- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who scans and feels scrap rubber tubes to identify butyl, synthetic, or natural rubber and sorts them into separate piles.
* Cuts out cots (valve patches), using knife.
* Loads sorted tubes into boxes, and weighs boxes on scale.
* Tags boxes to identify contents and record weight.
* May cut out valve stems.
* May bale depatched tubes.
* May cut samples from tubes and test with specified acid to determine if rubber is natural or synthetic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who scans and feels scrap rubber tubes to identify butyl, synthetic, or natural rubber and sorts them into separate piles.
* Cuts out cots (valve patches), using knife.
* Loads sorted tubes into boxes, and weighs boxes on scale.
* Tags boxes to identify contents and record weight.
* May cut out valve stems.
* May bale depatched tubes.
* May cut samples from tubes and test with specified acid to determine if rubber is natural or synthetic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs out specified amounts of dried and fluffed cotton linters prior to nitrating process in manufacture of smokeless powder. Respnsibilities include:
* Rakes dried cotton linters into weigh cans, removing dust clusters and inadequately processed cotton.
* Moves weigh cans along overhead monorail to section of rail connected with scales.
* Adds or removes linters to obtain specified weight.
* Pushes weigh cans along monorail to drive chain which conveys cans to next operation.
* May regulate drier temperature and speed of conveyor.
* May combine specified amount of acid and preweighed amount of cellulose in dipping pot in which they react chemically to produce nitrocellulose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects molded plastic products, such as bottle caps or tops, for defects, and packs inspected products into shipping cartons. Respnsibilities include:
* Visually examines molded products for defects, such as scratches, discoloration, and flash, and discards defective products.
* Packs inspected product in cartons according to customer specifications, and carries cartons to storage area.
* May attach metal bands to bottle tops prior to packing to form necks for bottles and measure necks to ensure specified length, using gauge.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes wood chips and glue preparatory to extruding particleboard. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls lever to admit dried chips from storage bins into rotary batch mixer.
* Weighs resin glues and catalyst material according to formula and pours materials into mixer.
* Verifies moisture content of chips by feeling chips with hand or by weighing sample of chips, drying sample in miniature oven, computing weight of moisture removed, and converting weight to percentage, using mathematical tables.
* Adds water to mixture if chips are too dry.
* Notifies drier tender to increase or decrease drier temperature to control moisture content of chips.
* Pulls lever to discharge mixture into extruder hopper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures or weighs ingredients, such as sulfur, zinc oxide, stearic acid, and granulated cork, preparatory to mixing into cork composition material. Respnsibilities include:
* Scoops or pours ingredients on scale or in graduate and dumps prescribed quantities into containers.
* Marks or stencils container to identify materials and records quantities and types.
* Scoops samples from containers and delivers them to laboratory for analysis.
* Delivers filled containers to mixing machine, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures or weighs ingredients, such as sulfur, zinc oxide, stearic acid, and granulated cork, preparatory to mixing into cork composition material. Respnsibilities include:
* Scoops or pours ingredients on scale or in graduate and dumps prescribed quantities into containers.
* Marks or stencils container to identify materials and records quantities and types.
* Scoops samples from containers and delivers them to laboratory for analysis.
* Delivers filled containers to mixing machine, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in treating wood products with preserving and fireproofing chemicals. Respnsibilities include:
* Analyzes production charts, manuals, and customer specifications, and examines types of wood, to determine treatment of wood.
* Orders treating sequence, type of chemicals used for treatment, temperature and pressure in retort, and length of time wood is to remain in retort.
* Observes gauges and progression charts to detect malfunctioning equipment; and adjusts controls to regulate temperature, pressure, or level of liquid in retort to correct malfunction.
* Tests wood borings, using laboratory equipment, to verify specified treating solution and moisture content, retention of preservative, and depth of penetration and concentration of salt.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to process supervised as incising supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls one or more cylinder retorts to impregnate wood products, such as railroad ties, piling, telephone poles, and fenceposts, with preserving or fireproofing chemicals. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit treating solution into retort and steam into heating coils.
* Presses buttons to activate vacuum- and hydraulic-pressure pumps that remove air and steam from retort and force treating solution into pores of wood to accelerate treatment process.
* Observes gauges and turns valves to maintain specified heat, vacuum and hydraulic pressure, and level of solution in retort during each phase of treatment cycle, according to treating schedule.
* Pumps treating solution back into storage tank at end of treating cycle.
* Opens, or signals treating-engineer helper to open, retort doors.
* Heats unseasoned wood in retort to remove moisture preparatory to treating process.
* May operate locomotive or winch to move tram loads of wood products in and out of retort.
* May take and test sample borings, using laboratory equipment, to determine if treatment meets customers' specifications or standard chemical-analysis requirements.
* May be required to hold license.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that sprays stain preservative on finished lumber to retard decay and excessive weathering. Respnsibilities include:
* Empties drums of stain into storage tank and turns valve to combine water with stain at specified ratio.
* Turns valve to pump staining solution into spray units, and turns dial to adjust spray on lumber passing on conveyor.
* Examines lumber to determine amount of solution being applied, and adjusts spray units to ensure adequate coverage while preventing excessive waste.
* Opens valves to switch to alternate tank when solution level is low.
* Cleans equipment and work area, using airhose, water hoses, and other cleaning aids.
* Records amount of stain preservative used.
Industry:Professional careers
