- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in mixing colors for use in printing textiles. Respnsibilities include:
* Schedules mixing of colors to correspond with production schedule and issues formulas to workers.
* Compares color smears and printed samples with standard color swatches to determine if mixed colors meet specifications.
* Alters formulas if colors on printed sample do not match colors on sample swatch, utilizing knowledge of colors and printing requirements.
* Examines surplus color returned from printshop and schedules its use in other formulas.
* Inventories and requisitions supplies, such as base colors, starch, oils, and chemicals.
* Trains workers in operation of machines and equipment.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in mixing plastic resins, color pigments, and additives for use in machine molding of plastic items. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews production records for each molding machine to determine amount of plastic mixture used and whether amount available is sufficient to fill existing orders, and notifies production control personnel of findings.
* Determines amount of virgin plastic needed to combine with reground material and reformulates mixing order to meet production requirements.
* Examines samples of rejected products to determine cause of defect and recommends corrective action, based on knowledge of ingredients and molding machine operations.
* Trains new employees.
* Confers with management and subordinates to resolve production problems.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in compounding, weighing, and packaging of sulfonated oils, esters, stearates, and industrial soaps. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs workers in compounding ingredients, using knowledge of chemical properties and reactions of ingredients.
* Reviews cumulative weight charts and examines compounds in process to detect discrepancies in weight, odor, clarity, and color.
* Designates type and size of container for packaging, according to product.
* Reviews laboratory analysis of samples and orders changes in process specifications, according to knowledge of chemical processes, ingredient characteristics, and experience with specific products.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in mixing ingredients of pastes used to form cores or to line cans of dry cells.
* Computes amounts of ingredients required from work orders and formulas.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in milling, blending, bagging, and shipping dry glue. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs workers in moving and assembling prescribed amounts and kinds of glue for blending and shipment.
* Inspects assembled items and verifies amounts to ensure compliance with specifications.
* Directs worker to blend ingredients for specified period of time.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates frothing machine to mix air with latex for use in making foam rubber products. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes gauges and turns valves to regulate flow of latex and air into frothing tank.
* Starts agitators in frothing tank to mix air with latex.
* Weighs out specified quantity of mixed latex and compares with formula to determine density of latex.
* Drains latex from frothing tank into holding tanks.
* Signals pourer when latex is ready for molds.
* Regulates temperature and spray pumps in preconditioning chamber to heat and coat molds in preparation for loading.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes pigments or color concentrate to formulate coloring solutions used in dyeing leather or coated fabrics. Respnsibilities include:
* Compares sample of desired color with standard color specifications to determine pigments required.
* Weighs and mixes pigments or concentrate with thinning and drying solutions until mixture matches sample.
* Dyes piece of leather or coated fabric and compares it with sample to verify color.
* May examine color of dispersed pigment, using color-checking lamps.
* May weigh, add, and mix ingredients to correct color discrepancy.
* Records specifications necessary to produce desired color.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mixes pigments or base colors with paints, enamels, or lacquers to match standard or sample colors, following formulas and standard color samples. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts agitator in tank filled with basic paint product.
* Pours pigments or base colors from containers and dumps specified amounts into tank to color basic product.
* Smears sample of batch on glass or paper, using spatula or brush, and compares sample with standard color, using colorimeter.
* Repeats operation to attain specified shade.
* Records ingredients added on batch ticket.
* Ladles sample into container, writes identifying data on container, and submits sample to laboratory for final color, gloss, weight, and viscosity tests.
* May add materials to thin batch.
* May remove foreign matter from batch, using centrifuge.
* May weigh sample and calculate weight per gallon.
* May determine specific gravity, using hydrometer.
* May test for viscosity, using viscometer.
* May be designated according to product colored as Enamel Shader (paint & varnish); Lacquer Shader (paint & varnish); Latex-Paint Shader (paint & varnish); Oil-Paint Shader (paint & varnish).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to mix or grind daub, printing ink color, and color pigments, for artificial leather. Respnsibilities include:
* Calculates batch size according to roll yardage to be coated.
* Weighs and measures, according to formula, components, such as ball mill mix, color pigments, and oils to attain colors and specified consistency.
* Moves components to agitator or ball mill mixers and roll grinders for processing, using handtruck.
* Dumps ingredients into and starts machines that grind and mix them.
* Collects color sample and compares it with color standard.
* Adds ingredients, such as white, clear, or colored pigments, or thinner to correct color discrepancies.
* Prepares new color batches when drum content in inventory storage is low.
* Lifts and moves drums, using portable air-operated hydraulic hoist.
* May be designated according to operation performed as Ball-Mill Mixer; Daub-Color Matcher; Daub-Color Mixer; Grinding Operator; Print-Color Matcher; Print-Color Mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls mixing machine and auxiliary equipment to blend ingredients for explosives, such as dynamite, smokeless powder, and solid-propellant rocket fuel. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs out and charges specified quantities of solid materials into mixer, or feeds preweighed materials into mixing chamber.
* Meters prescribed quantities of liquid chemical agents, such as nitroglycerin, wetting agents, catalysts, or solvents into machine.
* Starts mixer to blend ingredients for specified time or until prescribed reaction occurs.
* Tilts mixer to discharge contents, moves dump lever, or shovels materials into containers for storage, shipment, or further processing.
* May compute quantities of chemical agents required for batch of given size, according to formula.
* May tend auxiliary equipment units, such as dissolving tanks, oven, or vibrating screens, to prepare or further process materials before or after mixing.
* When blending ingredients for pyrotechnic tracer shells, is designated Composition Mixer.
* When mixing nitroglycerin and dry ingredients to produce dynamite, regulating mixer speed and ingredients according to grade and type of dynamite specified, is designated Dope Mixer.
Industry:Professional careers
