- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that automatically assembles, calibrates, and tests thermostat units. Responsibilities include:
* Turns setscrews to regulate speed of machine hoppers.
* Fills hoppers with workpieces and screws.
* Adjusts control device that positions workpiece under screw mechanism and sets depth of automatic screwdriver, using handtools.
* Starts machine that automatically assembles, calibrates, and tests thermostats.
* Examines thermostat units for defects.
* May turn dial indicator to set temperature of thermostat.
* May tend in-line or rotary, self-indexing, multiple-station-and-purpose automatic assembly machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates power shear to cut sheets of floor coverings into tile of specified size. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts stop gauges according to predetermined size.
* Feeds material under blade and against stop.
* Depresses pedal that lowers shear and cuts material into tile.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends twisting machine that forms tinsel strands. Responsibilities include:
* Places spools of tinsel, cotton, and wire on spindles or bobbins and threads material on machine.
* Starts machine that automatically weaves them into single strand of tinsel.
* Winds completed strands on cards by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies metal binding to protect and decorate edges of wooden level bodies. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts strips of metal trim in vertical slots of machine.
* Stands level body on end under loaded slots and closes gate to lock level in place.
* Starts ram that forces metal corner strips into grooves in wooden body of level.
* Examines trimmed levels to detect split or splintered wood, or scratches and dents in metal binding.
* May install metal end plates on level bodies, using drill press and power screwdriver.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds material, such as asbestos or felt paper around mandrel to form insulated pipe-covering. Responsibilities include:
* Places mandrel of designated size in winding jig and attaches end of sheet to mandrel.
* Turns mandrel wheel specified number of times to wind layers of liner, filler, and outer materials, such as adhesive coated asbestos, tar, corrugated and wool felt papers around mandrel.
* Cuts material from roll sheet, using knife.
* Lifts and turns mandrel to vertical position.
* Grasps and shakes tube to drop mandrel from center of tube.
* Stacks tubes on handtrucks and replaces mandrel in jig.
* May manually paste and wrap completed tube in canvas outer jacket.
* May tend machine that winds specified pattern of fiberglass filament around mandrel to produce tubular pipe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that applies adhesive luminous coating to aluminum plates for use as signs. Responsibilities include:
* Places plate on bed of machine.
* Positions precut adhesive material on plate, adhesive side down.
* Positions vacuum head over plate and turns steam valve or starts heat lamps to press and bake plate for specified time.
* Raises vacuum head and removes plate for further processing.
* May cut adhesive material from roll, using shears.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that inserts wicks in openings of molded candles. Responsibilities include:
* Threads wick from spool through inserting sleeve and turns hand screws to adjust wick cutter and control motion of ram that compresses wick at bottom of candle.
* Places candles in holders on turntable and starts machine.
* Examines finished candles for surface defects and loose wicks and packs them in cartons.
* May cut and insert wicks by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that inserts wicks in openings of molded candles. Responsibilities include:
* Threads wick from spool through inserting sleeve and turns hand screws to adjust wick cutter and control motion of ram that compresses wick at bottom of candle.
* Places candles in holders on turntable and starts machine.
* Examines finished candles for surface defects and loose wicks and packs them in cartons.
* May cut and insert wicks by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that cut window shade fabric and rollers to specified size, and install roller end caps and hanging pins, and staple fabric to roller. Responsibilities include:
* Installs roll of shade cloth on spindles of window-shade cutter machine.
* Threads end of cloth through retaining and feed rollers of machine.
* Turns handle to feed specified amount of cloth into machine.
* Depresses treadle to cut cloth and fold bottom hem.
* Clamps shade roller against stop on saw carriage, starts machine, and pushes carriage against saw blade to cut roller to specified length.
* Removes roller and slips cap over each end.
* Clamps roller in pin-driving machine, inserts pin in driver, and depresses lever to drive pin through cap into end of roller.
* Fastens top end of cloth to roller, using hand stapler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends crocheting machine that covers metal rings used as window-shade pulls. Responsibilities include:
* Fills magazine with metal rings.
* Oils machine and threads crocheting needle.
* Starts machine with hand clutch and observes operation to detect malfunctions.
* Clips thread and ties ends as rings are covered.
Industry:Professional careers
