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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in spooling and stranding wire rope, and swaging fittings onto rope slings. Responsibilities include:
* Sets up spooling, stranding, closing, and swaging machines.
* Trains workers in operation of machines.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to activity of workers supervised as closing supervisor; inspection supervisor; splicing supervisor; spooling supervisor; stranding supervisor; swaging-and-plastic supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and tests coated or uncoated wire for such properties as electrical resistance, hardness, size, cross sectional shape, and tensile strength, to verify their conformance to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Reads written specifications, or receives oral instructions and determines work aids required and inspection procedures.
* Tests wire for electrical resistance, elongation, and tensile strength, by inserting wire in various testing devices and noting instrument readings.
* Measures wire for size, using micrometers and fixed gauges.
* Examines wire for defects, such as pits, scratches, and burnt surfaces.
* Records test results and informs supervisor when wire varies from specifications.
* May test wire for defective insulation and resistance to high temperature, using electrical testing equipment and electric heating furnaces.
* May be designated according to product inspected as wire rope inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and tests coated or uncoated wire for such properties as electrical resistance, hardness, size, cross sectional shape, and tensile strength, to verify their conformance to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Reads written specifications, or receives oral instructions and determines work aids required and inspection procedures.
* Tests wire for electrical resistance, elongation, and tensile strength, by inserting wire in various testing devices and noting instrument readings.
* Measures wire for size, using micrometers and fixed gauges.
* Examines wire for defects, such as pits, scratches, and burnt surfaces.
* Records test results and informs supervisor when wire varies from specifications.
* May test wire for defective insulation and resistance to high temperature, using electrical testing equipment and electric heating furnaces.
* May be designated according to product inspected as wire rope inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates extrusion press to encase electric wire and cable in lead sheath. Responsibilities include:
* Bolts die in head of press, fills melting pot with lead, and mounts reel of cable on machine spindle.
* Threads cable through die and cooling chamber, fastens end to takeup reel, and starts machine.
* Adjusts controls to regulate speed of cable through machine, temperature and flow of metal, pressure of hydraulic ram, and pressure of water spray in cooling chamber to ensure uniform sheathing of lead on cable.
* Measures thickness and diameter of sheath with micrometers and calipers to verify conformity to size and surface specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and tests insulated wire and cable for conformance to specifications, using testing instruments, inspection manuals, and blueprints. Responsibilities include:
* Measures diameter, wall thickness, concentricity of insulation, and thickness of wire or cable, using microscope, pin gauges, and micrometer.
* Attaches weights to cable to test adhesion of insulation to cable.
* Connects sample to electrical outlet and tests effectiveness of insulation under varying voltages, using such instruments as ohmmeter, wheatstone bridge, and galvanometer.
* Tests wearability of insulation, using twisting device.
* Tests breaking strength of wire and cable, using tensile testing machine.
* Examines and feels surface of braided metal shield surrounding insulation to detect imperfections, and cuts off or interlaces protruding metal strands of shield.
* Cuts insulation with knife and compares composition of insulation with specifications.
* Stamps mark of approval or rejection on cable tested.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who forces electric cable through rubber jacket (tubing) to insulate cable, using compressed air. Responsibilities include:
* Unrolls tubing from reel on truck.
* Ties leader (cord) to wooden plug of specified dimensions and inserts plug into one end of tubing.
* Clamps tubing onto compressed-air line and opens valve allowing air to force plug and leader through tubing.
* Fastens leader to cable end and clamps tubing onto compressed-air line.
* Scoops powdered talc into hopper connected to air line.
* Signals worker stationed at opposite end of tubing to pull cable.
* Turns valve, allowing air to expand tubing and force talc into tubing, as cable is pulled through tubing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to card asbestos fibers, wrap fibers around electric wire, and impregnate fibers with wax. Responsibilities include:
* Loads reels of wire onto machine spindle, threads wire between guides, through taping, carding, impregnating, and cooling units, and fastens wire to takeup reel.
* Places roll of tape on spindle and inserts end in taping device that folds tape around wire.
* Places lap ii of asbestos on carding device that shreds asbestos and cards fibers onto wire in continuous layer.
* Starts machine.
* Readjusts controls and replenishes supply of tape and asbestos to ensure uniform coverage of wire.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates battery of automatic braiding machines that cover electric wire and cable with insulating material, such as cotton yarn, rubber tape, fiberglass, or fine steel, copper, and aluminum strands. Responsibilities include:
* Places bobbins of insulating material on machine spindles and threads strands through braiding head according to pattern draft which specifies lay and sequence of braiding.
* Locks spool of wire to be insulated in payoff spindle; threads wire through machine guides, footage counter, and braiding head; and turns setscrews to control tension of wire.
* Adjusts traverse attachment to ensure even winding of wire.
* Starts machine and winds braided wire around capstan and onto takeoff spool.
* Replaces empty bobbins and ties broken threads.
* May repair thread breaks, using brush and glue.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to wind insulating material, such as tape, yarn, and cloth around electric wire and cable. Responsibilities include:
* Loads reel of wire onto machine spindle and threads wire between metal and felt cleaning strips, through tank of liquid adhesive, and through taping mechanism.
* Fastens wire to takeup reel.
* Winds end of insulating material around wire and starts machine.
* Observes automatic wrapping of material around wire to detect broken or loose wrapping or uneven winding of wire on reel.
* Stops machine to repair breaks, adjust guides, and replenish supply of insulating material and liquid adhesive.
* Forms continuous wire by clamping ends of wire to be joined in electrodes of electric brazing torch, turning on current, and holding filler rod to heated wire ends.
* Measures wire with micrometer to determine that insulation meets specifications.
* Wraps paper around full wire reels, attaches identification tag, and lifts reel from machine.
* May operate machine, equipped with winding device, to wrap protective metal strip over insulation.
* May thread insulated wire through melted paraffin and polishing wipers to make insulation waterproof.
* May be designated according to insulating material applied as paper-wrapping-machine operator; varnish-cambric-covering-machine operator; or type of machine operated as double-lay-winder-and-paraffin-unit operator; tandem-taping-and-paper-wrapping-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic winding machines that wind protective shield of yarn, wire or metal strip into flexible conduit or over insulated wire, such as submarine and underground cable. Responsibilities include:
* Starts winding machine and feeds insulated wire into machine and threads protective wire or strip through guides of automatic winding machine.
* Observes angle of spiral and adjusts guides, using wrench and screwdriver.
Industry:Professional careers
