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A professional who inspects quarried stone for size and quality, and classifies stone according to standard schedule.
* Measures dimensions of stone, using rule.
* Marks measurements and quality classification on stone with chalk.
* Maintains production record.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who aligns dimension stone on bed of timbers preparatory to grinding, polishing, sawing, or chipping. Responsibilities include:
* Builds bed of timbers on flatcar or bed of machine.
* Signals overhead crane operator to lower stone and guides stone onto timber bed, aligning stone with arm of polishing machine, surfacing machine, or saw.
* Determines when stone is level, using straightedge and spirit level.
* Signals crane operator to lift stone, or pries up stone with crowbar and levels stone by inserting or hammering wedges and blocks between stone and timbers.
* May assist crane operator to position grinding or polishing wheel on stone.
* May measure and mark blocks for cutting, using rule, straightedge, and crayon.
* May spread abrasive material over surface of stone.
* May shovel abrasive material from mill into storage hopper after grinding and polishing processes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic machines that flame-cut and form vials for level from glass tubing. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts tubing in holder to feed machine.
* Replenishes tubing and replaces fill catch boxes.
* Examines formed glasses for defects, such as unclosed bottoms, elongated tops or misshapen vials, and notifies machine adjuster of machine malfunctioning.
* Removes formed glasses to workbench and files points from glasses to leave opening for filling, using half-round file.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine that applies bands of gold, platinum, or color glaze onto rim or surfaces of ceramic ware. Responsibilities include:
* Selects chuck to accommodate type of ware to be banded and attaches it to machine.
* Adjusts band applicator rollers and arm attachments according to width and location of band to be applied on ware.
* Pours premixed liquid gold or platinum into roller fonts.
* Positions ware in chuck and starts machine.
* Removes ware from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends preset automatic, semiautomatic, and manually operated machines to drill, mill, grind, saw, top, head, cut, thread, turn, or groove green technical ceramic pieces for electronic, mechanical, industrial, and other uses. Responsibilities include:
* Places pieces on feeder of machines that are preset and automatic.
* Places pieces in jig or chuck and starts semiautomatic machine.
* Positions pieces in front of bit or tap, moves piece around for boring, drilling, or tapping operations, and removes piece when machining manually.
* Inspects piece for defects, such as cracks and chips.
* Gauges piece on snap gauge or go-not-go gauge and discards defective pieces.
* Cleans pieces, using airhose and rotating brush.
* Stacks pieces on tray or handtruck and trucks lot to storage shelves.
* Records number of machined pieces for production purposes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends automatic machines that cut, grind, or polish glass products, such as glass tubes or glassware. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work orders to determine product specifications.
* Loads product onto machine holding and feeding devices, and starts machine that cuts, grinds, or polishes glass products.
* Monitors machine operation to detect malfunctions.
* Visually inspects parts for defects, such as cracks and chips.
* Removes finished product from machine after completion of cycle.
* May replace worn cutters or grinding and polishing wheels, using handtools.
* May adjust cutter spacing and fixtures to cut tubes to specified lengths.
* May manually grind, buff, or polish glass surfaces.
* May pack product for shipping.
* May clean machine and work area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies heat to surface of granite slab, causing surface of granite to flake and chip to impart pebbled texture to face of stone. Responsibilities include:
* Positions torch carriage over granite slab on roller-conveyor bed of machine.
* Turns thumbscrews to adjust trip switches on bridge of machine to set reciprocation limits of torch carriage.
* Turns knob to start flow of gas to torch and ignites gas.
* Turns knob to start flow of oxygen to torch and adjust gas-and-oxygen mixture to obtain specified flame.
* Turns knob to start spray of water to cool stone ahead of and behind flame.
* Presses button to start torch reciprocating over stone.
* Observes machine in operation to determine that texture of stone surface is pebbled uniformly.
* Observes gauges and lights on panel to detect faulty supply of gas, oxygen, water, or compressed air and turns knobs or presses buttons to make adjustments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that grinds sides of ceramic wall or floor tile to specified size and squares tile preparatory to shipment. Responsibilities include:
* Turns crank to adjust spacing between opposed grinding wheels, according to specifications.
* Starts machine and places ceramic tile into feed device of machine or moves lever to grip and feed tile between grinding wheels.
* Periodically measures tile to determine conformance to specifications, using rule.
* Places tile onto bench for packaging.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends series of milling machines to machine crochet needles from bone blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts end of blank into chuck of machine.
* Starts machine, and pushes lever to feed blank along milling cutter to turn it to cylindrical shape.
* Repeats operation on other machines to form ornamental handle and to cut hook in end of needle.
* Regulates speed of feed of blank to cutters, according to resistance felt in lever, to avoid burning or breaking blank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds asbestos boards into hopper of power shearing and punching machine that cuts boards into shingles and punches holes in each shingle for installation.
Industry:Professional careers
