firebrick doors in oven doorframe, using overhead hoist, to close oven.
* May seal doors of ovens, using firebricks and loam.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks involved in sealing coke-oven doors with lute (mud made from clay, coke dust or ashes, and water) to prevent escape of gases during baking of coal. Respnsibilities include:
* Shovels mud into mud carrier and transfers mud pails to ovens.
* Chips old clay, carbon, and residue from doorway of oven, using chisel bar.
* Seals crack around oven door with mud, using trowel and tamping bar.
* Shovels dry clay into dry-clay box on pusher or into wheelbarrow.
* Shovels excess mud, oven spillage, and coal from working area.
* Opens and closes chuckhole door, using handwheel and lever.
* May open oven, using bar, and manually position coke guide in doorway.
* May signal larry operator to charge oven.
* May push buttons to move electric mud car.
Industry:Professional careers
