- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who verifies moisture content of dried lumber, using portable electric moisture meter. Respnsibilities include:
* Holds meter against ends of lumber or presses electrodes of meter into lumber and reads meter to determine moisture content.
* Removes and stacks pieces that do not meet specified percentage of moisture content.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in reducing scrap wood, stumps, and bark to wood chips or fuel. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects machinery, such as hog mills, hammer mills, chipping machines, knife grinders, and conveyors, to detect excessive wear or malfunctions, and schedules required maintenance or repair.
* Inspects processed wood chips to ensure conformance to plant specifications.
* Trains new workers in operation of machinery.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in reducing scrap wood, stumps, and bark to wood chips or fuel. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects machinery, such as hog mills, hammer mills, chipping machines, knife grinders, and conveyors, to detect excessive wear or malfunctions, and schedules required maintenance or repair.
* Inspects processed wood chips to ensure conformance to plant specifications.
* Trains new workers in operation of machinery.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates trailer-mounted grapple-loader and chipping machine to reduce logs and logging waste to wood chips. Respnsibilities include:
* Controls loading boom and power-grapple attachment to pick up logs and place them on feed conveyor.
* Adjusts speed and opening of feed rolls according to log diameter, and activates feed rolls that pushes log through chipper unit.
* Monitors gauges and adjusts speed and opening of feed rolls to prevent equipment strain.
* Replaces defective chipping knives, using wrenches and feeler gauges.
* May control opening of debarking spuds (tined rotating drums) that remove bark from log before chipping.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to cut and screen peeler-log cores into chips of specified size. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts cutting knives and reciprocating screens to obtain chips of specified size, using handtools.
* Starts machine and conveyors to transfer material between processes and to storage bins.
* Selects cores according to species and pushes cores onto feed conveyor, using pike pole.
* Observes chips moving through screens and makes required adjustments.
* May repair breaks in conveyor belts, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates one or more machines that cut wood flakes of specified size from slabs, edgings, and core logs. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs cutting knives, using handtools.
* Starts machines and discharge conveyors and feeds material into cutters.
* Observes cutting of flakes and turns dial to regulate speed of cutters and to control thickness of flakes.
* May operate lift truck to transport slabs, edging, and logs from supply area to machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates milling machine that pulverizes and sifts sawdust to make wood flour. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads work order to ascertain quantity and particle size of flour required.
* Selects screen of specified mesh and places it on bed of reciprocating sifter.
* Starts hammer mill, conveyors, and sifter, and observes pulverizing and sifting operation.
* Inspects flour samples to verify adherence to specifications.
* Empties sifters, conveyors, or mills with handscoop when overloading or jamming occurs.
* Repairs holes in screens by gluing section of mesh over damaged area or by fastening screen onto frame.
* May sack flour.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who changes knives used in chipper machines that reduce pulpwood to chips. Respnsibilities include:
* Dismantles machine, using hooks and chain hoist.
* Inspects blades, and removes defective blades with handtools.
* Removes chips collected between blade and disk wheel, using airhose.
* Bolts new blades in machine, using fixed gauge to obtain accurate setting.
* Files knife blades.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who changes knives used in chipper machines that reduce pulpwood to chips. Respnsibilities include:
* Dismantles machine, using hooks and chain hoist.
* Inspects blades, and removes defective blades with handtools.
* Removes chips collected between blade and disk wheel, using airhose.
* Bolts new blades in machine, using fixed gauge to obtain accurate setting.
* Files knife blades.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine, equipped with crushing rollers or hammers, that reduces corkwood, cork waste, or bark to fine particles. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps corkwood, waste, or bark into machine hopper or onto conveyor leading to machine.
* Removes wooden sticks and steel straps to prevent clogging.
* Starts machine that crushes and grinds material into fine particles and blowers that force ground particles over shaker screens to remove dust and separate ground material into bins, according to particle size.
* May tend machine equipped with conveyors that convey ground material through driers to remove moisture before segregating particles.
* May pull bags over bin outlets and open outlets to empty dust and ground cork or bark.
* May remove and stack filled bags on pallets.
* May record number of bags and grades of corkwood, waste, or bark processed.
Industry:Professional careers
