- Industri: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who repairs and maintains electric golf carts at golf course or in automotive repair shop, using handtools and electrical testing devices. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines type of repairs required by reading work orders, talking to cart operator, or test-driving cart.
* Tests operational performance of motor, using voltmeter, ammeter, and wattmeter.
* Dismantles motor and repairs or replaces defective parts, such as brushes, armatures, and commutator, using wrenches, pliers, and screwdrivers.
* Rewires electrical systems, and repairs or replaces electrical accessories, such as horn and headlights.
* Tests and recharges or replaces batteries.
* Lubricates moving parts and adjusts brakes and belts.
* May perform structural repairs to body of cart, seats, and fabric tops.
* May record parts used and labor time on work order.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in setting up and operating hydraulic-pressure-auto-frettage machines to cold-work interior of artillery barrels.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who renovates used cars for resale at used car lot. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects cars for noticeable defects, such as dents, scratches, torn upholstery, and poor mechanical operation.
* Hammers out dents.
* Polishes scratches and retouches with enamel.
* Sews rips and tears in upholstery.
* Cleans and vacuums interiors.
* Washes and polishes exteriors.
* Replaces missing or defective small parts.
* Performs minor mechanical repairs and adjustments.
* May inspect cars for compliance with state safety regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates grinding, mixing, and sifting machines to test operational conformance to customer specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects grinding head and attaches part to grinder.
* Places material to be ground in hopper, sets speed, starts motor, and examines ground material.
* Adjusts or replaces grinding heads to obtain specified results.
* Connects liquid inlet hose to mixer, places material in hopper, and starts mixer.
* Adjusts paddle deflection, flow controls, and speed as necessary.
* Measures amount of electrical power used, using ampmeter.
* Writes report of operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine that automatically twists sharp barbs between strands of wire to form barbed-wire fencing materials. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts reels of smooth wire on feedrack of machine, using hoist.
* Butt-welds end of feed wire to wire in machines, and to repair breaks in wire.
* Starts machine and observes counter on machine to verify required length of barbed wire on roll.
* Stops machine and removes pin to drop roll of barbed wire to floor.
* Cuts wire with cutter.
* Attaches name tag to roll and places it on pallet.
* Adjusts machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and adjusts mixing and packing machines used in production of nitroglycerin and dynamite. Respnsibilities include:
* Washes machines and parts with sodium carbonate or other neutralizing compound prior to and during dismantling to minimize danger of explosion, using brush and rags.
* Determines cause of equipment malfunction, according to knowledge of machine operation and report of operator or maintenance workers.
* Dismantles, repairs, and replaces machine parts, using nonsparking handtools.
* Observes safety regulations while working in explosive areas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates battery of hopper-fed machines to automatically groove or knurl, die-size, and lubricate bullets for small arms ammunition. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts grooving segments, lubricating and sizing die, feedpipes, and feeding mechanism, using handtools.
* Turns crank to withdraw plunger from cylinder and inserts wax stick lubricant which is force fed to lubricating die.
* Adjusts rheostat to heat and soften wax electrically in die box.
* Fills hopper with bullets and starts machine.
* Measures work samples to verify location and depth of grooves, and length and diameter of bullets, according to specifications, using fixed gauges.
* Inspects bullets to ensure that grooves are filled with lubricant.
* Turns stop nuts and setscrews to adjust machine by trial and error to produce acceptable bullets.
* Observes grooving and feeding mechanisms for jams.
* Removes jammed bullets, using fingers or wire pick.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans, disassembles, and reassembles flyers. Respnsibilities include:
* Collects damaged, dirty, or rusted flyers from boxes near machines and carries them to worktable.
* Dumps flyers into tumbler containing cork to clean dirt and rust from them, or uses brush moistened with oil.
* Removes wire arm from flyer with wrench or places hub under press and depresses pedal to open clamps.
* Inserts new wires into hub and tightens them, using wrench or press.
* Drops repaired flyer into chute press or into box.
* May bend wire arms by positioning flyer under press and depressing pedal.
* May record number and type of flyers repaired.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages business affairs of labor union. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates and directs such union functions as promoting local membership, placing union members on jobs, arranging local meetings, and maintaining relations between union and employers and press representatives.
* Visits work sites to ensure management and labor employees adhere to union contract specifications.
* May assist in developing plant production and safety and health measures.
* May negotiate with management on hours, wages, individual grievances, and other work-related matters affecting employees.
Industry:Professional careers
