- Industri: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in repairing, maintaining, and programming automated and manual welding machines and equipment in industrial establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with engineering, quality control, and supervisory personnel and maintenance superintendent to analyze and resolve scheduling, production, and quality control problems.
* Trains and assists workers in trouble-shooting, maintenance, and repair of robots and automated and manual welding equipment.
* Directs workers engaged in programming welding robots, programmable controllers, and other automated equipment.
* Maintains parts inventory.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who aids residents of public and private housing projects and apartments in relocation and provides information concerning regulations, facilities, and services. Responsibilities include:
* Explains rules established by owner or management, such as sanitation and maintenance requirements, and parking regulations.
* Demonstrates use and care of equipment for tenant use.
* Informs tenants of facilities, such as laundries and playgrounds.
* Advises homemakers needing assistance in child care, food, money management, and housekeeping problems.
* Provides information on location and nature of available community services, such as clinics and recreation centers.
* Keeps records and prepares reports for owner or management.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically coils compression, extension, and torsion springs from round and flat wire, following verbal instructions. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines wire stock with micrometer to ensure conformance to specifications.
* Threads end of stock through feed rollers, around arbor, and under cutting tool.
* Starts machine that automatically winds, cuts, and ejects springs.
* Measures springs for conformance to specifications, using micrometers and gauges.
* Verifies action of springs under pressure by compressing springs under specified load in spring testing machine.
* Notifies machine setter when machine malfunctions.
* May sharpen cut-off tool and remove coiling marks from coiling point and pitch tool, using bench grinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies accuracy and completeness of topographical maps from aerial photographs and specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Views photographs and other reference materials, such as old maps and records and examines corresponding area of map to verify correct identification of specified topographical features and accuracy of contour lines.
* Verifies correct location and accuracy of scaled distances between control points and reference lines.
* Examines reference materials to detect omission of topographical features, poor register, or other defects in photography or draftsmanship.
* Marks errors and makes corrections, such as numbering grid lines or lettering names of rivers or towns.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends coiler that winds metal strips, sheets, or wire into coils as they emerge from rolling mills, slitters, or other machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Adjusts coiler guides and rollers according to size of workpiece, using handtools.
* Starts machine which automatically winds metal onto reels and observes operation to prevent jams, uneven winding, or wrinkles.
* Regulates tension of coiler to prevent tearing or stretching of metal.
* Inspects surface of metal for stains, dirt, scratches, and other defects.
* Binds finished coils to prevent uncoiling.
* May move controls to activate hydraulic pusher arm and tilt table to transfer coil onto skid or conveyor.
* May be designated by employer according to experience with particular type of machine, or product coiled.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates airplane equipped with special radio, radar, and other electronic equipment to conduct in-flight testing of air navigational aids, air traffic controls, and communications equipment, and to evaluate sites of proposed equipment installation. Responsibilities include:
* Plans flight activities in accordance with test schedule.
* Plots flight pattern and files flight plan.
* Informs crewmembers of flight and test procedures.
* Coordinates flight activities with ground-support crews and air-traffic control.
* Operates aircraft over designated area at specified altitudes in all types of weather to determine receptivity and other characteristics of airport-control signal and navigation and communications equipment and systems, such as racon, tacan, scater, and atis.
* Prepares evaluation reports of each flight.
* Conducts periodic preflight checks of aircraft to ensure proper maintenance and safe operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts machines, such as grid formers or spade-winding machines, used to fabricate parts for electron tubes. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads work order or receives verbal instructions regarding machine setup.
* Installs specified parts, such as gears, cams, ratchets, cutters, and guides in machine.
* Sets control mechanisms that regulate functions, such as feed rate, spindle speed, air pressure, and wire tension.
* Loads, positions, and aligns wire or other fabrication material on feed mechanisms.
* Starts machine and observes operation to detect malfunction.
* Examines and measures sample part, using magnifying device and measuring instruments, such as balance scale, ruler, and micrometer, to ensure part meets specifications or to determine cause of defect.
* May maintain and repair machinery.
* May sharpen tools, using grinder or polishing equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls operation of machinery and equipment, such as coil car, uncoiler, rollers, power shears, and hoist, using console, from pulpit in welding mill to form skelp (metal coil) into metal pipe. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives signal through intercom to begin machine operation.
* Moves levers and presses buttons on control console to position coil car under overhead hoist and receive supply of skelp.
* Observes operation of car that transports skelp through series of processing operations, such as uncoiling skelp, rolling coil into sheets, and shearing sheets into specified size prior to welding and forming metal into pipe.
* Observes operation from pulpit to detect camber (curves in skelp sheet) and machine malfunctions, such as jam-ups.
* Stops machinery when malfunctions occur and removes sections of cobble (damaged or defective skelp), using acetylene torch.
* Assists workers in setting up and adjusting machines and equipment, using handtools and measuring instruments.
* Signals overhead crane operator to restock or remove skelp and cobble from operating pit.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates spinning lathe equipped with hydraulically controlled forming tools to spin (form) shaped articles from sheet or plate metal, compiling specifications from blueprints and knowledge of physical properties of metal. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts specified spinning chuck to machine spindle, manually or with power hoist, and bolts chuck in place, using handtools or power tools.
* Clamps metal disk to spinning chuck.
* Starts machine and coats rotating disk with spinning compound.
* Turns valve to set pressure applied to disk according to type of metal, shape of spinning chuck, speed of lathe, and thickness of metal disk.
* Moves feed pump levers that hydraulically control pressure applied by forming tool, reads pressure gauges to determine amount of pressure applied, and guides tool against disk to form disk over and into shape of spinning chuck.
* Resets position of forming tool on steady rest to form disk into shape.
* Replaces forming tool with cutting tool to trim excess metal from shaped part.
* Verifies dimension of finished article with verniers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of one or more departments, such as engineering, operations, or sales, or major division of business organization, and aids chief administrative officer in formulating and administering organization policies. Responsibilities include:
* Participates in formulating and administering company policies and developing long range goals and objectives.
* Directs and coordinates activities of department or division for which responsibility is delegated to further attainment of goals and objectives.
* Reviews analyses of activities, costs, operations, and forecast data to determine department or division progress toward stated goals and objectives.
* Confers with chief administrative officer and other administrative personnel to review achievements and discuss required changes in goals or objectives resulting from current status and conditions.
* May perform duties of president during absence.
* May serve as member of management committees on special studies.
Industry:Professional careers
