- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who traps animals for pelts, live sale, bounty, or to relocate them in other areas. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets traps with bait, scent, or camouflage, and in patterns according to size, species, habits, and environs of animal sought or according to reason for trapping.
* Patrols trapline to remove catch and reset or relocate traps.
* Clubs or drowns trapped fur-bearing animals to prevent damage to pelts.
* Skins animals, using knife, and stretches pelts on frames to be cured.
* Scrapes or skives skin-side of pelt with knife to remove fat and flesh, and rubs skin with salt to dry and preserve it.
* Sorts pelts according to species, color, and quality.
* Removes parts, such as ears or tail, from predatory animals and presents them as evidence of kill for bounty.
* May be designated according to animal trapped as Beaver Trapper; Muskrat Trapper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who traps animals for pelts, live sale, bounty, or to relocate them in other areas. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets traps with bait, scent, or camouflage, and in patterns according to size, species, habits, and environs of animal sought or according to reason for trapping.
* Patrols trapline to remove catch and reset or relocate traps.
* Clubs or drowns trapped fur-bearing animals to prevent damage to pelts.
* Skins animals, using knife, and stretches pelts on frames to be cured.
* Scrapes or skives skin-side of pelt with knife to remove fat and flesh, and rubs skin with salt to dry and preserve it.
* Sorts pelts according to species, color, and quality.
* Removes parts, such as ears or tail, from predatory animals and presents them as evidence of kill for bounty.
* May be designated according to animal trapped as Beaver Trapper; Muskrat Trapper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who traps birds to serve as brood stock, or for exhibition, extermination, identification, or relocation. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects and sets traps, nets, or cages according to size, habits, and habitat of bird and reasons for trapping.
* Walks about area to drive quarry toward traps or net or patrols trap-line periodically to inspect setting.
* Releases quarry from trap or net and transfers it to cage.
* Kills birds or secures identification tag to bird and releases it.
* May locate and flush ground birds into nets, using dogs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cleaning, racking, plating, and polishing of metal or plastic objects. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects equipment, such as hooks, plating barrels or tanks, and racks, according to quantity, size, and type of objects to be plated.
* Verifies types of plating metals and solutions, length of immersion period, and amount of electric current flowing through solutions, following plating specifications.
* Assigns tasks to workers and processes paperwork, such as timecards and supply, production and personnel reports.
* Resolves personnel problems and expedites production bottlenecks to meet deadlines and production schedules.
* Inspects plated surfaces of objects to detect defects, such as rough spots, thin plating, and unpolished areas.
* Collects and labels samples of plating solutions for laboratory analysis.
* Examines equipment, such as plating tanks, polishers, and racks, and notifies maintenance department of needed repairs.
* May analyze plating solutions to verify conformance to specifications, performing variety of tests, such as specific gravity and titration tests.
* May measure thickness of plating on metal objects, using micrometer, to verify conformance to specifications.
* May be designated according to specific process supervised as Supervisor, Anodizing (electroplating); Supervisor, Electrolytic Tinning (nonfer.
* metal).
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cleaning, racking, plating, and polishing of metal or plastic objects. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects equipment, such as hooks, plating barrels or tanks, and racks, according to quantity, size, and type of objects to be plated.
* Verifies types of plating metals and solutions, length of immersion period, and amount of electric current flowing through solutions, following plating specifications.
* Assigns tasks to workers and processes paperwork, such as timecards and supply, production and personnel reports.
* Resolves personnel problems and expedites production bottlenecks to meet deadlines and production schedules.
* Inspects plated surfaces of objects to detect defects, such as rough spots, thin plating, and unpolished areas.
* Collects and labels samples of plating solutions for laboratory analysis.
* Examines equipment, such as plating tanks, polishers, and racks, and notifies maintenance department of needed repairs.
* May analyze plating solutions to verify conformance to specifications, performing variety of tests, such as specific gravity and titration tests.
* May measure thickness of plating on metal objects, using micrometer, to verify conformance to specifications.
* May be designated according to specific process supervised as Supervisor, Anodizing (electroplating); Supervisor, Electrolytic Tinning (nonfer.
* metal).
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in making copper starting sheets by electrolysis.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in electroplating, stripping, finishing, and inspecting metal phonograph record matrices.
* Requisitions processing materials, such as chemicals, wiping cloths, and polishing compounds.
* Confers with workers' representatives to resolve grievances.
* Trains workers in processing functions.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects plated surfaces of metal or plastic objects visually or using chemical or electrical tests. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines part for defects, such as uneven coating or scratches.
* Applies chemicals to or immerses object in test solution and observes reaction or measures dissolving time.
* Turns on electrical current and reads gauge to measure plating thickness.
* Attaches magnet to metal part and reads gauge to measure magnet pull to determine plating thickness.
* Compares readings with specifications and returns defective objects for rework.
* May test samples of electrolytic solutions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates continuous multistrand electrogalvanizing and heat-treating machine to coat steel strip or wire with zinc, according to written specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Mixes chemical solutions, using formulas.
* Fills cleaning, pickling, galvanizing, and waxing tanks.
* Charges furnace with gas or coal to prepare for galvanizing process.
* Inserts wire reels and feeds wire into machine.
* Moves controls on rheostats and generators to regulate movement of wire strand between reels, plating tanks, and coils, to obtain specified thickness of coating.
* Adjusts controls to regulate temperature of leadpot, cleaners, picklers, and plating tanks.
* Performs chemical solution tests, such as titration tests, wire hardness tests, dip coating tests, and welding tests, to determine conformance to specifications.
* Readjusts controls based on findings.
* Records test results.
* Examines coating, washing, and alignment of wire strands visually and using micrometers to compare finished strands with specifications.
* Resets and changes combs when changing width and number of strands.
* Replaces anodes and recharges leadpot at specified intervals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates barrel plating equipment to coat metal objects electrolytically with metal to build up, protect, or decorate surfaces. Respnsibilities include:
* Places metal objects in mesh container and immerses objects in cleaning solutions.
* Places objects in perforated or mesh barrel of plating equipment and clamps door in barrel opening.
* Turns handle to lower barrel into plating solution and to close electrical contacts.
* Starts rotation of barrel.
* Starts flow of electric current through plating solution that decomposes plating metal at anode and deposits metal coating on objects in barrel.
* Stops flow of current after specified time and removes objects.
* Places objects in mesh container and immerses objects in rinsing solutions.
* Dries plated objects, using centrifugal drier or tumbler filled with sawdust.
* Tests solutions, using hydrometer, and adds chemicals to maintain specified concentrations.
Industry:Professional careers
