- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who repairs, adjusts, and installs chemical process equipment, according to knowledge of equipment operation and plant specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Observes equipment, such as pumps, compressors, generator, reactors, heat exchangers, filters, grinders, and absorbing towers, in operation or confers with operators to detect and diagnose mechanical defects or malfunction, utilizing knowledge of mechanical function and performance characteristics of equipment.
* Disassembles equipment, using handtools and portable power tools.
* Examines parts for defects, such as breakage or excessive wear.
* Verifies dimensions of parts, using calipers, micrometers, and scales.
* Sends parts to welding or machine shop for repair or for fabrication of replacement parts.
* Replaces defective parts and reassembles equipment.
* Adjusts clearance and timing of control devices to specifications, using pliers, screwdriver, and wrenches.
* Installs new equipment or modifies existing installations, following blueprints and technical advice of engineers.
* Directs repairer ii in performing tasks, such as dismantling and assembling equipment.
* May be designated according to equipment repaired as evaporator repairer; pump repairer; still repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs pneumatic tools and air motors, such as pneumatic hammers, chisels, and reamers, using mechanic's tools. Responsibilities include:
* Starts motor or tool and listens to sound to locate cause of trouble.
* Disassembles motor and repairs or replaces defective gears, pistons, connecting rods, and other parts, using taps, files, reamers, wrenches, and other handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains pneumatic-tube carrier system, using handtools and precision-measuring instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Locates sources of trouble.
* Repairs and installs parts, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs pumps and pump power units, such as centrifugal and plunger-type pumps, and diesel-engine, gasoline-engine, and electric-motor power units, using hoists and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Diagnoses trouble in pumps.
* Dismantles pumps and repairs or replaces defective parts, using handtools.
* Reseats and grinds valves.
* Tests performances of repaired pumps.
* May wire motor to switchboard and install fuse box.
* May be designated according to type of pump repaired as water-pump servicer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs pumps and pump power units, such as centrifugal and plunger-type pumps, and diesel-engine, gasoline-engine, and electric-motor power units, using hoists and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Diagnoses trouble in pumps.
* Dismantles pumps and repairs or replaces defective parts, using handtools.
* Reseats and grinds valves.
* Tests performances of repaired pumps.
* May wire motor to switchboard and install fuse box.
* May be designated according to type of pump repaired as water-pump servicer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and modifies firearms to blueprint and customer specifications, using handtools and machines, such as grinders, planers, and millers. Responsibilities include:
* Fits action and barrel into stock and aligns parts.
* Installs parts, such as metallic or optical sights, pistol grips, recoil pads, and decorative pieces of firearms, using screws and handtools.
* Rebores barrels on boring machine to enlarge caliber of bore.
* Operates broaching machine to cut rifling in barrel of small arms.
* Installs choke device on shotguns to control shot pattern.
* Operates machine to grind and polish metal parts.
* Immerses metal parts in bluing salt bath to impart rust resistant surface and blue color to metal.
* Fires firearms with proof loads to determine strength characteristics, correct alignment, and assembly of piece.
* Fabricates wooden stock for guns according to customer specifications.
* Refinishes wooden stocks for rifles and shotguns by hand sanding and rubbing with special finishing oil and quick-drying lacquer.
* May lay out plans on paper and calculate bullet-flight arcs, sight positions, and other details to design new guns.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lubricates, adjusts, repairs, and inspects machinery used to clean, crush, size, and otherwise prepare coal, limestone, or rock salt for commercial or industrial use, or for further processing.
* May be designated according to work station as breaker repairer; preparation-plant repairer; tipple repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains rubber-covered and rubber-lined equipment in pulp mill, such as belting, impellors, pipes, pumps, and valves, using knives, handtools, and pressure vulcanizers. Responsibilities include:
* Examines exposed rubberized equipment for flaws and excessive wear.
* Selects rubber stock according to type of materials and manufacturer's specifications.
* Dismantles equipment and replaces or repairs damaged parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, tests, repairs, and installs equipment, such as liquid gas converters and compressors in field installations to supply compressed gas for industrial and therapeutic use. Responsibilities include:
* Dismantles, tests, and analyzes malfunctioning equipment, using blueprints, manuals, handtools, and power tools, and tests apparatus to locate defects.
* Tests, repairs, and adjusts electrical circuits and equipment, such as starters, motors, rectifiers, relays, and heaters, using schematics and handtools and power tools.
* Solders, brazes, and welds materials to repair and replace copper and steel piping and equipment parts.
* Records repair work performed and condition of equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains and repairs machines and equipment used to process and distribute water for human consumption and industrial use. Responsibilities include:
* Dismantles, or partially dismantles electric motors, turbines, pumps, hydraulic valves, chlorinators, limers, meters, gauges, and other equipment, to gain access to or remove faulty parts, using hand and power tools, such as wrenches, screwdrivers, and hoists.
* Repairs or replaces defective parts.
* Inspects machines and equipment periodically, lubricating moving parts, or replacing worn parts to prevent breakdown or malfunctioning.
* May operate plant equipment to process and distribute water.
Industry:Professional careers
