- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabrication of abrasive products, such as wheels, belts, and rolls. Responsibilities include:
* Patrols work area to detect malfunctioning machines.
* Directs adjustment and repair of faulty machines and equipment.
* Trains workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabricating skis. Responsibilities include:
* Trains workers in operation of machines and equipment.
* Requisitions supplies.
* Examines skis to verify conformance to standards.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to department or operation supervised as core shop supervisor; finishing supervisor; sanding supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers in paint department of wooden pencil factory. Responsibilities include:
* Orders paint for pencils from laboratory and verifies color of paint against standard color samples.
* Inspects pencils for evenness of applied coating and surface irregularities, such as nicks or scratches, to determine machine adjustment.
* Notifies set-up mechanic of needed adjustments on paint machines.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May set up and adjust paint machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and maintains in operating adjustment machines and equipment, such as capacitor-pack-winding machine, electrode cutter, spot welders, name-plate stamping machine, and induction heating unit. Responsibilities include:
* Receives instructions from supervisor regarding size, number, and type of capacitors to be produced.
* Arranges work benches and assembly lines to facilitate production.
* Inserts material into feed mechanism of machines and measures distance between points to set stops on machine, using rule.
* Secures dogs on dials of counting mechanism to indicate stops during winding operations.
* Installs machine cutting tools and welding electrodes.
* Adjusts setscrews to obtain tension on holding devices, using handtools.
* Makes trial run to ensure proper setting and informs operator regarding production requirements and machine operation.
* Inspects products to locate malfunctions in machine operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts machines used to cut materials and fabricate brushes. Responsibilities include:
* Changes and adjusts cutting blades, drills, feed mechanisms, and machine speeds according to specifications, using handtools.
* Verifies adjustments, using fixed gauges.
* Inspects machines for malfunction and replaces worn or broken parts, using handtools.
* Lubricates moving parts, using oilcan.
* May be designated according to machine maintained as brush-fabricating-machine setter; brush-trimming-machine setter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up, adjusts, and maintains machines to make flares and stems, seal stems to bulbs, or seal exhaust tubing to bulbs in manufacture of electron tubes and light bulbs. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts specified types and sizes of machine parts, such as cutter, revolving heads, bulb loader, tubing loader, burners, and etching stamp, using handtools.
* Lights burners and adjusts gas, air, oxygen and hydrogen valves to attain specified cone, color, and density of flames.
* Starts machine and deposits bulbs, tubing, or other glass parts into hoppers that automatically feed parts into heads of rotating turret, or inserts bulbs and glass parts into sockets of conveyor or molds of rotating turret.
* Operates machine through trial run and adjusts machine to ensure accuracy of setup.
* Observes processing operations and inspects sample items for conformance to specifications.
* Readjusts valves and machine parts to achieve specified standard of product.
* Maintains machines and replaces faulty parts, using handtools.
* May operate machine to manufacture production parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates battery of machines that insert and glue cork, paper, plastic or aluminum foil in bottlecap shells. Responsibilities include:
* Installs punches and dies in crown assembly machines and adjusts stroke of punches that force lining material into caps.
* Turns adjustment screws to regulate feed mechanism, rate of glue flow, and heating flame.
* Starts machine and examines sample caps to verify conformance to specifications.
* Observes operation of machine to detect and diagnose cause of faulty operations.
* Disassembles machine and replaces broken or worn parts, using handtools.
* May repair machine conveyor belts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts battery of machines that paint, stamp, tip, or trim wooden pencils. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts feed mechanisms, guide rollers, tracks, machine fittings and attachments, according to size and shape of pencils, using handtools and gauges.
* Adjusts controls, such as setscrews and cams to synchronize machine mechanisms.
* Regulates thermostatic controls on heated units of machines.
* Disassembles machines and replaces worn or defective parts, such as circular knives, grinding wheels, and rollers.
* Sharpens machine punches and blades, using files and powered emery wheel.
* Starts machines to test adjustments and examines pencils for defects, such as burns, splintered ends, and nicks to determine needed readjustments.
* Replaces or repairs defective machine belts.
* May be designated according to type of machine setup as coating machines set-up mechanic; heading machines set-up mechanic; stamping machines set-up mechanic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts battery of automatic machines that groove, sand, insert lead in slats, glue, and press slats together to form wooden pencils.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates automatic machine to assemble ballpoint pens. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts feed mechanisms, guide rollers, tracks, fittings, attachments, type, and die according to size and shape of pens and identifying data to be stamped on barrels, using handtools.
* Loads machine hoppers with parts, such as barrels, ferrules (metal tips), eraser caps, nose cones, and ink cartridges.
* Fills machine reservoirs with glue and solvent.
* Mounts roll of printing foil on machine spindle, using wrench.
Industry:Professional careers
