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Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cleaning machines, equipment, and work areas in beverage or food industries. Responsibilities include: * Fills container with specified amount of cleaning agent, such as liquid or powdered soap and caustic soda. * Directs workers in cleaning machines, such as separators, pasteurizers, evaporators, driers, cookers, fillers, and washers, conveyor lines, and working areas. * Starts machines and reports machine, gauge, and other control instrument malfunctions to maintenance department. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends shaker machine that inserts small arms cartridges into specially holed plates. * Positions filled plates on conveyor that immerses cartridge noses in lubricant to coat bullets, preventing lead deposits within weapon bore when fired.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends semiautomatic mainspring-winding machine that winds mainspring into shell (barrel) and lubricates bearing surfaces. Responsibilities include: * Opens chuck, inserts arbor, and fits spring assembly over arbor. * Depresses pedal that allows winding and oiling mechanism to wind spring around arbor, and oil spring. * Places barrel over spring by hand and removes assembly from chuck. * May wind mainspring, using hand-operated spring-winding tool. * May reverse mainspring to coil spring in direction used in watch and be designated mainspring-reverse winder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and tests thermostat bellows for conformance to established standards, using test stand and charts. Responsibilities include: * Examines bellows for surface defects, such as dents, cracks, or pits. * Inserts bulb end of bellows assembly into dry ice to lower temperature of liquid in bulb to below zero. * Connects bellows assembly to fitting on test stand. * Turns dial on test stand to indicate zero reading. * Removes bellows assembly from dry ice and inserts bulb end into tank of water heated to specified temperature. * Reads test stand gauge to ensure expansion height of liquid in bellows conforms to specifications. * Rejects bellows if defects exceed established standards or tags bellows for rework. * Maintains records of bellows tested and rejected from each lot.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches wrist bands to watches, using handtools. Responsibilities include: * Removes holding pins from case, using handtool, and inserts pins into holes in band. * Reattaches pins in case to secure band. * Threads band through hole in women's watchcases, and crimps metal cord ring around band to secure band.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects wire products, such as brassiere frames, oven or refrigerator racks, and wire cloth for conformance with specifications. Responsibilities include: * Places product in fixture, or measures dimensions, using ruler to verify specified size and shape. * Examines product for defects, such as broken welds, chipped or unpainted surfaces, holes, or uneven weave. * Twists and bends product into alignment, using hands or pliers. * Cuts defective sections from wire cloth, using scissors. * Staples ends of wire cloth together, using stapling gun. * Routes defective products to repair shop.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to recondition displacement-type gas meters and governors. Responsibilities include: * Cleans meter case, using wire brush or scraper, and places meter in grit-blast chamber to remove paint and soil. * Removes top, front, and back case panels and valve compartment panels, using soldering iron or gas-fired chamber. * Removes internal parts, including valve covers, valve connecting arms, and recording mechanisms, using soldering iron and handtools. * Cleans internal compartments and moving parts, using rags and cleaning compound. * Repairs internal partition seams, using soldering iron. * Replaces stuffing box, using handtools, and lubricates moving parts, using oil gun. * Attaches airhose to meter inlet, plugs outlet, and observes gauges for loss of pressure to test internal seams for leaks. * Solders top, front, and back case panels in place, using soldering iron. * Connects meter to water chamber fixture to submerge meter in water and observes meter to detect leaks. * Marks seams to identify leaks, using chalk. * Caps inlet and outlet of meter to prevent paint from entering system and places meter on conveyor of electrostatic spray booth. * Turns spray booth controls to paint meter. * Places painted meter in shipping container.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who alters weight of watch balance wheels to correct timing of movement, using jeweler's tools and loupe. Responsibilities include: * Receives movement from timing inspector with indication of rate of gain or loss in time. * Replaces balance wheel screw with one of heavier weight or adds washer of specified weight when movement is fast, using screwdriver. * Repeats operation on opposite side of balance wheel to maintain poise. Replaces balance wheel or files angle of screw point to reduced weight, using hand file. * Repeats operation on opposite side of wheel to maintain poise. * Observes minute parts, using loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in more than one phase of manufacturing jewelry, such as rings, pins, charms, and medals. Responsibilities include: * Assigns workers to stamping, soldering, enameling, or engraving department. * Trains workers in methods of jewelry manufacture, such as model making, casting, polishing and stone cutting. * Inspects finished work to ensure adherence to specification, using sight magnifier, micrometer, and loupe. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers