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A professional who tends mixing machine that blends metal powders with diamonds and powered press that presses metal powder and mixed diamond powder onto bottom surface of mold cavity. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and dumps ingredients into mixing machine.
* Starts machine that blends metal powder with diamonds.
* Removes mixture from machine and distributes portions to mold loaders.
* Requisitions graphite molds and punches.
* Pours metal powder onto backing cavity of mold and mixed diamond powder onto front of mold cavity, and places mold on table of powered press.
* Starts machine that presses powders onto bottom surface of mold cavity.
* Removes mold from press and inserts separation plates between center surfaces of molds.
* Glues molds together.
* Records number of molds filled from each diamond batch.
* Removes excess particles from induction-fired molds.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that washes, treats, and dries formed dry-charge battery plates. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to drain water into bath compartment.
* Mixes solutions, according to specifications, in measuring tank and drains solutions into other compartments.
* Ignites oven burner and starts blower.
* Observes thermometer and gauges and adjusts temperature control and valves to maintain specified temperature and pressure in dryer.
* Starts and regulates speed of conveyor that conveys batteries through bath, solutions, and dryer.
* Determines oxygen content of gas in oven, using testing device and adjusts airflow to reduce oxidation of plates.
* Transfers batteries from forming department to machine, using handtruck.
* Strips connectors from batteries and loads batteries into racks in water bath.
* Loads containers (battery boxes) from pallet to handtruck at discharge end of machine.
* Unloads batteries from dryer and tests each battery for moisture content, using resistance meter.
* Segregates damp batteries and inserts dry batteries in containers according to specified polarity.
* Transfers batteries to final assembly area, using handtruck.
* May tend conveyor-equipped drying compartment that dries battery plates and be designated Plate-Drying-Machine Tender (elec.
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Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that sprays wood or plastic heels with lacquer for preservative and decorative effect. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours lacquer into dispenser.
* Turns valve to adjust spray mechanism and seats heel on spindle.
* Activates revolving spindle and spray mechanism to spray lacquer on heel.
* Examines heel to determine coverage.
* Adds thinning solution to lacquer as needed.
* Loads finished heels on rack to dry.
* May spray leather heels with wax.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes wrinkles from plastic or nylon zippers. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts reel of continuous chain zipper onto payoff spindle and turns steam valve to heat grooved irons.
* Depresses pedal to separate irons and positions chain between irons with nylon or plastic filament in groove.
* Releases pedal to close irons and starts machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that coats jewelry parts with powdered enamel. Respnsibilities include:
* Places jewelry on racks, rods, or in wire trays, and sprays jewelry with agar solution for subsequent application of powdered enamel on metal, using spray gun.
* Fills hopper of machine with specified shade of powdered enamel.
* Places rods or racks on conveyor and starts vibrating machine that shakes powder onto parts passing under opening.
* Dries enamel-coated parts in oven preparatory to firing them at high temperature.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that moves hard-surface floor covering over inspection table, trims selvage edges, and rolls up inspected material, working as member of crew. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine that pulls hard-surface floor covering across cutting table and onto roll-up spindle.
* Sets selvage knives on both sides of table to cut specified width from edge of material.
* Scans floor covering through mirrors for inspection marks, and stops equipment to cut out defective area, using linoleum knife.
* Guides floor covering under knives to make specified lengthwise split of defective area from material.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tumbling barrels that impregnate shotgun-shell filler wads with wax to seal propellant charge against moisture and facilitate ejection of wad when shell is fired. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and dumps specified quantity of wads and wax into steam-heated barrel.
* Stops barrel at end of prescribed time and examines wads for color shade indicating sufficient impregnation.
* Weighs specified number of impregnated wads and compares with weight of equal number of dry wads, using chart, to confirm that correct amount of wax has been absorbed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends batteries of automatic machines that tumble wads for shotgun shells to remove feathery edges, gauge thickness, and lubricate circumference with wax. Respnsibilities include:
* Fills tumbling barrel with wads from overhead hopper and starts tumbler rotating.
* Examines wads after estimated time to verify that edges are smooth.
* Starts machines that reject too thick or too thin wads and replaces filled barrels under accepted and rejected chutes.
* Dumps accepted wads into pneumatic conveyor that carries them to lubricator hopper.
* Turns steam valves to liquefy and regulate flow of wax over lubricating plate.
* Starts feeder plate to arrange wads flat-side-up and feed them between roller and lubricating plate that coats sides with wax.
* Weighs designated number of wads at prescribed intervals before and after lubricating to determine amount of wax applied.
* Clears jammed wads, using wire hook.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends batteries of automatic machines that tumble wads for shotgun shells to remove feathery edges, gauge thickness, and lubricate circumference with wax. Respnsibilities include:
* Fills tumbling barrel with wads from overhead hopper and starts tumbler rotating.
* Examines wads after estimated time to verify that edges are smooth.
* Starts machines that reject too thick or too thin wads and replaces filled barrels under accepted and rejected chutes.
* Dumps accepted wads into pneumatic conveyor that carries them to lubricator hopper.
* Turns steam valves to liquefy and regulate flow of wax over lubricating plate.
* Starts feeder plate to arrange wads flat-side-up and feed them between roller and lubricating plate that coats sides with wax.
* Weighs designated number of wads at prescribed intervals before and after lubricating to determine amount of wax applied.
* Clears jammed wads, using wire hook.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that chemically cleans semiconductor wafers used in manufacture of semiconductor components, such as transistors, diodes, and integrated circuits. Respnsibilities include:
* Places specified program card into cleaning equipment.
* Places wafers in cleaning trays, using tweezers.
* Loads trays into cleaning equipment.
* Pours cleaning solutions, such as hydrogen peroxide, sulfuric acid, and hydrochloric acid into specified tank of cleaning equipment.
* Presses buttons to activate cleaning cycle.
* Removes semiconductor wafers from trays, using tweezers.
* Visually inspects semiconductor wafers for blemishes.
* Maintains production reports.
Industry:Professional careers
