- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who sets up and operates machine to cut rolls of paper into sheets and to print lines, glue, and punch holes to make paper tablets. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts feed guides, cutting disks, and punch rams according to work order specifications.
* Mounts roll of paper on machine, using electric hoist.
* Threads end of paper through machine and fills ink and glue reservoirs.
* Starts machine and turns valves to adjust paper tension and flow of glue to paper.
* Observes machine operation to detect malfunction and inspects finished tablets to verify conformance to specifications.
* Records production information, such as quantity, type, and size of tablets produced on work order.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to print, cut, and punch holes in paperboard to form paper tags and labels. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order to determine type of setup required.
* Mounts paperboard roll on machine, using jack, and installs and adjusts specified printing plates onto machine bed, using allen wrench and rule.
* Mounts roll of reinforcing paperboard onto machine, threads end through stamping section and fills machine hopper with metal reinforcing grommets.
* Spreads specified color ink onto printing plate, using hand scraper, and fills ink reservoir.
* Adjusts angle of cutting blade, using allen wrench, and turns valves to adjust timing of cutting blades and punch to specifications.
* Starts machine and observes machine operation to detect malfunction and inspects completed tags or labels to verify compliance with work order specifications.
* Removes completed tags or labels from discharge end of machine, stacks specified number of tags into boxes, and stacks boxes on skid.
* Records production information, such as quantity and type of tags or labels produced on work ticket.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic cutting, curling, crimping, capping, labeling, or tubing machines that assemble paper products, such as spools and tubes. Responsibilities include:
* Presses pedals, buttons, and switches or turns valves to start and stop machines and auxiliary devices, such as glue heaters, curling heads, and air ejectors.
* Dumps tubes, caps, labels, covers, spool shields, or paper strips into dispenser, feeds them onto conveyor, or positions them on mandrel.
* Pours glue into pots.
* Clears jams.
* May stack finished product on truck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically measures, prints, cuts, folds, and glues, or seals plain or wax papers, polyethylene film, or cellophane to form bags. Responsibilities include:
* Threads materials from parent roll through guides and rollers to cutters, gluer, printer, folding device, or electric sealer.
* Starts machine, observes operation, and adjusts machine to ensure uniform shearing, printing, folding, gluing, or sealing of continuous roll of material into finished bags.
* May insert shaft into core of parent roll and secure with steel collars, using handtools, and mount roll onto machine, using hoist.
* May be designated according to material processed as cellophane-bag-machine operator; polyethylene-bag-machine operator; waxed-bag-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically measures, prints, cuts, folds, and glues, or seals plain or wax papers, polyethylene film, or cellophane to form bags. Responsibilities include:
* Threads materials from parent roll through guides and rollers to cutters, gluer, printer, folding device, or electric sealer.
* Starts machine, observes operation, and adjusts machine to ensure uniform shearing, printing, folding, gluing, or sealing of continuous roll of material into finished bags.
* May insert shaft into core of parent roll and secure with steel collars, using handtools, and mount roll onto machine, using hoist.
* May be designated according to material processed as cellophane-bag-machine operator; polyethylene-bag-machine operator; waxed-bag-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends paperworking machines, such as corner cutter, embosser, scorer, stitcher, taper, gluer, punch press, and plastic index tab machine to fabricate office supplies, such as file folders, file dividers, index cards, and three-ring binders, from paper or paperboard stock. Responsibilities include:
* Positions stock against machine guides, starts machine, and depresses pedal to actuate specified machine.
* Manually folds and creases materials that exceed machine capacity.
* Collates printed file folders in numerical order to form set.
* Forms shipping boxes from flattened blanks and glues labels to box tops.
* Inspects finished product and places specified quantity and type into boxes according to packing instructions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically cuts, folds, and glues ends of tubes together to form bottoms in single or multiwall paper bags. Responsibilities include:
* Loads paper tubes into automatic feedrack, fills glue hopper, and starts machine.
* Observes machine operation, removes material caught in rollers to relieve jams, and spot-verifies processed bags to detect imperfections in cutting, folding, or gluing.
* Adjusts feed guides, rollers, and glue regulator, using handtools, to ensure conformity to specifications.
* May tend machine equipped with valving mechanism that automatically forms opening (valve) in top of bag and inserts sleeve in opening.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that cut, ream, and slot paper roll cores made of cardboard, fiber, or metal, according to work order specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and aligns cutoff saw, reamer, and slot cutters in machines according to length and diameter of core, using rule and wrench.
* Starts machines and cuts core to length, using circular saw.
* Pushes core along feeder trough of reamer to ream out ends.
* Feeds core into cutters of slotting machine to cut slots in core ends.
* Inserts metal caps in ends of nonmetal cores to coincide with slots in cores, using hammer.
* May reclaim defective caps by removing them with cap puller and hammering out dents.
* May tend machines that cut and slot paper roll cores and be designated core cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that counts sheets of paper and inserts marker between sheets at specified interval. Responsibilities include:
* Positions skid of paper beside machine counting head, using handtruck.
* Raises paper at corner, using iron bar, and inserts wedge between skid and paper to fan edge of paper.
* Secures paper stack to skid, using clamp.
* Sets counter dial at zero and sets marker interval dial at specified number.
* Pushes button to move counting head into position against corner of stack and starts machine.
* Observes machine operation and makes adjustments to counting head to ensure accurate counting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends multiple-spindle drill press that drills holes in paper goods, such as notebook paper, booklets, envelopes, pamphlets, index cards, and other paper and printed products. Responsibilities include:
* Reads job specifications to determine spacing and dimension of holes to be drilled in paper items.
* Adjusts spacing of drills, positions of backstop and guides according to size of items to be drilled, using handtools.
* Presses button to start machine.
* Jogs stack of paper items to straighten and align edges.
* Positions stacks of paper items against backstop and end guides of machine table.
* Depresses pedal to raise stock or lower drills to cut holes in paper.
* Stacks drilled items on pallets.
* May replace dull drills, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
