- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who straightens metal plates, weldments, and structural shapes or preheats them preparatory to welding or bending, using torch. Responsibilities include:
* Selects torch tip from data charts according to thickness, area, and temperature of metal to heat.
* Screws tip on torch and connects hoses from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas, such as acetylene.
* Turns levers to activate flow of gas, lights flame, and adjusts mixture to obtain desired size and color of flame.
* Holds or guides flame along surface of workpiece to heat and expand metal, to achieve specified straightness, or until color indicates sufficient heating for welding or machine straightening or bending.
* Measures workpiece with straightedge or template to ensure conformance with specifications.
* May hammer out bulges and bends.
* May place workpiece into heating furnace for specified period of time, using jib of crane.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up, controls and monitors television broadcasting equipment to transmit television programs and station breaks to viewing audience. Responsibilities include:
* Reads television programming log to ascertain name of program or station break, and at what time program or station break is scheduled to air.
* Verifies voice-over recording, using tape equipment, and informs supervisor of inconsistencies.
* Loads videotape equipment with videotapes containing program or station break or presses button on switching equipment to access videotape equipment.
* Subtracts $T3preroll$T1 time from on-air time to determine at what time to begin preroll.
* Turns video and color monitors on and presses button to start videotape equipment.
* Observes scales in video and color monitors and turns knobs to set video and color levels to specifications.
* Turns knob to set audio level to specification.
* Observes clock, and presses buttons on switching equipment to begin preroll and to transmit program or station break to viewing audience.
* Observes on-air monitor to ascertain problems with transmission, such as loss of audio or video signals, and presses buttons to access and transmit technical difficulties sign or station identification to viewing audience.
* Presses buttons to access voice-over recording indicating nature of problem, name of station or name of next scheduled program.
* Troubleshoots equipment and observes lights on transmitter control panel to determine cause and area of problem and informs engineering personnel of transmission problems.
* Records onto television programming log actual time program or station break was aired.
* Prepares report describing problems encountered during transmission of program or station break and reason for problems.
* May control transmitting equipment to route television program to affiliated station.
* May take and record transmitter readings onto transmitter log.
* May be required to hold license issued by Federal Communications Commission.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who hand polishes optical elements, such as lenses, prisms, and optical flats, to finish element or remove defects, using jeweler's rouge, polishing cloth or device, precision measuring instruments, and jeweler's lathe. Responsibilities include:
* Examines surface of element to detect defects, such as stains and scratches, and measures element to determine amount of finish required, using precision measuring instruments.
* Rubs rouge onto chamois, using jeweler's rouge stick, or onto polishing device mounted on workbench, using sponge.
* Rubs chamois over surface of element or oscillates element against polishing device to remove defects from element.
* Mounts element on spindle of jeweler's lathe, starts lathe, and holds rouge-coated chamois against element to finish element.
* Verifies dimensions of finished element, using precision measuring instruments, and examines elements to ensure all defects have been corrected, using magnifying glass.
* Cleans finished elements, using lens cleaning solution, cloth, and paper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles, repairs, tests, and maintains still and motion picture cameras and photographic equipment according to customer, blueprint, or work order specifications, using handtools, bench machines, and test equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Reads diagrammatic and verbal specifications to determine repairs needed and sequence of operations.
* Inspects cameras and equipment to locate defects, using jewelers' loupe.
* Disassembles cameras to gain access to defects.
* Tests focus of lens system, using optical measuring equipment, and adjusts and repairs lens system to correct defective focusing, using handtools.
* Measures camera shutter speed, using electronic measuring instrument, and adjusts shutter mechanism to manufacturer's specifications, using handtools.
* Compares light meter readings with readings of light measuring instrument to verify accuracy of camera light meters.
* Adjusts light meters to correct defective readings, using handtools.
* Measures operating speed of movie cameras, using frequency counter and turns camera speed control, using screwdriver, to correct defective operation.
* Cleans and lubricates cameras and polishes camera lenses, using air gun, ultrasonic cleaning device, cloth, syringe, and tissue paper.
* May fabricate parts for cameras and related equipment, using machines, such as bench lathe, milling machines, cutters, and grinders.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates automated cutting machine to cut assorted materials, such as graphite, bleeder and breather cloth, and fiberglass, used in manufacturing composite (fiber reinforced plastic) aircraft parts and assemblies. Responsibilities include:
* Reads cutting requests to determine job specifications, such as part identification number, type and quantity of material required, and cutting instructions.
* Mounts material onto machine fixture or dispensing device, manually or using overhead crane and handtools.
* Pulls specified length of material over machine cutting table and cuts material, using knife.
* Positions material on machine cutting table, following blueprints, sketches, and other specifications, using measuring instruments.
* Pulls and positions additional plies of material onto cutting table.
* Positions cutter above material plies in specified location.
* Loads machine control media or enters commands in computer control console to retrieve preprogrammed cutting instructions.
* Enters commands to activate vacuum that secures materials to table, identify cutter location coordinates, and start machine.
* Monitors operation of cutting machine to detect malfunctions and informs supervisor or programmer of problem.
* Removes cut plies from table, marks part identification on plies, and bags and labels cut material for subsequent production use.
* Sets up and operates machine to cut test pattern from sample material, and obtains approval of test pattern by quality control, programming, or other authorized personnel prior to cutting production materials.
* Removes and replaces broken or worn blades, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabricating watch mainsprings.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles drapery rods to customer's order in retail establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Bends rod to customer's specifications to ensure proper fit in window boxes and offsets.
* Installs drapery pull cords, drapery carriers, master carriers, and end pulleys on drapery rod.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and rough finishes surfaces of casting, using powered grinding wheel mounted on counterbalanced frame. Responsibilities include:
* Positions casting under grinding wheel manually or using crane or hoist.
* Grabs grinder handles and pulls wheel down against casting to remove projections, such as gates, fins, and parting lines, from surface.
* Repositions casting to grind other areas.
* May change position of belts on motor and pulleys to increase revolutions per minute when grinding wheel wears down.
* May remove cracks in surfaces of ingots, billets, and forgings, using grinder.
* May grind castings, using stationary grinder and be designated stand grinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabrication, assembly, and loading of ammunition and ammunition components. Responsibilities include:
* Interprets and enforces safety regulations.
* Devises mechanical methods for production processes.
* Trains workers in operation of machines and equipment.
* Directs inspection and gauging of processed or stored materials.
* May supervise ammunition reclamation and reloading activities and be designated renovation-plant supervisor.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
