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Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who rebuilds automobile and truck clutches, using handtools and power tools. Respnsibilities include: * Immerses clutch assembly in solvent to remove grease and residue. * Places assembly into machine that tumbles assembly in abrasive chips to remove rust. * Disassembles clutch, using handtools. * Grinds and buffs clutch plates and facing, using portable abrasive wheel. * Replaces facing on clutch plates, using riveting gun or riveting press. * Replaces worn or damaged clutch parts. * Reassembles clutch and replaces cover, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains records concerned with rental, sale, and management of real estate, performing any combination of following duties. Responsibilities include: * Types copies of listings of real estate rentals and sales for distribution to trade publications, and for use as reference data by other departments. * Computes interest owed, penalty payment, amount of principal, and taxes due on mortgage loans, using calculating machine. * Holds in escrow collateral posted to ensure fulfillment of contracts in transferring real estate and property titles. * Checks due notices on taxes and renewal dates of insurance and mortgage loans to take follow-up action. * Sends out rent notices to tenants. * Writes checks in payment of bills due, keeps record of disbursements, and examines cancelled returned checks for endorsement. * Secures estimates from contractors for building repairs. * May compile list of prospects from leads in newspapers and trade periodicals to locate prospective purchasers of real estate. * May open, sort, and distribute mail. * May submit photographs and descriptions of property to newspaper for publication. * May maintain and balance bank accounts for sales transactions and operating expenses. * May maintain log of sales and commissions received by sales agent, real estate . * May scan records and files to identify dates requiring administrative action, such as insurance premium due dates, tax due notices, and lease expiration dates. * May compose and prepare routine correspondence, rental notices, letters, and material for advertisement.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects materials received, finished products, and work in process of fabrication into metal products to ensure conformance with work orders and diagrammatic and template specifications. Respnsibilities include: * Measures centerlines and reference points to verify initial and assembly layout and machine setup, using layout plate, templates, squares, straightedge, feelers, tape, transit, and plumblines. * Verifies physical properties and size of materials, such as plates, sheets, structural shapes, castings, forgings, dies, fixtures, and work produced by fabricating machines, using magnaflux machine, surface plate, hardness testing equipment, gauges, and micrometers. * Verifies hole size, using plug gauge. * Examines finished products for rough edges, cracks, and appearance. * Marks parts for acceptance or rejection. * Makes reports to suggest changes in dies, fixtures, and materials used. * Reports inspection results. * Makes sketches and recommends procedure for special salvage or scrapping operations. * May inspect material for internal defects, using x-ray and ultrasonic test equipment. * May specialize in single phase of inspection and be designated Lay-Out Inspector; Machine-Operations Inspector; Template Inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who solves engineering problems concerned with industrial utilization of gas as source of power. Responsibilities include: * Studies industrial processes to determine where and how application of gas fuel-consuming equipment can be made. * Designs equipment to meet process requirements. * Examines gas-powered equipment after installation to ensure proper functioning. * Investigates equipment failures and difficulties and diagnoses faulty operation. * Corrects or makes recommendations to maintenance crew to correct faults. * Conducts safety, breakdown, and other engineering tests on gas fuel-consuming equipment to ascertain efficiency and safety of design and construction. * May solve problems concerned with other gas-consuming equipment, such as air-conditioning and heating.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates brakedrum lathe to resurface automotive brakedrums, and operates grinding machine to grind brakeshoe linings. Respnsibilities include: * Clamps hub and drum on lathe spindle and adjusts cutting tool to machine drum surface. * Starts spindle and feeds tool into drum by hand, or adjusts automatic feed mechanism. * Measures drum to verify specified dimensions, using calipers, drum gauge, or micrometer. * Clamps brakeshoe on grinder and grinds lining to specified arc as determined by new diameter of drum. * May replace defective brake cylinders and fill master brake cylinder with brake fluid. * May mount wheel on axle and adjust drumshoe clearance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and coordinates production procedures in industrial plant. Responsibilities include: * Directs production departments. * Regulates and coordinates functions of office and shop. * Introduces efficient production line methods. * Initiates and directs procedures to increase company output.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends mechanical or hydraulic presses which compress metal powders into parts, such as bearings, gears, filters, and rings, and coin them to specified size. Respnsibilities include: * Pours metal powder into hopper. * Starts press, observes operation, and notifies press setter of malfunctions. * Examines finished part for nicks, burrs, and cracks. * Weighs parts on scale and measures dimensions, using micrometers or fixed gauges, to ensure conformance to specifications. * May adjust shuttle mechanism to regulate amount of powder in part. * Places finished parts on tray or in stock pan. * May write identifying information, such as mix number, number of parts, and date, on tag and attach it to tray or pan. * Feeds parts into coining press to correct distortions created in sinking process. * Removes parts from press and inspects them for burrs or other imperfections. * Places parts on tray or in stock pan. * May tend forming presses that fabricate clockwork parts from powdered metal.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates computerized captioning system to provide $T3captions$T1 for movies or taped television productions for hearing-impaired viewers, and to provide captions (subtitles) in English or foreign language. Responsibilities include: * Listens to dialogue of production and writes caption phrases for dialogue. * Watches production and reviews captions simultaneously to determine which caption phrases to leave in, which to revise, and where captions should be placed on screen. * Enters commands to edit and place captions, and to synchronize captions with dialogue. * May write captions to describe music and background noises. * May discuss captions with director, motion picture , director, television , producer , or producer . * May translate foreign language dialogue into English language captions, or translate English dialogue into foreign language captions. * May oversee encoding of captions to master tape of television production.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates hoop-flaring-and-coiling machine to coil and flare strips of hoop steel to fit barrel. Respnsibilities include: * Turns setscrews that adjust distance between rolls to obtain specified diameter and flare of hoop, using wrench. * Starts machine and feeds end of strip into rolls of machine that coil and flare strip. * Removes coiled strip from machine and stacks it on floor.
Industry:Professional careers