- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends tanks that impregnate asbestos lining stock with asphalt solution. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads vacuum tank with rolls of asbestos lining, using hoist.
* Turns valves to admit specified quantities of asphalt solution into tank.
* Turns steam valves to heat tanks, observes temperature control chart, and adjusts coolant valves to maintain temperature within specified limits.
* Transfers impregnated rolls of asbestos from tank to oven, using hoist.
* Allows material to heat for specified time to complete impregnating process.
* Starts blower to dry and exhaust fumes from asbestos.
* May standardize width and thickness of asbestos lining.
* May test impregnated stock to ensure conformance to specifications, using brake-testing machine.
* May deliver samples to control laboratory.
* May tend mixing machine to prepare impregnating solution.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties in concrete mixing plant. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies amount of aggregate in storage bins by visual inspection, and turns swivel head to direct aggregate into specified bin.
* Tends electrically powered conveyor or pneumatic pump to hoist cement from feeder hopper, railroad car, or transport truck into storage container, such as cement silo.
* Loosens locking pin, using hammer, to dump cement from cars into storage hopper, prodding cement with pole through trapdoor in car until car is empty.
* Positions trucks, cars, or buckets under spouts of concrete mixers, batching plants, or hoppers, using hand signals, and moving levers or handwheels to discharge concrete into trucks, cars, or buckets.
* May haul cement from storage in bulk or bags, emptying, cleaning, and bundling empty bags.
* May be designated according to duties performed as Aggregate-Conveyor Operator; Bag Shaker; Cement-Car Dumper; Cement-Conveyor Operator; Cement Handler; Cement-Sack Breaker.
* May be designated: concrete-bucket loader; concrete-bucket unloader; concrete-conveyor operator; concrete-hopper operator; concrete-mixer loader, truck mounted; conveyor tender, concrete-mixing plant; dumper, central-concrete-mixing plant; loft worker, concrete-mixing plant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that unwinds wire netting to be embedded in sheet glass. Respnsibilities include:
* Cuts V-shaped point on leading edge of roll, using hand shears, and positions roll on holding frame of machine.
* Signals coworker to feed end of wire netting into glass-rolling machine.
* Splices end of depleted roll of netting to lead end of new roll and places new roll in unwinding frame.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates rotary type machine to mix concrete and fills metal molds to make pipe and other concrete products. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls trip bar and lever on overhead chutes to fill suspended weighing hoppers and cart with specified weights of sand, gravel, and cement.
* Pushes cart of cement to mixing machine and tilts cart by hand to dump cement into machine.
* Turns valve to admit specified quantity of water.
* Fills mold with sample batch of concrete.
* Lifts mold from sample and compares diameter of sample with diameter of mold to determine whether consistency of concrete conforms with specifications.
* Adjusts mixture by adding water, cement, sand, or gravel.
* Bolts pneumatic vibrator to mold, using hand wrench.
* Pulls lever to open mixer chute and fill pouring bucket.
* Positions bucket over mold, using overhead hoist and pulls trip bar to fill mold.
* Starts vibrator to settle concrete.
* Pushes concrete remaining on core cover into mold, using hoe.
* Levels off top of fresh casting, using trowel.
* Records each batch of concrete produced.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who casts concrete burial vaults. Respnsibilities include:
* Places vault handles in lid mold, lifts mold sides, and inserts pin to secure mold sides.
* Pulls lid handles through mold slots and inserts wedge to secure lid handles.
* Lifts bottom mold sides and secures sides, using pins and hammer.
* Greases top edge of mold inner core to prevent concrete seepage from mold.
* Positions concrete bucket over molds, using electric hoist, and pulls lever to empty concrete into molds.
* Slides pneumatic vibrator into mold socket to settle concrete in molds.
* Smooths top of concrete, using screed and trowel.
* Removes pins from bottom mold sides, and pulls sides of bottom mold down, using hammer and pry bar, to separate mold from vault.
* Pulls lever to relax inner core mold to permit vault removal.
* Removes securing pin to lower lid mold sides.
* Scarifies lid surface and applies and stipples finishing cement to decorate lid, using scarifier and brush.
* Transfers vault bottom and lid to spraying area, using hoist.
* Sprays vault with asphalt and colored paints to protect and decorate vault.
* Applies sealing compound to vault lid, using trowels.
* Hoists vault bottom and lid onto truck.
* Delivers vault to grave site, and lowers vault into ground.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects talc crayons for defects, sorts crayons according to length, and packs crayons for shipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Spreads crayons in hands and examines crayons for defects, such as broken, split, or incomplete pieces.
* Separates crayons into grades according to length and defect.
* Packs graded crayons in cardboard boxes and places defective crayons in tray.
* Seals boxed crayons, using tape, and glues label on box.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates ceramic kiln furniture used to support glazed ware during firing. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs domestic clay and grog according to formula.
* Dumps materials into mixing machine, adds water, and allows machine to run for specified time.
* Drains grog from container into molds.
* Removes furniture (setters and pedestals) from mold when dry, finishes furniture with knife and sponge, and places furniture in kiln for firing at specified temperatures.
* Removes fired pieces from kiln to storage, using handtruck.
* May cut setters from extruded clay sheets, using specified shape cutters.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies mica splittings to paper or fiberglass cloth to produce mica sheet. Respnsibilities include:
* Places precut sheet of paper or piece of fiberglass cloth on table and places mica splittings over entire surface so that pieces of mica overlap each other.
* Brushes silicone varnish over surface, using paint brush, and places sheet on table for drying.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes slurry, fills molds, and conveys filled molds to drier to cast refractory brick, using mixer, vibrating table, chain hoist, and related equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads work order to determine product to be cast and bolts specified mold parts together, using impact wrench.
* Attaches chain hoist to assembled mold and moves mold to vibrating table.
* Empties premeasured ingredients into mixer according to formula, adds water, and starts mixer.
* Observes mixture and adds additional water, as required, to achieve prescribed consistency, utilizing acquired experience.
* Fills bucket with slurry and pours slurry into mold.
* Presses switch to start vibrating device on table and adds slurry to fill mold as mixture settles during vibration.
* Draws metal bar across surface of mixture to level casting.
* Stacks filled molds in drier car, using chain hoist, and pushes loaded car along rail into drier.
* Sets drier controls to dry castings according to specifications, and pulls drier car from drier at end of cycle.
* Removes molds from dried products, using impact wrench.
* Cleans mold parts, using brush.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends drying cylinder and hammer mill arranged in tandem to dry and pulverize mica. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to start flow of oil in burner and ignites oil to heat drying-cylinder.
* Starts machines that tumble mica in heated cylinder and automatically feed dry mica into hammer mill.
* Examines pulverized mica for discolorations caused by excess heat and for conformance with grinding specifications.
* Adjusts controls of drying cylinder to regulate temperature and replaces worn hammers to grind mica to specifications, using handtools.
* Changes screens on discharge chute of hammer mill according to size specified for mica.
* May fill machine hopper with mica, using tractor equipped with scoop.
Industry:Professional careers
