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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
A professional who repairs cooling systems and fuel tanks in automobiles, buses, trucks, and other automotive vehicles. Respnsibilities include: * Pumps water or compressed air through radiator to test it for obstructions or leaks. * Flushes radiator with cleaning compound to remove obstructions, such as rust or mineral deposits. * Removes radiator core from automobile and cleans it, using rods or boiling water and solvent, or combination of boil out and rod out. * Solders leaks in core or tanks, using soldering iron or acetylene torch. * Disassembles, repairs, or replaces defective water pump. * Replaces faulty thermostats and leaky head gaskets. * Installs new cores, hoses, and pumps. * Cleans, tests, and repairs fuel tanks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who binds coils of sheet aluminum from tandem mill following rolling process. Respnsibilities include: * Binds sheet metal coils with steel bands, using hand crimping tools. * Pushes controls to tilt coil onto conveyor for removal from mill.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities concerned with providing technical services, such as electrical well logging, gun perforating, directional or caliper surveying, and cementing, acidizing, and formation fracturing, to assist in solving special oil well drilling and production problems. Responsibilities include: * Advises drilling and production superintendenton specific servicing problems and recommends use of specialized tools, techniques, and services. * Directs organization and training of personnel, and directly or through subordinate personnel supervises servicing operations. * Supervises repair and maintenance of equipment. * Keeps records of operations and prepares reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of airline-radio operators in maintaining radio communications with aircraft and other ground stations. Responsibilities include: * Establishes and maintains standards of operation by periodic inspections of equipment and tests of airline-radio operators Periodically reviews company and Federal Aviation Authority regulations regarding radio communications. * Assigns personnel to individual jobs. * Coordinates radio searches for overdue or lost airplanes. * Inspects radio reports. * Makes emergency repairs to equipment or gives instructions for such repairs. * Examines and operates new equipment prior to installation in airport radio stations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates single- or double-die gear roll-forming machines to rough and finish roll-forming of gears, according to design information and machine operating instructions. Respnsibilities include: * Mounts and centers forming dies on opposing die spindle heads, using handtools. * Sets stops to control traversing of die spindle head to predetermined operating position. * Adjusts each die spindle to form gears as specified and adjusts and locks phase adjustor to obtain designated rotational timing of dies with gear teeth on workpiece. * Positions arbor on machine to form gears of specified diameter. * Adjusts speed of arbor motor with speed of dies to ensure clash-free engagement of dies with workpiece. * Mounts gear blank on arbor and starts machine to produce trial run gear to verify setup of machine. * Feels and inspects gear to detect defects, such as burrs, using gauges and micrometers. * Adjusts machine to correct faulty machine setup if gears do not meet specifications. * Pushes buttons to start automatic operation of machine and monitors forming of gears.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who replaces worn clothing on carding machine cylinders, employing knowledge of machine operation and carding process. Respnsibilities include: * Removes worn clothing and aligns, levels, and spaces cylinder evenly on machine frame. * Marks cylinder to indicate location of wooden plugs and replaces defective plugs, using handtools. * Cleans surface of cylinder with solvent to remove oil and rust. * Tapers end of card clothing fillets with knife so strips can be wound parallel over circumference of cylinder. * Tacks end of fillet to cylinder plugs and guides fillet as fillet is wound onto cylinder, packing each strand tightly against preceding strand. * Tacks fillet to cylinder at specified intervals along chalked line. * May grind reclothed cylinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles flight time record of flight officers for payroll and crew-scheduling departments to ensure accuracy of payroll and legality of flights. Responsibilities include: * Posts data, such as time in flight, type of aircraft, mileage flown, and weight of aircraft, onto flight time records, using posting machine. * Reviews union agreements to ascertain payroll factors, such as meal expense allowance, billeting allotment, and rates of pay. * Computes pay (payroll clerk). * Compares figures with flight officers' logs to detect and reconcile discrepancies. * Notifies crew schedulers of total accumulated flight time of each officer and submits pay records to payroll section.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates rolling mill to flatten, temper, and reduce gauge of steel strip, following rolling orders and using measuring instruments. Respnsibilities include: * Reads rolling order to determine setup and work sequence. * Calculates draft (space between rolls) and roll speed for each mill stand to roll strip to specified dimensions and temper. * Turns controls to adjust roll speed, draft, and tension of strip between reels of coiling mechanism. * Installs guides, guards, and cooling equipment in stands, using handtools. * Starts mill to roll test strip and adjusts roll screws, hydraulic sprays, and mill speeds. * Moves controls to start production rolling of steel strip. * Examines steel for surface defects, such as cracks and scratches. * Verifies dimensions of steel for conformance to specifications, using micrometers, thickness gauges, and measuring tape. * Directs other workers in changing rolls, operating mill equipment, removing coils, and banding and loading strip steel. * May be designated according to type of mill operated as reversing-mill roller; tandem-mill roller. * May operate mill to temper steel strip and be designated temper-mill roller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who heats steel rods in furnace preparatory to forging boat or track spikes. Respnsibilities include: * Shoves rods into furnace and spaces them evenly with pry bar to ensure uniform heating. * Pushes heated rods from furnace, using cold rod, on signal from spike-machine feeder. * May adjust furnace temperature control, clean, and lubricate equipment as specified.
Industry:Professional careers