- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that combines paper and plaster to form continuous ribbon of wallboard (plasterboard). Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts shaft through paper roll, places plates and collars over ends of shaft, and secures collars with wrench.
* Mounts and aligns rolls of paper in machine racks, using hoist.
* Threads paper through guides with unsized surface next to plaster.
* Starts and monitors machine for alignment and defective paper, such as pinholes, rough surface, mill splices, and soiled areas.
* Stops machine to cut defective paper from roll and splice ends by overlapping them and to splice exhausted paper to new roll.
* Records identifying number, weight, and amount of paper wasted for each roll.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends waxing machine that bonds several strands of fiberglass yarn into single cord. Respnsibilities include:
* Places bobbins of yarn on creel of machine and threads yarn through guides, over and under tension bars, through strip heater, wax reservoir, dies, and cooling tank, and laps end of cord around mandrel of winding machine.
* Places chunks of wax in melting tank and turns valve to admit melted wax into reservoir.
* Starts machine and observes waxing and winding process to detect broken ends.
* Ties ends together by hand.
* Dips thermometer into wax and water or reads temperature gauge on control panel to detect variations from standards.
* Doffs tubes of bonded cord from machine.
* Weighs tubes of bonded cord and packs cord in shipping containers.
* Records weight on labels and production records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends waxing machine that bonds several strands of fiberglass yarn into single cord. Respnsibilities include:
* Places bobbins of yarn on creel of machine and threads yarn through guides, over and under tension bars, through strip heater, wax reservoir, dies, and cooling tank, and laps end of cord around mandrel of winding machine.
* Places chunks of wax in melting tank and turns valve to admit melted wax into reservoir.
* Starts machine and observes waxing and winding process to detect broken ends.
* Ties ends together by hand.
* Dips thermometer into wax and water or reads temperature gauge on control panel to detect variations from standards.
* Doffs tubes of bonded cord from machine.
* Weighs tubes of bonded cord and packs cord in shipping containers.
* Records weight on labels and production records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who positions swinging conveyor spout over hopper of machine that deposits slate granules on surface of asphalt-coated roofing felt, and notifies slate mixer to start conveyor and flow of slate of specified color.
* Verifies level of slate in tanks to maintain supply.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to spray melted glass fibers onto products, such as boat hulls and lawn furniture. Respnsibilities include:
* Feeds strands of raw fiberglass into machine, monitors gauges, and moves controls to obtain specified temperature, pressure, and flow rate of molten glass through spray jets onto article to be coated.
* Cleans and adjusts machine, according to maintenance schedule or instructions from supervisor, using handtools and prescribed cleaning agents.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls combination drying oven and spray booth equipment that preheats and glazes bisque ware. Respnsibilities include:
* Lights gas jets of drying ovens that preheat ware to set glaze.
* Adjusts controls to regulate speed of conveyor.
* Starts pumps to pump glaze to spray guns.
* Positions spray guns in booths at required angles, adjusts nozzles, and turns valves controlling air pressure to produce even coating of glaze according to size and shape of ware.
* Examines glazed ware for cracks, glaze runs, and uneven thickness of glaze.
* Cleans machine and replaces clogged glaze filters, air lines, and spray nozzles.
* May coat interior of ware with glaze, using spray gun.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls combination drying oven and spray booth equipment that preheats and glazes bisque ware. Respnsibilities include:
* Lights gas jets of drying ovens that preheat ware to set glaze.
* Adjusts controls to regulate speed of conveyor.
* Starts pumps to pump glaze to spray guns.
* Positions spray guns in booths at required angles, adjusts nozzles, and turns valves controlling air pressure to produce even coating of glaze according to size and shape of ware.
* Examines glazed ware for cracks, glaze runs, and uneven thickness of glaze.
* Cleans machine and replaces clogged glaze filters, air lines, and spray nozzles.
* May coat interior of ware with glaze, using spray gun.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies powdered glaze to plain or decorated clayware. Respnsibilities include:
* Dusts dry glaze over portion of ware previously coated with liquid size.
* Removes excess powder and distributes glaze evenly over sized area, by hand.
* May smooth and clean ware to be dusted, using sandpaper and sponge.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies powdered glaze to plain or decorated clayware. Respnsibilities include:
* Dusts dry glaze over portion of ware previously coated with liquid size.
* Removes excess powder and distributes glaze evenly over sized area, by hand.
* May smooth and clean ware to be dusted, using sandpaper and sponge.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sprays back of mirror glass with silver or copper solution to coat glass, using spray gun. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valve to admit solution and reducing agents into spray gun and sprays surface of glass.
* Rinses glass with hose before and after application of solution to remove residue.
* Observes sprayed surface to detect spots, streaks, and residue coloring that indicate faulty mix or reducer burns.
* Transfers silvered or coppered glass from rack onto conveyor of drying ovens.
* May clean, polish, and frame mirrors.
Industry:Professional careers
