- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who operates battery of agitator-equipped tanks to blend base perfume fragrances for use in items, such as soaps, perfumes, and insecticides. Respnsibilities include:
* Rolls drums or trays of solid material into heating chamber to melt and prepare for bulking.
* Sets thermostat to prescribed temperature and leaves drums in chamber for specified period.
* Starts blower to cool chamber.
* Pushes materials to bulking area.
* Rolls trays of containers or drums of liquid material to bulking tanks.
* Dumps or pumps specified quantities into tanks.
* Starts agitators in tanks and allows materials to blend for specified periods.
* Examines materials in tanks for impurities and to determine if color conforms to standard.
* Places empty drum on preset floor scale.
* Attaches filter press hoses to outlet on blending tank and to drum intake spout.
* Opens valve to drain material from tank through filter press to drum.
* Sets thermostat at prescribed temperature and dumps flaked or crystallized material into steam-jacketed kettle to melt.
* Ties filter cloth on discharge spout, and turns spigot to drain material into bucket.
* Dumps material from bucket into casting trays and allows to cool until congealed.
* Removes congealed cubes or slabs from casting trays, using wooden mallet, and stores in plastic lined containers.
* Draws off samples from each bulked lot and labels it for laboratory files.
* Seals containers.
* Stencils lot numbers on drums or affixes labels to bottles and cans.
* Maintains record of bulking operations.
* Transports drums and other containers on trays or handtrucks to storage room.
* Cleans tanks, filter presses, and other equipment, using solvents, hoses, and brushes.
* May add prescribed chemicals to bulked materials to neutralize acid or control color.
* May blend materials by stirring with paddle.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes soldering flux, and supplies soldering or welding machines with flux and solder. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes flux in crock or vat according to formula, using paddle.
* Tests consistency of flux with hydrometer.
* Carries or trucks flux or solder to machines.
* Cleans reservoirs of spent or stale flux, using solvent.
* Keeps records of solder and flux consumed and salvaged.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes color samples from standard pigments and production pigments, for subsequent comparison of color characteristics, to ensure conformity of production pigments with standard pigments. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out specified amounts of standard and production pigments and places them on glass plates or in beakers.
* Mixes pigments with specified vehicle, such as water or oil to form color samples, using spatula.
* Smears samples on paper and rubs samples with paint scraper or glass rod.
* Writes identifying data on color sample sheets and submits sheets to supervisor for evaluation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes binder fluid used in production of fiberglass sliver or mats. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and measures ingredients according to formula and pours or dumps ingredients into mixing vats.
* Turns valve to start flow of water and steam into vats and starts portable or power mixer to agitate ingredients for specified time.
* Observes temperature charts and thermometers to determine if specified temperature is maintained.
* Turns valve to increase flow of steam or water to regulate temperature of mixture or notifies supervisor of excessive temperatures.
* Dips beaker into vat to obtain sample of binder fluid and delivers sample to testing room.
* Obtains test results and adds ingredients according to instructions or turns valve to start flow of binder fluid into specified circulatory tank.
* Cleans mixing vats, mixers, and other equipment, using water and cloths.
* Records number of batches mixed, ingredients used, gallons mixed, gallons lost, and net gallons mixed for inventory and production records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to mix and transfer acid bath that coagulates viscose solution into cellophane. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps and evaporators to mix bath ingredients, such as acid, softener, and bleach, according to specifications, and to transfer bath solution to storage tanks.
* Observes indicators and controlling instruments and turns valves to regulate flow rate, temperature, and pressure of solution in pipelines and evaporators.
* Tests acidity of bath, using pH meter, or draws sample for laboratory analysis.
* Maintains record of bath temperature, acidity, and operating conditions of equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends agitator tanks that mix chemicals with lime sludge to produce filler used in finishing paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts valves to control flow of sludge through filter screen into agitator tank.
* Adds acid and alum, and starts agitator to stir mixture.
* Tests alkalinity of mixture by titration test, and adds acid or alum as necessary.
* Weighs specified samples of sludge and compares them with standard chart to determine density.
* Screens sludge sample through wire mesh to detect presence of foreign matter.
* Records test results and quantities of sludge processed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing tanks and auxiliary equipment to combine acids or other specified liquid ingredients to produce solutions for manufacturing explosives, such as nitroglycerin, tetryl, and TNT. Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps specified liquids through metering or weighing tanks into mixing tank.
* Starts tank agitator to mix ingredients for specified time.
* Draws samples of product for laboratory analysis and transfers additional ingredients to tank until product meets plant standard.
* Pumps mixed product to storage, tank cars, or other processing units.
* May turn steam or coolant valves to heat or cool product during mixing, maintaining temperature in equipment within prescribed limits as indicated by tank thermometer.
* May maintain records of mixing time, gauge readings, and number of batches produced for shift log.
* May be designated according to product produced as Ammonium-Nitrate Neutralizer; Dimethylaniline-Sulfator Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing machine or mulling mill that mixes lead oxide powders, water, and acid into paste for storage-battery grids. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures or weighs specified amounts of oxide, water, and acid, using barrels, buckets, or measuring tanks.
* Dumps barrels of oxide into mixer or into pit equipped with bucket elevator and conveyor leading to mixer.
* Starts mixer and turns valves to add specified amount of water and acid to oxide.
* Tests sample of paste for temperature, solidity, and density, using probe thermometer, penetrometer, and gram scale and records results.
* Dumps mixture into cart and pushes or pulls cart to pasting machine.
* Records batch weight and starting and withdrawal time.
* Cleans machine, using water and brush.
* May tend equipment to heat and mix ingredients of liquid paste and be designated Paste Mixer, Liquid (elec.
* equip.).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment to mix specified amounts of liquid and powdered ingredients, such as oils, solvents, lead salts, and resins, with paint products, such as paint pigment and paste, varnish, and stain, to thin products. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs ingredients, using scales, and dumps into mixer.
* Turns valves on storage tanks to admit specified liquids into mixer, and starts power agitator to blend ingredients.
* Starts pump to transfer batch to storage tank or clarifying machine.
* Writes identifying code on tanks and records quantities and types of ingredients added to batch.
* May be designated according to mixture thinned as Bulk-Pigment Reducer (paint & varnish); Paste Thinner (paint & varnish); Stain Maker (paint & varnish); Varnish Thinner (paint & varnish).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines and equipment that prepare and blend dry and liquid chemicals to produce flammable mixtures of specified composition for igniter, subigniter, and tracer powders used in tracer bullets. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and measures amounts of ingredients in pounds, ounces, and drams, according to chart, using bench scale and beakers.
* Tends remote-controlled tumbling barrels to blend chemicals, adding ingredients in designated sequence at timed intervals; steam-heated oven to dry ingredients; and remote-controlled ball mill to pulverize dried ingredients, adding required number of rubber balls to achieve prescribed degree of pulverization.
* Sifts powder through silk screen by hand.
* Pours finished mixes into rubber pouches, marks with identifying data, and carries them to storage magazines.
* Brushes, washes, and hoses equipment and premises to prevent dangerous accumulation of powder.
Industry:Professional careers
