- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who tends machine that mixes foam rubber particles with liquid latex and discharges mixture into molds to make products, such as cushions and mattresses. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens storage bin chute to transfer ground particles to barrel.
* Weighs barrel, adds or removes foam rubber particles to obtain specified weight, and dumps material into mixing machine.
* Weighs and pours specified amount of latex into machine and starts machine that mixes ingredients.
* Places mold under discharge spout of machine and fills mold with mixture.
* May grind foam rubber, using powered grinding machine.
* May tend hydraulic press that cures filled molds to form cushions and mattresses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mixing machines, agitator tanks, kettles, roller mills, and related equipment to compound and process ingredients according to formula to make powdered, liquid, paste, or cream chemical products. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs ingredients and dumps, pours, pumps, or shovels them into machine, tank, or kettle.
* Turns controls to achieve specified temperature.
* Starts agitator to mix ingredients for specified time.
* Adds ingredients as specified during mixing cycle.
* Tests solution for specific gravity, viscosity, or acidity, using testing devices, or submits sample to laboratory.
* May cook mixture, using steam-jacketed kettle.
* May pump mixture through homogenizer to prepare emulsions or through filter press to remove impurities.
* May connect waterlines between deionizer, filter press, and vapor and storage tanks to purify water for use in products.
* May drain product into other machine units or into storage tanks.
* May be designated according to type of product mixed as chemical mixer; cream maker; dental-cream maker; dye mixer; liquid compounder ii; ointment-mill tender.
* May be designated: perfume and toilet water maker; powder compounder; powder mixer; roller-mill tender; rouge mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends batch stills to separate, by distillation, liquids having divergent volatilization temperatures. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours specified types and quantities of materials into still.
* Observes thermostat and sets controls on instrument panel to maintain specified volatilization temperatures throughout distillation cycle and to control condensation of components.
* Draws samples of distilled liquids for laboratory analysis or performs refractometric or other tests, using standard procedure and equipment.
* Observes color of distillate to determine when distillate is completed.
* Records operating data, such as weight, yield of products, gauge readings, and number of batches distilled.
* May tend continuous-flow vacuum still.
* May be designated according to product distilled or formed as Ammonia-Still Operator; Crystallizer Operator II; Degreasing-Solution Reclaimer; Glycerin Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates billing machines with or without computing devices to prepare bills, statements, and invoices to be sent to customers, itemizing amounts customers owe. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts blank billing sheets in machine and sets carriage.
* Transcribes data from office records, such as customer's name, address, and items purchased or services rendered.
* Calculates totals, net amounts, and discounts by addition, subtraction, and multiplication, and records computations.
* May make computations on separate adding and calculating machines.
* May be designated according to type of bill prepared as Delinquent-Notice-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends filters and related equipment to wash and filter catalytic chemicals used in manufacturing styrene and butadiene. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pump to force water into and out of tanks containing precipitate.
* Titrates sample of wash water to determine when solution is neutralized.
* Pumps precipitate into slurry tank and wash water to filter press to separate contaminants and recover usable products.
* Transfers containers of filtered solutions to storage or further processing, using hoist or handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who takes dictation in shorthand of correspondence, reports, and other matter, and operates typewriter to transcribe dictated material. Performs variety of clerical duties (administrative clerk ), except when working in stenographic pool. May transcribe material from sound recordings (transcribing-machine operator ). May perform stenographic duties in professional office and be designated Legal Stenographer; Medical Stenographer; Technical Stenographer. May take dictation in foreign language and be known as Foreign-Language Stenographer. May be designated according to department in which employed as Police Stenographer. May work for public stenographic service and be designated Public Stenographer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties of drafter master title but specializes in drawing of plans for installation of plumbing equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends hydraulic press that squeezes liquid from crystallized chemical products and compacts material to facilitate melting. Respnsibilities include:
* Shovels crystallized material into basket of press and positions metal disks in layers throughout material in basket.
* Moves levers to raise basket against plunger, squeezing liquid from crystals and compressing crystals into round, layer-like blocks.
* Dumps blocks into heated tank and turns steam valves to melt blocks.
* Starts pumps to transfer resulting liquid for further processing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of park rangers and other workers engaged in development, protection, and utilization of national, state, or regional park. Responsibilities include:
* Tours areas to assess development possibilities and determine maintenance needs.
* Prepares estimates of costs to plan and provide or improve fish and wildlife protection, recreation, and visitor safety.
* Selects, trains, and supervises park rangers.
* Directs workers engaged in rescue activities and fire suppression in park area.
* Investigates accidents, vandalism, theft, poaching, and other violations and presents evidence before court or designated legal authority.
* Answers letters of inquiry and addresses visitors and civic organizations to inform public of park regulations and available recreational facilities, and to point out historical, and scenic features of park.
* Prepares reports of area activities.
* May maintain records of attendance, permits issued, and monies received.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages animal shelter. Responsibilities include:
* Sets standards for and monitors conduct of shelter employees to ensure that humane philosophy is projected to public and implemented in care of animals.
* Responsibilities include:
* Develops work plans and assigns priorities for organizational units.
* Reviews shelter practices and procedures to ensure efficient and economical use of resources.
* Recommends to board of directors policy and personnel changes and budget expenditures.
* Directs actions to provide follow-up on animal neglect and cruelty complaints appearing to justify prosecution.
* Answers mail and maintains file of documents such as animal adoption and burial contracts and reports of shelter activities.
* Verifies cash receipts and deposits cash to shelter accounts.
* Delivers lectures, prepares materials for media broadcasts, and prepares and publishes newsletters to report agency activities and interpret organizational philosophy to public.
Industry:Professional careers
