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A professional who this division includes occupations, not elsewhere classified, concerned with feeding, tending, operating, controlling, and setting up machines to work various materials and products.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with machining plastics materials, synthetic resins, synthetic rubber, cellulosic and manmade organic fibers, and leather, including artificial leather.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in slitting rolls of plastics sheets into strips, rewinding strips into rolls of specified size, and in packaging, storing and shipping rolls.
* Trains new employees.
* Directs workers in setting up slitting machine, and in packaging finished rolls and marking rolls with data, such as lot number and size.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise workers engaged in packaging and shipping only and be designated shipping supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cutting foam rubber used in manufacture of furniture cushions, and sets up and operates foam cutting machines to cut loaves of foam into specified sizes. Responsibilities include:
* Explains and demonstrates work procedures and material saving techniques to new workers.
* Confers with plant personnel to expedite flow of foam products.
* Transports loaves of foam to and from machines, using dolly, and positions loaves of foam on table of machine.
* Turns handwheels, setscrews, and bolts, using handtools, to set stops and position patterns under ram of machine and to set up and operate cutting machines, such as vertical slicing and horizontal slicing machine, to cut loaves of foam into specified sizes.
* Examines sliced foam to verify product size and conformance to product specifications, using tape measure.
* Records information on work order, such as date of cut, quantity of products, and time of order.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and controls operation of computerized deburring and tooling machine to perform series of machining operations, such as drilling, chamfering, and deburring, on ball-shaped plastic typing element for use in electric typewriters. Responsibilities include:
* Reads blueprints, job order, and tooling instructions to determine cutting tools and sequence of operations.
* Positions and secures deburring and cutting tools onto holding fixtures of machine, using handtools.
* Loads plastic elements into feed mechanism of machine.
* Depresses switch to actuate machine and observes machining operation to detect feeding and tooling malfunctions as typing element is automatically fed through series of tooling stations.
* Adjusts and changes machine tools to ensure deburring meets company specifications.
* Repairs or replaces parts, such as cylinders and air lines, using handtools.
* Inspects machined typing elements at discharge end of machine to ensure conformance to quality specifications, using gauges and microscope.
* Notifies engineering personnel when corrective action is required.
* Maintains stock of machined parts and cutting tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up battery of punch presses to stamp out hair-felt and cardboard wads for shotgun shells. Responsibilities include:
* Removes, replaces, and adjusts cutters, punches, bushings, dies, ratchets, pawls, web choppers, springs, and chains, using handtools.
* Turns setscrews and stop nuts to synchronize feeding and punching mechanisms and to position tools.
* Measures sample wads after each tool change or adjustment to verify specified diameter, using ring gauge.
* Notifies maintenance mechanic when machines, conveyors, or screening barrels require major repairs.
* Trains new workers in tending machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine that automatically vulcanizes continuous lengths of rubber hose. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls wire protruding from end of hose and bends hose into hook to attach several lengths of hose to provide continuous feed to vulcanizer.
* Moves controls of machine to specified settings to regulate temperature, pressure, feed rate, and vulcanizing time.
* Lubricates, adjusts, and makes running repairs to machine, using grease gun, welding equipment, and handtools.
* Records hose footage processed and vulcanizing time in production log.
* Transfers filled boxes of vulcanized hose to inspection department, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and repairs variety of plastic fabricating machines that weld and assemble components into plastic products and print decorative logos onto products. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts, aligns, and bolts fixtures, dies, and welding heads onto plastic fabricating machines, such as hot-stamping, silk screening, ultrasonic welding, and automatic assembling and stamping machines, following verbal instructions and using variety of wrenches.
* Turns knobs or dials to set controls, such as pneumatic stamping pressure, dwell time, conveyor speed, and ram and horizontal stroke of machines.
* Positions rolls of foil onto feed reels and threads foil around guides onto takeup reels to secure foil on machines.
* Starts machines to obtain sample products, and examines samples for production defects.
* Readjusts machine controls or realigns dies or fixtures as necessary to correct detected defects in products, utilizing knowledge and experience of machine operations.
* Examines moving machine parts during production operations and removes and replaces worn and frayed machine parts as needed to ensure that machines function smoothly.
* May fabricate replacement dies, using bandsaw, knife, hand file, and drill press.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates sheeting machine to slice cakes of baked plastics into sheets of uniform thickness. Responsibilities include:
* Turns crank to adjust cutting position of knife.
* Adjusts feed rolls of machine to regulate pressure of cake against knife, using wrenches.
* Turns steam valves to regulate temperature of heating chamber.
* Loads cake onto conveyor of machine manually or by using hoist, and starts machine.
* Observes gauges to verify machine temperatures.
* Measures thickness of sheets with micrometer.
* Examines surface of sliced sheets for imperfections and replaces knife, using wrenches.
* Turns crank to adjust tension on knife.
* May sharpen knife, using whetstone.
* May count and record number of sheets cut.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates sheeting machine to slice cakes of baked plastics into sheets of uniform thickness. Responsibilities include:
* Turns crank to adjust cutting position of knife.
* Adjusts feed rolls of machine to regulate pressure of cake against knife, using wrenches.
* Turns steam valves to regulate temperature of heating chamber.
* Loads cake onto conveyor of machine manually or by using hoist, and starts machine.
* Observes gauges to verify machine temperatures.
* Measures thickness of sheets with micrometer.
* Examines surface of sliced sheets for imperfections and replaces knife, using wrenches.
* Turns crank to adjust tension on knife.
* May sharpen knife, using whetstone.
* May count and record number of sheets cut.
Industry:Professional careers