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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who mounts roll of asphalt-impregnated felt paper on machine that paints paper to make floor covering. Respnsibilities include: * Observes paint level in pans to ensure that prescribed amount is pumped into pans to cover rolls. * Examines impregnated felt paper to detect tears. * Notifies coating-machine operator of discrepancies. * Removes painted floor covering from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mounts roll of asphalt-impregnated felt paper on machine that paints paper to make floor covering. Respnsibilities include: * Observes paint level in pans to ensure that prescribed amount is pumped into pans to cover rolls. * Examines impregnated felt paper to detect tears. * Notifies coating-machine operator of discrepancies. * Removes painted floor covering from machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who guides material used in production of hard-surface floor covering, through rollers to and from processing equipment. Respnsibilities include: * Pushes end of material into rollers that convey material through saturation, coating, consolidation, or curing processes. * Observes material in passage to detect unevenness or misalignment with marginal markings on roller guides. * Pulls material into line manually or turns wheel of mechanical guiding device to straighten material. * May be designated according to phase of operation or type of material being processed as carrier guider; stoves dip guider; mold goods roll guider; side guider.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who casts plastic joints for sewer pipe in joint mold. Respnsibilities include: * Removes dirt, dust, or grease from pipe, using airhose, rags, and solvent. * Examines pipe for straightness, chips, or cracks. * Brushes adhesive on end of pipe. * Loads pipe on conveyor, using air hoist. * Positions joint mold on pipe. * Lifts container and pours plastic materials into mold. * Places pipe on conveyor leading to curing oven. * Removes cured pipe from conveyor at discharge end of oven. * Trims excess plastic from joint, using knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who loads felt-base floor coverings onto racks of oven for drying. * Strings pull-in cable and clamp through drying oven rack. * Fastens clamp to end of floor covering emerging from printing machine, and pulls floor covering onto oven rack. * Removes clamp and pull-in cable upon filling of loading rack.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts specified lengths of floor covering from spindle of rolling machine, using knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of tumbler operators engaged in removing scale, burrs, or grease from gun or cartridge parts. * Mixes acid solutions in tank according to formula. * May experiment with new formulas for abrasives and cleansing materials to be used in tumbling barrels. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of tumbler operators engaged in removing scale, burrs, or grease from gun or cartridge parts. * Mixes acid solutions in tank according to formula. * May experiment with new formulas for abrasives and cleansing materials to be used in tumbling barrels. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in drying, cleaning, sorting, treating, and packaging seeds in seed processing plant. Respnsibilities include: * Observes and feels incoming seed shipments to determine cleaning and drying requirements, utilizing knowledge of seed characteristics and processing standards. * Instructs and monitors workers in use of equipment that sifts debris from seeds, removes moisture from seeds, scrapes off outer layers of seed cover, and sorts seeds according to weight and size. * Oversees treatment of seeds with specified chemicals to fill customer orders. * Assists and directs workers in loading, unloading, and conveying seeds in warehouse and processing area, using forklift, and in boxing seeds for storage or shipment. * Performs routine equipment maintenance, such as lubrication and replacement of parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates painting and drying units along conveyor line to coat metal, plastic, ceramic, and wood products with lacquer, paint, varnish, enamel, oil, or rustproofing material. Respnsibilities include: * Places or racks workpieces on conveyor. * Turns valve to regulate water shield spray. * Starts pumps to mix chemicals and paints, to fill tanks, and to control viscosity, adding prescribed amounts or proportions of paints, thinner, and chemicals to mixture. * Screws specified nozzles into spray guns and positions nozzles to direct spray onto workpiece. * Lights ovens, turns knobs, and observes gauges on control panel to set specified temperature and air circulation in oven, to synchronize speed of conveyor with action of spray guns and ovens, and to regulate air pressure in spray guns that atomize spray. * Determines flow and viscosity of paints and quality of coating visually or by use of viscometer. * May spray coated product with salt solution for prescribed time to determine resistance to corrosion. * May be designated according to coating applied as bonderite operator; flow coat control operator or according to article coated as gunstock-spray-unit adjuster.
Industry:Professional careers