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Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends equipment that distills printed circuit board (PCB) processing solvents from PCB processing waste solutions and etches gold from PCB's to reclaim gold and solvents. Respnsibilities include: * Places gold covered board section in drum and inserts drum in agitation system of rinse tank manually, and presses button to start and stop agitation at specified interval to rinse boards. * Removes drum from rinse tank and places drum in agitator system of reclamation tank. * Pushes button to start and stop agitator at specified interval to remove gold from boards. * Removes drum from reclamation tank and places drum in agitator system of rinse tank. * Pushes button to start and stop agitation system at specified interval to rinse boards. * Removes drum from rinse tank and places PCB's into barrel. * Pushes switch on rinse tank to pump gold solution from tank into empty barrel. * Pushes buttons on still to start pumps and equipment that distill PCB processing solvents from solutions. * Observes gauges on panel indicating collection barrels are full and presses button to shut off system.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment units or semiautomatic system that processes chemical substances into industrial or consumer products, such as detergents, emulsifiers, salts, bleaching agents, acids, and synthetic resins. Respnsibilities include: * Dumps specified amounts of solid materials into heating vessels or blending tanks; and turns valves to feed liquid and gaseous materials through equipment units, or sets controls in specified sequence on control panel to start automatic feed. * Turns valves or moves controls to maintain system at specified temperature, pressure, and vacuum levels. * Observes chemical reactions; monitors gauges, signals, and recorders; and receives notification from control laboratory, supervisor, or other workers to make specified operating adjustments. * Draws samples of products for laboratory analysis. * Maintains log of gauge readings and shift production. * May perform chemical tests on product to ensure conformance with specifications, using standard test equipment, materials, and procedure. * May be designated according to substance processed as low-chloride soda operator; salt-plant operator; sodium-methylate operator; equipment tended as styrene-dehydration-reactor operator; tower operator ii; or reaction produced as emulsification operator; precipitation equipment tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who starts conveyors that automatically convey slaked lime to chlorinating chamber where it is transformed into bleaching powder. * Spreads lime uniformly over chamber floor, using shovel or wood spreader, and rakes spread lime to furrow layer, exposing maximum surface area for chlorination. * Shovels bleaching powder through chutes into containers, and closes containers preparatory to storage or shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who starts conveyors that automatically convey slaked lime to chlorinating chamber where it is transformed into bleaching powder. * Spreads lime uniformly over chamber floor, using shovel or wood spreader, and rakes spread lime to furrow layer, exposing maximum surface area for chlorination. * Shovels bleaching powder through chutes into containers, and closes containers preparatory to storage or shipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in processing organic chemicals, plant and animal tissue, and solvents for use in manufacturing medications. * Sets up and operates mixing, drying, pulverization, distillation, filtration, separation, extraction, and crystallization equipment to produce test samples of new products. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in processing organic chemicals, plant and animal tissue, and solvents for use in manufacturing medications. * Sets up and operates mixing, drying, pulverization, distillation, filtration, separation, extraction, and crystallization equipment to produce test samples of new products. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in controlling equipment to produce nitric acid from anhydrous ammonia and reprocessing nitric acid to produce solid and liquid fertilizers and fertilizer materials. Respnsibilities include: * Directs workers in setting up equipment according to product specifications, using knowledge of equipment functions and chemical processes involved. * Observes recording-instrument charts, flowmeters, and gauges to determine processing conditions, and analyzes laboratory test results to verify conformance of product to specifications. * Trains workers in operation of equipment. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in pressing, audio-testing, and inspecting phonograph records. Respnsibilities include: * Directs workers in setting up record presses. * Examines records for defects, such as bubbles and dents and analyzes data compiled in audio-testing to determine cause of defects. * Directs workers in changing record compound, ordering new dies, or cleaning dies to correct defects. * Adjusts press controls to regulate water and steam pressure or length of process cycle, according to type of record compound. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in weighing, crushing, and mixing ingredients, and operating machines to manufacture asphalt and vinyl asbestos floor tile. Respnsibilities include: * Examines product to identify contaminated, defective, or substandard material. * Trains new workers in job duties. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in compounding inert and active ingredients to produce pharmaceutical products in tablet, granule, ampoule, liquid, powder, and ointment form. * Determines processing methods necessary to achieve product of specified standard, using knowledge of chemical reactions and pharmaceutical processing methods and procedures. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers