- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends one or more machines that crush, screen, and pulverize soap solids and chips to form powder. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps soap chips into hopper of crusher, using shovel or chain hoist.
* Starts equipment, observes operations, and stops machines when malfunctions occur.
* Observes sifting of soap granules in power-driven shaker-screen and removes chunks for further grinding in crusher.
* Places empty drum or bag under spout of pulverizer to receive soap powder.
* Removes filled containers to storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that crush, screen, and pulverize soap solids and chips to form powder. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps soap chips into hopper of crusher, using shovel or chain hoist.
* Starts equipment, observes operations, and stops machines when malfunctions occur.
* Observes sifting of soap granules in power-driven shaker-screen and removes chunks for further grinding in crusher.
* Places empty drum or bag under spout of pulverizer to receive soap powder.
* Removes filled containers to storage area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends grinding mill that crushes powder or explosives ingredients, such as sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal, used in manufacturing gunpowder. Respnsibilities include:
* Charges mill with prescribed amounts of ingredients.
* Starts mill wheel revolving for specified time or until materials are crushed and mixed and rakes or dumps contents into containers for storage or further processing.
* When tending mill that crushes finished powder to grains of specified size to attain uniform ballistic properties, is designated Graining Operator.
* May tend vibrating screens to separate particles of varying sizes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds equipment that breaks up cakes of dehydrated nitrocellulose to facilitate subsequent mixing and packing processes. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds nitrocellulose cakes into hopper of electrically powered cylinder fitted with spikes that break up cakes.
* Removes nitrocellulose for further processing and packing.
* May monitor scale to determine when specified amount of smokeless powder is expelled from machine into tub and to turn lever to stop machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds soap bars into machine that reduces them to chips. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine and conveyor belt.
* Dumps soap bars onto conveyor belt or feeds them into machine hopper.
* Observes operation of machine that automatically reduces bars to chips and discharges chips onto conveyor belt or into tray.
* Routes soap chips by conveyor belt to drying room, or spreads chips evenly in trays and removes them to drying room.
* May fill boxes with soap flakes or bars of soap.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs finished glue from crushing units, and dumps it into containers for shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in casting, molding, inspecting, and packaging fabricated plastic products. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets up and adjusts or oversees set up of machines and equipment used to fabricate products, according to blueprint specifications.
* Reviews production schedules and assigns work.
* Inspects products for defects, such as surface flaws, color, flashing, or die marks.
* Measures product to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as micrometers, vernier calipers, and plug gauges.
* Observes packaging operations and examines containers to verify conformance to standards.
* Trains worker in job duties and production techniques.
* Performs other duties described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in manufacturing molded plastic toys and toy parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets up injection-molding machines.
* Trains workers in operation of machines and assembly methods.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in molding plastic products, applying knowledge of molding machine setup and operating techniques and production machining methods. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads operating logs to identify inoperative injection or blow molding machines, determines reasons for machine malfunction, and arranges for machine repair.
* Reviews production schedules and work orders, and assigns duties to workers according to order priorities.
* Studies quality control reports to identify product defects and directs machine operators to adjust machines to eliminate flaws.
* Examines molded products from each machine to verify conformance to specifications.
* Conducts or directs training of new employees in machine operation.
* Confers with management and other supervisors to resolve production problems.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates steam-heated conveyor press that molds and vulcanizes uncured sponge rubber to form arch cushions for rubber footwear. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads work ticket to determine number of molds and blanks required for each style and size cushion.
* Notifies calender operator of stock thickness and die cutter of dies to use and amounts of blanks needed.
* Selects required number of molds and baskets of blanks and supplies them to workers.
* Starts conveyor press and turns valves to regulate heat of vulcanizing plates.
* Turns handwheel to adjust distance between vulcanizing plates and molds, using feeler gauge.
* Directs workers engaged in positioning blanks in mold cavities and in removing molded cushions.
* Observes operations and examines finished product for defects, such as lumps, pits, and blisters, and to determine if mold cavities are filled and rubber is completely vulcanized.
* Operates warming mill to prepare stock for calendering from which blanks are cut for use in cushion press.
Industry:Professional careers
