- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends hog mill that grinds scrap wood into chips for use as fuel. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls lever to start hog mill and presses button to start conveyors that convey scrap wood to hog mill.
* Spreads scrap wood evenly across trough of conveyor, using hands, rake, or picaroon to regulate flow of wood and prevent damages to hog-mill knives.
* Stops machine and removes scrap wood lodged in throat of machine when machine becomes clogged.
* Lubricates hog mill and conveyors, using grease gun and oilcan.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds hog mill that grinds wood scraps into chips for use as fuel. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads container, such as push cart or handcart, with wood scrap, and pushes or pulls container to hog mill.
* Lifts and throws wood chips from container onto conveyor that feeds hog mill.
* Spreads wood scraps evenly across conveyor to regulate flow of wood scraps to prevent machine damage or malfunction, such as clogged or damaged mill knives.
* May assist machine operators in cleaning work area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabricating and packing cork gaskets. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets up machines, such as grinder, mixer, and punch press.
* Observes operation of machines to detect malfunctions and adjusts machines, using handtools and measuring instruments, such as gauges, calipers, and micrometers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in manufacturing particleboards. Respnsibilities include:
* Analyzes work orders to determine quantity, dimensions, and quality of panels to be produced.
* Plans work schedule according to priority of orders and availability of machinery.
* Inspects machinery and equipment, reviews machine status reports, and schedules maintenance and part replacements.
* Inspects consistency of particleboard mixture and finished particleboards for adherence to specifications.
* Explains and demonstrates job tasks and techniques to new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in gluing, assembling, and pressing veneer sheets and core boards into plywood panels, employing knowledge of production, products, and personnel practices. Respnsibilities include:
* Analyzes work orders and route tickets to determine production schedules and type and dimensions of stock to be produced.
* Computes amounts of stock and supplies required and requisitions materials from storage area.
* Visually examines, feels, and measures dimensions of stock at various stages of processing, using measuring tape and dial thickness gauge, to determine if company specifications are met.
* Instructs and demonstrates methods of work to new employees.
* Confers with supervisory personnel to expedite production.
* May observe pengraph charts and oil gauges and adjust controls of hot-plate plywood press to regulate hydraulic pressure, temperature, and oil level of press.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects logs and verifies their conformance to specifications before and during processing into poles for use in power line construction. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines logs at timber-cutting site and selects logs for poles, inspecting each for soundness and size requirements.
* Tests logs at various times during seasoning period with megger to determine when specified seasoning has been attained.
* Inspects poles after framing to ensure conformance to specifications.
* Inspects test cores taken from poles during treatment and sends sample cores and treating solution to laboratory for analysis to ascertain that preservative treatment is being applied according to specification.
* Gives instructions to workers engaged in shipping and handling poles to avoid damage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines and conveyors to dry, segregate, and treat wood flakes, form them into mats, and press them into flakeboard panels. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machines and regulates flow of resin and wax additives.
* Adjusts panel controls to regulate speed of conveyors, drying time and temperature, and platen pressure.
* Adjusts height of leveling-brush to control thickness and consistency of mat prior to pressing into flakeboard.
* Observes control panel of platen press to determine that panels conform to specifications.
* Weighs and measures sample panels, using scales, rule, and micrometers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who leads workers in gluing, assembling, and pressing veneer sheets into plywood panels, and tends glue mixing tanks. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads work order to determine quantity, type, and dimensions of veneer sheets needed.
* Notifies industrial-truck operator to deliver veneer sheets from storage to gluing area.
* Observes glue application and panel layering, pressing, and conveying processes to maintain establishment specifications.
* Assists gluing-machine operator, electronic, using wrenches and handtools, in replacement of forms that shape panels to customer specifications.
* Notifies maintenance repairer, industrial of machine malfunctions.
* Dumps measured dry ingredients into glue mixing tanks.
* Turns valves to admit specified amounts of liquid ingredients and presses button to begin agitators that automatically mix ingredients into glue.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to perforate wood products, such as timbers, ties, or poles, to facilitate penetration of wood preservatives. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs knife-studded incising rollers in machine and sets roller stops according to size of material being processed, using hand wrenches and pry bar.
* Turns air valve to regulate pressure on incising rollers and starts machine and conveyor system.
* Signals other workers to load or move timbers or poles onto conveyor or powered feeding tram.
* Moves levers or presses pedal to regulate speed of conveyor and opening of incisor rollers to accommodate various size timbers and poles.
* Examines rollers, knives, bearings, and conveyor mechanisms, and replaces worn or broken parts, using handtools.
* May operate discharge conveyor with lifting controls to unload poles onto ramp or into water.
* May operate trim saw to square ends on poles.
* May brand poles or timbers, using branding hammer.
* May be designated according to product processed as pole-incisor operator; timber-incisor operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to perforate wood products, such as timbers, ties, or poles, to facilitate penetration of wood preservatives. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs knife-studded incising rollers in machine and sets roller stops according to size of material being processed, using hand wrenches and pry bar.
* Turns air valve to regulate pressure on incising rollers and starts machine and conveyor system.
* Signals other workers to load or move timbers or poles onto conveyor or powered feeding tram.
* Moves levers or presses pedal to regulate speed of conveyor and opening of incisor rollers to accommodate various size timbers and poles.
* Examines rollers, knives, bearings, and conveyor mechanisms, and replaces worn or broken parts, using handtools.
* May operate discharge conveyor with lifting controls to unload poles onto ramp or into water.
* May operate trim saw to square ends on poles.
* May brand poles or timbers, using branding hammer.
* May be designated according to product processed as pole-incisor operator; timber-incisor operator.
Industry:Professional careers
