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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabricating and assembling laminations for rotor and stator cores. * Trains workers in operation of slitting machines, power shear, punch press, and welding and brazing equipment. * Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends electrically powered machine that winds wire, under tension, around rotating steel cylinders to form reinforced cores for concrete pipe. Respnsibilities include: * Signals overhead crane operator to position cylinders between chucks of machine. * Pulls levers to engage and secure cylinder in chucks. * Signals arc welder to weld end of wire to cylinder. * Starts machine to wind wire on cylinder when signaled by tensioning-machine operator. * Signals arc welder to weld ends of wire to cylinder. * Pushes levers to release from cylinder chucks, and signals industrial-truck operator to remove cylinder from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes source data and prepares mosaic prints, contour maps, profile sheets, and related cartographic materials requiring technical mastery of photogrammetric techniques and principles. Responsibilities include: * Prepares original maps, charts, and drawings, from aerial photographs, and survey data and applies standard mathematical formulas and photogrammetric techniques to identify, scale, and orient geodetic points, elevations, and other planimetric or topographic features and cartographic detail. * Graphically delineates aerial photographic detail, such as control points, hydrography, topography, and cultural features, using precision stereoplotting apparatus or drafting instruments. * Revises existing maps and charts and corrects maps in various stages of compilation. * May prepare rubber, plastic, or plaster three-dimensional relief models.
Industry:Professional careers
Un soprannome per i membri delle associazioni degli uomini che lavorano negli anni 1820 e '30.
Industry:Labor
A professional who sets up and operates piercing machine to shape metal tubes from billets or enlarge inside diameter of shells according to job order or blueprints. Respnsibilities include: * Selects, positions, and adjusts piercing rolls, which rotate and shape outside of tube, using hoists, wrenches, measuring instruments, and knowledge of metal properties. * Attaches specified piercing point to arbor to form and control size of internal diameter of tube. * Adjusts feed guides, stops, tailstock, and arbor rings according to size of workpiece, using handtools. * Moves levers to control movement of heated billet as it advances through rolls and over piercing point. * Measures finished workpiece to verify conformance to specifications, using calipers, fixed gauges, and micrometers. * May be specified by employer according to experience with particular material worked or machine operated.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains tire curing presses in working order. Respnsibilities include: * Replaces defective bladders and steam hoses. * Saws copper or flexible tubing to specified lengths and attaches fittings to make steam hose. * Cleans plugged vent holes in molds, using power drill. * May perform preventive maintenance, such as oiling and cleaning. * May be designated according to activity performed as bladder changer; mold changer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists motorboat mechanic in repairing gasoline- or diesel-powered motorboats. Respnsibilities include: * Removes pumps, generators, and other engine accessories, using handtools. * Removes engine head and oil pan to dismantle engine. * Removes covers of gear and clutch units or removes entire assemblies as instructed. * Washes and cleans disassembled parts. * Assists in reassembly of repaired engines. * Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment that absorbs gases and liquids into water or other solvents to produce chemicals, such as hydrochloric acid or ammonium hydroxide. Respnsibilities include: * Starts pumps, turns valves, and observes flowmeters to control concentration, flow, temperature, and quantity of coolant, gas, liquid, and absorbing liquor through cooling and absorption towers. * Turns valves to regulate feed of solution produced and rate of steam to purge boilers and condensers to separate impurities from solution and obtain product of designated strength and specific gravity. * Draws sample and tests specific quality and acidity, using hydrometer and pH meter, or submits sample to laboratory for analysis. * Pumps solution between equipment and storage tanks or tank cars. * Maintains log of instrument readings, test results, and shift production. * May be designated according to solution produced as Ammonium-Hydroxide Operator; Aqua-Ammonia Operator; Hydrochloric-Acid Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who processes applications of individuals applying for loans and credit. Responsibilities include: * Interviews applicant to obtain personal and financial data and fills out application. * Calls or writes to credit bureaus, employers, and personal references to check credit and personal references. * Establishes credit limit, considering such factors as applicant's assets, credit experience, and personal references, based on predetermined standards. * Notifies customer by mail, telephone, or in person of acceptance or rejection of application. * May keep record or file of credit transactions, deposits, and payments, and sends letters or confers with customers having delinquent accounts to make payment (collection clerk ). * May send form letters and brochures to solicit business from prospective customers. * May adjust incorrect credit charges and grant extensions of credit on overdue accounts. * May accept payment on accounts. * May keep record of applications for loans and credit, using computer. * May compute interest and payments, using calculator. * May provide customer credit information or rating on request to retail stores, credit agencies, or banks. * May check value of customer's collateral, such as securities, held as security for loan. * May advise customer by phone or in writing about loan or credit information. * May assist customer in filling out loan or credit application.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates electronically controlled sound reproducing and photographic equipment to record seismic waves from magnetic tape recordings of explosions reflected or refracted from subsurface strata. Responsibilities include: * Starts equipment and moves controls to align adjacent recordings uniformly on positive photographic film, following tracings of wave form shown on indicator. * Verifies identification data on magnetic tape container to ensure specified order of sound reproduction. * Clamps magnetic tape around drum of sound reproducer, starts machine, and observes wave form on oscillograph to detect malfunctions. * May develop and print photographic recordings in darkroom. * May test circuits, resistors, transistors, and related equipment parts, using schematic drawings, wiring diagrams, and electronic test equipment. * May replace defective parts and repair faulty connections, using soldering iron.
Industry:Professional careers