- Industri: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who installs and adjusts rolls, passes, and guides on stands of rolling mill, according to job specifications, using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines installation procedure from rolling specifications, product dimensions, and section of mill to be used for rolling product.
* Assembles roll stands, using hammers, wedges, wrenches, and pry bars.
* Installs and adjusts guides on stands to control passage of product through roll passes, using handtools.
* Disassembles previously installed roll stands on mill and installs and aligns new roll stands, using blocks and wedges.
* Sorts and stores rollers and guides from disassembled stands.
* Observes guides during rolling to determine if they are functioning according to specifications and adjusts guides to obtain specified performance.
* May assist other workers in disassembling and removing stands from rolling line.
* May sort and store rolls, guides, and guards removed from rolling line.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies weight and identifying data stenciled on hogsheads of tobacco and records data in prize books (ledgers). Responsibilities include:
* Removes ticket from hogshead and verifies computations of net weight to determine whether figures recorded by weigher, production are correct.
* Listens as bull-gang worker calls out hogshead number and grade stenciled on hogshead and compares data with that recorded on hogshead ticket.
* Instructs stenciler to correct markings.
* Records hogshead number, tobacco grade, and weight in appropriate prize book.
* Computes total weight for each page of prize book, using adding machine, and records totals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up machine to form longitudinal bends, beads, rolls, or embossed designs into sheet metal strips by drawing strips through one or more sets of roller dies to fabricate such items as molding trim, or weatherstrip. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts specified dies onto spindles.
* Positions spindles to align male and female dies and adjust dies and drive rolls to thickness of metal strip.
* May turn knobs or install gears to set speed of machine and synchronize action of cutting die or shear blade with action of machine to cut stack to specified length.
* Directs flow of coolant onto workpiece or fills oilcups.
* Turns machine over to roll-forming-machine operator II.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates roughing and finishing roll train to reduce steel slabs to strips and sheets, using knowledge of rolling practices and steel properties. Respnsibilities include:
* Calculates draft for each roll stand and plans rolling sequence from rolling schedule.
* Installs and adjusts equipment, such as rolls, guides, scale breakers, shears, and coilers, in mill train, using handtools.
* Observes steel passing through finish rolls for specified straightness, flatness, and finish.
* Observes gauges to verify specified electric load and temperature.
* Moves controls to adjust electric load, speed of mill, and tension between rollers to equalize mill load and obtain product of specified finish and dimensions.
* Inspects product for defects, using x-ray gauge.
* Directs crew in roll changes, removal of cobbles from rolling line, and polishing rolls.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and overhauls automobiles, buses, trucks, and other automotive vehicles. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines vehicle and discusses with customer or automobile-repair-service estimator; automobile tester; or bus inspector nature and extent of damage or malfunction.
* Plans work procedure, using charts, technical manuals, and experience.
* Raises vehicle, using hydraulic jack or hoist, to gain access to mechanical units bolted to underside of vehicle.
* Removes unit, such as engine, transmission, or differential, using wrenches and hoist.
* Disassembles unit and inspects parts for wear, using micrometers, calipers, and thickness gauges.
* Repairs or replaces parts, such as pistons, rods, gears, valves, and bearings, using mechanic's handtools.
* Overhauls or replaces carburetors, blowers, generators, distributors, starters, and pumps.
* Rebuilds parts, such as crankshafts and cylinder blocks, using lathes, shapers, drill presses, and welding equipment.
* Rewires ignition system, lights, and instrument panel.
* Relines and adjusts brakes, aligns front end, repairs or replaces shock absorbers, and solders leaks in radiator.
* Mends damaged body and fenders by hammering out or filling in dents and welding broken parts.
* Replaces and adjusts headlights, and installs and repairs accessories, such as radios, heaters, mirrors, and windshield wipers.
* May be designated according to specialty as automobile mechanic, motor; bus mechanic; differential repairer; engine-repair mechanic, bus; foreign-car mechanic; truck mechanic.
* May be designated: compressor mechanic, bus; drive-shaft-and-steering-post repairer; engine-head repairer; motor assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs fractional-horsepower gasoline engines used to power lawnmowers, garden tractors, and similar machines, using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Locates causes of trouble, dismantles engines, using handtools, and examines parts for defects.
* Replaces or repairs parts, such as rings and bearings, using handtools.
* Cleans and adjusts carburetor and magneto.
* Starts repaired engines and listens to sounds to test performance.
* Replaces engines on machine.
* May be designated according to type of engine repaired as lawnmower mechanic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers state agricultural program. Responsibilities include:
* Develops and coordinates programs for producing and marketing commodities, such as livestock, grain, dairy products, and produce.
* Interprets and enforces laws, rules, and regulations governing agricultural commodities.
* Directs programs, such as weights and measures, inspection of grain and livestock facilities, and processing, packaging, and distribution of agricultural products to ensure compliance with federal and state regulations.
* Conducts hearings to determine violations and penalties.
* Represents agency at meetings, conventions, and other forums to promote program objectives.
* Prepares and releases reports, studies, and other publications relating to marketing trends and program accomplishments.
* Develops and directs training program for staff personnel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in tempering, sawing, and cleaning metal preparatory to production of aluminum-alloy structural forms, performing duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that forms metal stock, such as bars, rods, squares, tubing, and wire, into coils or ornamental scrolls. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions and clamps specified scroll (die) into bed of machine.
* Threads workpiece through drag roll and clamps roll to center of die.
* Starts machine that turns die to draw workpiece along contour of die as vertical rod pushes workpiece into center of die, forming scroll or coil.
* May tend power shear or cutoff saw to cut stock to specified length.
* May insert leather strip along edge of die to protect finish of workpiece.
* May bend workpieces along edge of die manually.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates work of survey parties, and related staff, engaged in surveying earth's surface and preparing reports and legal descriptions of land. Responsibilities include:
* Develops organization policy or interprets it to staff.
* Prepares or approves budget for unit or organization within assigned area of responsibility.
* Coordinates work of land surveyor with that of legal, engineering, architectural, and other staff on project.
* Directs survey parties and projects, and reviews and certifies completed work to satisfy legal requirements.
* Writes or directs the writing of descriptions of land to satisfy legal requirements according to standard surveying practices.
* Appears as expert witness in court in cases involving land or boundary disputes.
* Monitors new technology, and evaluates and purchases or authorizes purchase of new equipment and supplies.
* Selects new staff for employment and takes disciplinary action when necessary.
* Assumes legal responsibility for work performed and is licensed by state.
Industry:Professional careers
