- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who removes wool from sheep pelts and sorts wool into bins. Respnsibilities include:
* Holds pelt against angled table and pulls wool from pelt.
* Examines and grades wool according to color, texture, and length.
* Places wool in designated containers.
* Scrapes remaining wool from pelt, using scraping stick.
* Cuts off brand marks and wool around head and feet with shears.
* Places stripped pelts on racks or truck.
* May grade pelts before pulling.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and sorts wool fleece according to quality. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts unprocessed fleece to estimate approximate weight of fleece after processing.
* Separates locks of fleece and examines fibers for length, diameter, elasticity, and color to determine quality of fleece.
* Examines fleece and separates locks to determine presence of dirt, manure, straw, stains, and moisture.
* Separates and places fleece in containers and marks wool grade on container according to government standards for quality.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stacks yarn packages on spindles of dye stand, preparatory to dyeing in package-dyeing machine. Screws cap on top of each spindle to secure packages during dyeing.
* Loads dye stands, or beams when yarn is wound on beams, into machine, using power hoist.
* Closes and bolts machine lid, using wrench.
* Removes dyed yarn from machine and positions dye-stand in storage or holding area prior to unloading dye-stand, using power hoist.
* Records weight of loaded dye stands or beams.
* May use compressing device to load dye stand.
* May feel packages to determine dryness prior to unloading dye-stand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in processing electronic components and parts, such as printed circuit boards (PCB's), electron tubes, and semiconductor devices. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines product for conformance to specifications and quality standards, applying knowledge of manufacturing processes.
* Demonstrates methods and trains workers in sequence of processing tasks and operation and control of machines and equipment.
* Maintains records and prepares cost, yield, breakage, and maintenance reports, manually or using computer terminal.
* Inventories and requisitions tools, equipment, and supplies for department activities.
* Performs other tasks as described under supervisor master title.
* May perform tasks of subordinates, such as machine and equipment setup, adjustment, and repair.
* May be designated according to product or department as capacitor processing supervisor; electron tube processing supervisor; integrated circuit manufacturing supervisor; printed circuit board processing supervisor; process testing supervisor; semiconductor wafer manufacturing supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in melting, and spinning slag and flux into mineral wool for use in forming granulated wool, batts, and felts.
* Repairs and adjusts malfunctioning machines and equipment, using handtools.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in saturating, coating, and winding roofing felt to fabricate composition shingles and roll roofing.
* Assists workers with faulty equipment.
* Sets up machines for workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to unit or function as shingle-machine supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparing and applying porcelain enamel to surface of products, such as electric washers, refrigerators, and automobile mufflers, applying knowledge of metal pickling, pulverizing and mixing of porcelain ingredients, and application, drying, and baking of porcelain enamel. Respnsibilities include:
* Computes amount of ingredients required to obtain porcelain mixtures of specified color and consistency, following standard formulas.
* Examines pickled surface of product and orders changes in pickling solution to ensure suitability of surface for porcelainizing.
* Inspects finished product and moves controls to regulate furnace temperatures and conveyor speeds to ensure fusion of porcelain finish.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in dipping, molding, cutting, and packing candles. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies percentage of specified ingredients used to blend molten wax, using plant standards or customer's specifications.
* Observes molten wax to detect irregularities in color and consistency.
* Trains workers in machine operation.
* Requisitions materials.
* 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 seal joints on ends of clay sewer pipes. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects finished work for conformance to specifications.
* Trains workers in performance of duties, such as pouring sealants into molds and trimming excess materials from joints.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes processing procedures and equipment functions to identify and resolve problems in growing semiconductor crystals, utilizing knowledge of crystal growing, and trains other workers to grow crystals. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes furnace operation and crystal growth and reads logbook entries to identify deviations from specifications and procedures, and advises crystal grower on techniques to adjust furnace controls to alter crystal growth to meet company specifications.
* Demonstrates and explains crystal growing procedures to train crystal grower and to improve worker's crystal growing techniques.
* Inspects furnaces for gas leaks, diagnoses equipment malfunctions, and requests equipment repairs.
* Sets up and operates furnaces in absence of crystal grower.
Industry:Professional careers
