- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who feeds and off bears splitting machine that cuts stone slabs for further processing. Responsibilities include:
* Signals overhead crane operator to lower sling, places sling around slab, and signals crane operator to lift and transport slab from layout area to conveyor of splitting machine.
* Pushes stone slab along roller conveyor onto machine work surface (turntable) and rotates slab to align cutting marks on stone with blade of machine, as directed by operator.
* Turns stone on work surface of machine for additional cuts.
* Pushes stone from splitting machine along roller conveyor to holding area.
* Picks up broken fragments of stone and places them into rubble container, and directs crane operator to lower sling to lift large pieces of rubble for deposit in container.
* Attaches crane hook to rubble container to facilitate removal to spoil pile.
* Works as member of team.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates multiple-circular-saw machine that automatically cuts insulation board into panels. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts saws on shaft, using rule and handtools.
* Starts machine that automatically feeds boards from conveyor into saws.
* Measures sample panels for conformance to specified dimensions.
* Inspects cut edge for indications of dulled saw blades.
* Readjusts or replaces blades.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to cut and grind refractory clay blocks to specified dimensions. Responsibilities include:
* Measures and scribes cutting lines on block, using ruler and scribe.
* Lifts block onto bed on cutoff grinder and secures block to bed with holding attachment, using handtools.
* Turns handwheels to position block under cutting blade.
* Starts machines that cut block along scribed lines and grind it to specified dimensions.
* Shapes unmachinable blocks, using chisels, hammers, and hand stones.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates diamond or carbon silicate saw to cut drain grooves and sink openings in sandstone countertops and smooths and rounds sink openings, using portable sander, metal bar, and sandpaper. Responsibilities include:
* Pushes countertop from conveyor onto saw bed and positions top under saw blade.
* Turns valve to start flow of coolant onto saw blade and pulls trigger to start rotation of saw blade.
* Lowers saw to stone surface and tightens wing nut to maintain cutting level and pushes saw through slab to cut sink opening, following predrilled holes as guides.
* Turns slab on bed to cut remaining sides of sink opening.
* Installs abrasive blade on saw, using wrench, to cut drain grooves in specified slabs.
* Pushes stone slab into sanding booth and completes cutting of sink openings, using portable, diamond-bladed circular saw.
* Rounds and smooths sink edges, using portable disk sander, iron bar, and sandpaper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates pneumatic surfacing machine to shape and surface stone for building or monumental purposes. Responsibilities include:
* Aligns stone with surfacing machine head as stone is lowered on timber or stone bed, and levels stone, using crowbar, hammer, blocks, wedges, and spirit level.
* Lays out dimensions on stone surface according to diagram, using rule, square, crayon, or chalked line.
* Chips off stone in excess of stone required for finishing, using hammer and chisels or bull-set (wedge-shaped hammer).
* Inserts surfacing chisels or bushhammer into surfacing head according to finish specified or task being performed.
* Turns crank to lower surfacing head onto stone.
* Turns compressed air valve to activate cutting tool and guides tool over stone surface, following marks on stone and diagram of finished product, to chip fragments from stone surface and work surface down to an even finish.
* Scans specifications and verifies progress of surfacing, using straightedge, rule, and square.
* Finishes curved or irregular surfaces, using pneumatic handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with circular diamond saw that cuts abrasive sticks and stones for honing machines. Responsibilities include:
* Places abrasive bricks (blocks) against guide and clamps bricks onto holding fixture of machine.
* Starts machine and flow of coolant.
* Presses button to start feed mechanism that moves brick against diamond saw to cut abrasive sticks of specified dimensions.
* Measures cut stick, using micrometer.
* Removes burrs from stick, using file made of same material.
* May tend diamond saw to trim crust from abrasive brick to expose material for hardness testing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine, equipped with circular cutting blade, that assembles fiberglass mats of various weights and textures from rolls into stacks and cuts stacks (lay-ups) to specified length for use in manufacture of skis. Responsibilities include:
* Selects color-coded rolls and mounts them on feeder-rack spools in specified order, and threads mats between feed rollers to load machine.
* Pushes knife trigger-mechanism to designated mark to establish cutting intervals.
* Starts machine and observes emerging lay-ups to detect tears in cut edges.
* Lifts lever-control of stone that sharpens blade to restore clean-cutting action during machine operation.
* Lifts and carries cut lay-ups from off bearing table to storage.
* Replaces worn-out blade, using hex-wrench.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends circular abrasive saw to cut carbon or graphite stock to specified size or bevel. Responsibilities include:
* Measures carbon or graphite stock, using rule or micrometers and marks line of cut with rule or scribe.
* Turns setscrews to adjust guides and stops, according to size of stock.
* Positions and clamps stock against guides.
* Starts machine and pushes stock along machine bed through cutting disk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to cut and shape talc blocks into crayons. Responsibilities include:
* Removes block from chute and positions block onto saw bed.
* Pushes block into saw blade to cut and square edge for slabbing.
* Feeds squared block onto rotating slotted grate that moves block through multiple blade saw that cuts block into slabs of specified width.
* Stacks slabs in holding fixture of machine equipped with pneumatic plunger that pushes slab through blades that cut slabs into crayons of specified size, or places slab against guide and pushes slab into saw blade to cut individual crayons from slab.
* Feeds square crayons into v-shaped groove on grinding machine and pushes crayon between grinding wheels that grind edges and round crayon.
* Dumps boxes of crayons into bins or chutes for grading.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine equipped with multiple abrasive blades that cuts asbestos-cement pipe into blanks in manufacture of pipe couplings. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts and spaces abrasive blades to cut pipe to specified lengths, using wrench.
* Turns crank to set hydraulic lifters that automatically raise blades that cut pipe.
* Measures diameter of pipe, using tape measure, and turns handwheel to adjust position of pressure-drive roll according to diameter of pipe being cut.
* Loads pipe onto feed rack by hand, or using monorail hoist, and rolls pipe into position over cutting blades.
* Moves lever to lower pressure-drive roll that holds and rotates pipe during cutting process.
* Presses buttons to start machine that cuts pipe into blanks.
* Moves lever and pushes button to lift pressure-drive roll and withdraw cutting blades.
* Moves lever to extend pivoted metal shaft through blanks to lift and remove coupling blanks from machine.
* Inspects and measures blanks to verify conformity to specifications.
* Marks identifying information onto blanks, using stencil, paint, and brush, and stacks pipe on steam tray.
* Records production data.
Industry:Professional careers
