- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in mixing, grinding, thinning, tinting, cooking, or clarifying pigments and other ingredients used in making paints and related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans production schedules to coordinate departmental activities.
* Verifies batch tickets for compliance with master formula.
* Calculates batch quantities to ensure utilization of production capacity.
* Evaluates laboratory control-test results and tests batches of paint, using equipment such as grind-gauge, colorimeter, and viscometer, to verify adherence to specifications.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to activities of workers supervised as grinding supervisor; mixing supervisor; thinning-tinting supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in oxidation and hydration of elemental phosphorus, mixing soda ash with phosphoric acid to produce disodium phosphates, and drying, calcining, and cooling phosphate mixture to produce sodium tripolyphosphate. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains employees in operation of equipment.
* Reviews reports and observes recording-instrument charts, flowmeters, and gauges to verify specified operating conditions of equipment, and to diagnose equipment malfunctions.
* Inspects equipment to detect mechanical defects and malfunctions.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in grinding, dispersing, filtering, drying, and mixing chemicals to produce color pigments. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects mechanical equipment and pipelines for defects.
* Adjusts meters, gauges, and automatic controls, and repairs equipment, using handtools.
* Trains workers in operation of equipment.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to function as color control supervisor; color-making supervisor; drying-room supervisor; filter-press supervisor; grinding-room supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in grinding, dispersing, filtering, drying, and mixing chemicals to produce color pigments. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects mechanical equipment and pipelines for defects.
* Adjusts meters, gauges, and automatic controls, and repairs equipment, using handtools.
* Trains workers in operation of equipment.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to function as color control supervisor; color-making supervisor; drying-room supervisor; filter-press supervisor; grinding-room supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in manufacture of bar, granular, and liquid soap. Respnsibilities include:
* Requisitions materials, such as acids, dyes, perfumes, tallow, and packaging materials.
* Analyzes laboratory reports on in-process materials to determine changes in operating conditions required to resolve processing problems, such as excessive alkalinity or off-color materials.
* Examines finished product to determine conformance to specifications.
* Trains workers in machine operations.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cooking, thinning, filtering, storing, and blending gums, resins, and oils to produce varnish and related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans production schedules to coordinate cooking, thinning, filtering, storing, blending, and filling operations, according to processing time and availability of equipment, materials, personnel, and storage facilities.
* Converts master-formula quantities to smaller batch amounts, according to departmental production capacity.
* Reviews test results of viscosity and orders specified thinners to be added to varnish.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cooking, thinning, filtering, storing, and blending gums, resins, and oils to produce varnish and related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans production schedules to coordinate cooking, thinning, filtering, storing, blending, and filling operations, according to processing time and availability of equipment, materials, personnel, and storage facilities.
* Converts master-formula quantities to smaller batch amounts, according to departmental production capacity.
* Reviews test results of viscosity and orders specified thinners to be added to varnish.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, and pumping raw chemical materials to production units, and in loading finished products into tank cars and tank trucks. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains workers in new job assignments.
* Examines storage tanks, loading racks, and pumping equipment to ensure safe working conditions and to detect mechanical defects and malfunctions, such as hot bearings, excessive wear, and leaks.
* Observes meters and gauges to verify specified flow rates, temperatures, and pressures.
* Directs workers in transfer of raw materials from tank cars to specified storage areas, spotting of cars at unloading and loading stations, and loading finished products into tank cars.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in drying polyester chips and winding synthetic fibers. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes machines, equipment, personnel, and work areas to detect potential safety hazards, and enforces company safety rules.
* Inspects yarn on takeup machines for defects, such as unspecified yarn diameter.
* Confers with designated supervisory personnel to discuss matters related to takeup of yarn and drying of chips.
* Summons maintenance personnel to inspect machine for malfunctions or to repair machine.
* Usually inspects takeup unit at specified intervals to verify conformance to standard of polymer extrusion characteristics and yarn takeup characteristics.
* Turns valve and thermostat knobs to adjust polymer melt zone of extruders to conform to standard temperature.
* Prepares reports on areas, such as yarn waste, accidents, employee absenteeism, and work time records.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in salvaging defective or obsolete paint products. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with supervisors of sales, cost, production, and testing departments to determine sales possibilities for nonsalvageable paint, costs of reprocessing salvageable products, and reasons for return of goods by customers.
* Prepares work instructions and department assignments for reprocessing, reworking, or selling salvaged material.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
