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A professional who sets up and adjusts machines that roll grooves or knurls into shotgun shell caps preparatory to joining cap to shell body.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to connect metal couplings to pipes. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets tightening mechanism on machine to correspond to specified numbers of turns.
* Puts coupling into machine.
* Starts machine that connects and tightens coupling to pipe.
* Stops machine and ejects pipe.
* May tighten couplings manually when machine malfunctions.
* May keep production records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of crew aboard tugboat. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects towing gear and lifesaving equipment, and orders crew to repair or replace defective equipment.
* Directs activities of crew engaged in rigging towlines to barges or ship to be towed.
* Supervises crew engaged in cleaning and painting of boat.
* Stands watch during specified periods, and determines geographical position of boat upon request of tugboat captain, using loran and azimuths of celestial bodies.
* Steers tugboat, upon request of tugboat captain, to push or pull barges to destination and to berth and unberth ships, avoiding reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards to navigation, utilizing navigation devices, such as compass and sextant, and aids to navigation, such as lighthouses and buoys.
* Assumes command of tugboat in event tugboat captain becomes incapacitated.
* Is required to hold license issued by U.S.
* Coast Guard.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to assist metal fabricator in fabricating and assembling boilers and steel plate vessels, such as tanks and vats. Respnsibilities include:
* Tends machines, such as drill press, punch press, and boring mill to drill, punch, and ream metal stock for boiler parts.
* Tends power shears to cut plate to size and shape.
* Grinds welded joints, seams, and other irregular areas to smooth boiler surfaces, using portable and pedestal grinders.
* Wraps blanket of spun glass around shell to insulate boiler and tacks blanket to shell surface, using stud welding gun.
* Operates sandblasting machine to clean tank surfaces prior to painting or coating.
* Moves and positions materials at work site with help of other workers, using overhead bridge crane or dolly.
* Removes casing, grates, and grate rigging from boiler prior to repair of boiler and reassembles them after repair, using handtools.
* Performs other duties described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs acetylene gas welding equipment, using handtools and metalworking machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Disassembles parts, such as worn hose, torch tips, torch valves, pressure gauges and regulators.
* Examines parts and repairs usable ones, using hand files and metalworking machines, such as lathes, drill presses, and grinding wheels.
* Replaces defective parts with new or rebuilt ones, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops plans for surface transportation projects according to established engineering standards and state or federal construction policy. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares plans, estimates, and specifications to design transportation facilities.
* Plans alterations and modifications of existing streets, highways, and freeways to improve traffic flow.
* Prepares deeds, property descriptions, and right-of-way maps.
* Performs field engineering calculations to compensate for change orders and contract estimates.
* May prepare and present public reports of environmental analysis statements and other transportation information.
* May specialize in particular phase of work, such as making surveys, improving signs or lighting, preparing plans, or directing and coordinating construction or maintenance activities.
* May be designated Highway Engineer.
* May specialize in studying vehicular and pedestrian traffic conditions and be designated Traffic Engineer.
* May plan, organize, and direct work in transportation studies to plan surface systems and be designated Transportation Planning Engineer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts battery of foot-powered presses that shape and assemble metal buckles, buttons, and parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Obtains specified die and punch from rack according to size and shape of product.
* Installs die and punch in machine and adjusts stroke of press ram, using wrenches.
* Test-operates machine, and examines test-run product for defects, such as malformation, misalignment, dents, burrs, and scratches.
* Measures product to verify dimensions, using micrometer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates computer and peripheral equipment to process business, scientific, engineering, or other data, according to operating instructions. Responsibilities include:
* Enters commands, using keyboard of computer terminal, and presses buttons and flips switches on computer and peripheral equipment, such as tape drive, printer, data communications equipment, and plotter, to integrate and operate equipment, following operating instructions and schedule.
* Loads peripheral equipment with selected materials, such as tapes and printer paper for operating runs, or oversees loading of peripheral equipment by peripheral equipment operators.
* Enters commands to clear computer system and start operation, using keyboard of computer terminal.
* Observes peripheral equipment and error messages displayed on monitor of terminal to detect faulty output or machine stoppage.
* Enters commands to correct error or stoppage and resume operations.
* Notifies supervisor of errors or equipment stoppage.
* Clears equipment at end of operating run and reviews schedule to determine next assignment.
* Records problems which occurred, such as down time, and actions taken.
* May answer telephone calls to assist computer users encountering problem.
* May assist workers in classifying, cataloging, and maintaining tapes (tape librarian ).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists other workers engaged in servicing, repairing, and overhauling aircraft and aircraft engines, performing any combination of following duties. Respnsibilities include:
* Replaces batteries, filters, and similar accessories, using mechanic's handtools.
* Removes inspection plates, cowling, engine covers, floor boards, and related items, to permit access for repair or inspection, and replaces items upon completion of work.
* Assists airframe-and-power-plant mechanic in dismantling, repairing, overhauling, or replacing parts and assemblies, such as engines, plumbing and hydraulic systems, and aircraft structural sections.
* Cleans aircraft interior and exterior parts and assemblies with solvents or other cleaning solutions.
* Inflates tires, fills gasoline tanks and oil reservoirs, and greases aircraft, using grease gun.
* May assist manufacturing facility flight line personnel in servicing and repairing aircraft prior to flight or customer acceptance and be designated Flight Line Service Attendant.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends power shear that cuts metal objects, such as sheets, plates, billets or bars, to specified length. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts workpiece manually, or by hoist or crane, to machine bed or roller table.
* Positions workpiece against side guides and end stops or aligns layout lines under shear blade.
* Starts machine that clamps workpiece and lowers blade to cut metal.
* May tend shear on production line where shear is fed by conveyor, such as automobile frame line or rolling mill.
* May position stops according to calibrated gauge on machine to shear to length such items as scrap, billets, or reinforcing rods.
* May verify size of sheared items, using tape measurer, caliper, or template.
* May shear metal to specified circular or curved dimensions.
* May be designated by type of shear as alligator-shear operator; gate-shear operator i; or by application of shear as hot-billet-shear operator; scrap-shear operator; square-shear operator ii.
Industry:Professional careers
