- Industri: Government; Labor
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A professional who installs and repairs gasoline and diesel engines in boats, such as yachts, tugs, and trawlers, following specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions engine over mounting holes, using chain hoist.
* Bolts engine to mount and straps fuel tank to cradle, using handtools.
* Connects fuel, oil, and waterlines to engine.
* Installs engine controls, propeller shaft, and propeller.
* Attaches test instruments, such as tachometer and voltmeter to engine.
* Starts engine and records operating data, such as revolutions per minute, and voltage output.
* Disassembles defective engines and repairs or replaces damaged parts, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, adjusts, and repairs cleaning, grinding, sifting, packaging, sewing, and tying machines and elevator, conveyor, and scale equipment in grain and feed mill. Respnsibilities include:
* Replaces broken and worn parts, such as gears, bushings, bolts, and needles, using mechanic's handtools.
* Relines bearings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dumps color mix into hoppers of designated color-depositing machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Scoops mix from bins and dumps it into hopper.
* Adds specified ingredients as directed.
* Breaks up lumpy color in feedlines, using long-handled stick.
* Cleans roller blades, using scraper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who copies information such as name and address of customer, meter size and type, servicing and inspection dates, and results of installation or disconnection to maintain records of electric, gas, or steam meters. Supplies meter repair and maintenance workers with information from files as requested. May record date of receipt and completion of meter service orders to keep control register of work orders. May match permits with work orders and verify completeness of orders to show required measurements and sketch of meter location. May assist with periodic physical inventory of meters in meter shop. May make periodic reports of meters set, removed, or changed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates equipment to test various types of triple air valves for conformance to federal and company safety standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts valve on test frame and connects air supply hoses to valve, using portable power wrench.
* Moves test panel control levers singly or in combination to open or block air passages into different chambers of valve.
* Turns lever to inject air into unblocked chambers, reads gauges to determine specified pressure differentials, and to detect leaks, weak springs, and poor fits.
* Applies soapy water to valve with brush to pinpoint air leaks.
* Replaces defective parts.
* Rejects valves that do not meet specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains traveling cleaners that blow dust and lint from production machinery and work area. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines motor and attachments of cleaner to determine repairs needed.
* Replaces worn parts, such as blower sleeves.
* Removes motors requiring major repair and replaces them with new or rebuilt motors, using handtools.
* Regulates speed of cleaning unit to ensure effective cleaning.
* Oils and greases parts of cleaner.
* Cleans motor, blower, sleeves, and monorail, using rags, brushes, and airhose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in inspecting, servicing, and repairing railway locomotives such as diesel-electric locomotives and gasoline-powered speeders.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to bend metal structural shapes, such as bars, rods, angles, pipes, and tubes, to angle or contour specified by work order, drawings, templates, or layout. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects and bolts holding clamp, die block, and guide clamp to machine.
* Positions and clamps end stops on machine to set specified location of bend.
* Inserts or screws plug stops into guide wheel to set specified degree of bend.
* Positions workpiece against end stop.
* Locks holding clamp and guide clamp onto workpiece.
* Lubricates workpiece with oil.
* Starts turntable that draws workpiece through guide clamp around die block until stopped by plug stops or until dial indicator points to specified degree of bend.
* May slide mandrel into tubing instead of using guide clamp.
* May preheat workpiece, using hand torch or heating furnace.
* May use hand-powered bending machine for short runs.
* May fill tubes or pipe with sand, resin, or lead to prevent wrinkling or collapsing during bending operation.
* May heat tube, using torch, and manually bend tube or pipe around forming blocks.
* May flare tube ends, using tube flarer and cut or trim metal stock to length, using power shears or saws.
* May be designated according to type of stock bent as pipe-bending-machine operator; rod-bending-machine operator i; tube-bending-machine operator i.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that presses metal bands into grooved edges of tabletops. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions tabletop in center of rotary bed of machine.
* Pushes lever to lower ram that holds tabletop in place.
* Inserts lip of metal band into grooved edge of tabletop.
* Starts rotation of machine bed and starts rollers that press band into grooved edges around three sides of tabletop.
* Lifts tabletop from machine bed and places tabletop in vise.
* Inserts lip of separate metal band into grooved edge of unbanded side and hammers band into place, using rubber mallet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates rolling mill to reduce dimensions of cold strip metal preparatory to processing metal into springs. Respnsibilities include:
* Clamps roll of strip metal on reel stand and threads end of strip through series of machine guides and pressure rolls.
* Turns screws to adjust pressure of rollers or presses buttons to regulate reduction of strip to specified gauge.
* Starts machine, and moves lever to control rate of feed and tension of strip through mill.
* Stops machine and measures thickness of strip, using micrometer or by observing automatic gauge indicator.
* Resets roll pressure to reduce strip to specified thickness.
* May reshape and reduce steel wire.
Industry:Professional careers
