- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends battery of machines that test or grind tires for conformance to radial balance specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts and positions tires in machine.
* Starts machine that inflates tires and activates sensory roller rotating against tire.
* Observes panel indicators to determine tires meeting specifications.
* Places defective tires on conveyor leading to automatic machine that locates and grinds excess rubber from tires.
* Drops defective tires in scrap truck and stacks balanced tires on shipping pallet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends lasting machine that presses edges of precemented uppers onto insole and shapes forepart section of shoes. Responsibilities include:
* Positions last on machine.
* Moves lever to cause machine pincers to stretch upper, and to cause wipers to press edges of upper onto insole.
* Presses machine button to release last.
* Turns handle to reverse pincer grip according to shape of right or left shoe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends lasting machine that presses edges of precemented uppers onto insole and shapes forepart section of shoes. Responsibilities include:
* Positions last on machine.
* Moves lever to cause machine pincers to stretch upper, and to cause wipers to press edges of upper onto insole.
* Presses machine button to release last.
* Turns handle to reverse pincer grip according to shape of right or left shoe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends multiple-spindle automatic screw machine that bores, turns, or threads plastic or rubber tubing stock to form barrels of pens and pencils. Responsibilities include:
* Positions and secures tools in toolholders following job order and verbal instructions, using wrenches.
* Positions and secures bar stock in chuck.
* Starts machine and engages automatic feed.
* Spot checks conformance of completed workpiece to specifications, using dial and fixed gauges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes bark (rough exterior of pearl-shell) from back of pearl button blanks, and levels back and face of blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Places blanks face-down on conveyor belt that feeds blanks between steel plate and abrasive wheel.
* Inverts blanks by hand, and repeats operation to level faces.
* May tend machine that inverts blanks automatically.
* May insert blank in holder of manually controlled machine and pull on leverage bar to force blank against abrasive wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes bark (rough exterior of pearl-shell) from back of pearl button blanks, and levels back and face of blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Places blanks face-down on conveyor belt that feeds blanks between steel plate and abrasive wheel.
* Inverts blanks by hand, and repeats operation to level faces.
* May tend machine that inverts blanks automatically.
* May insert blank in holder of manually controlled machine and pull on leverage bar to force blank against abrasive wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that cut heel blanks (rough forms) of wood, leather, or fiberboard into heels. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts blank in holding device.
* Pushes heel against revolving knife blades to shape outside of heel.
* Positions shaped heel in holding device of second machine that hollows out face of heel.
* May sharpen and insert cutting blades in machines.
* May be designated according to material grooved or turned as wooden-heel beveler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends lathe-type machine that cuts grooves (knurls) in plastic tubes and cuts tubes to size to form flashlight covers. Responsibilities include:
* Slides tubing over mandrel attached to chuck and starts machine.
* Moves cutting tool against workpiece that knurls tubing and cuts tubing into specified lengths.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cements, nails, and holds lifts to form heel or heel bases. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts and pulls leather or fiberboard lifts through cement-covered rollers of machine according to material, size, and style of heel specified on work ticket.
* Stacks cement-covered lifts against faceplate (mold) of machine.
* Places nail in holding device on ram of machine and depresses pedal to start machine that drives nail into stacked lifts and holds heel in conveyor or press until dry.
* May be designated according to type of heel built as high-heel builder; low-heel builder.
* Important variables may be indicated by trade name of machines used.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that compresses heels to give them better wearing quality. Responsibilities include:
* Feeds precut heels of leather or composition material into machine and observes operation.
* May change dies and adjust stroke of ram.
* May tend machine equipped with blades that trim and shape breast of heel during operation.
* May compress top lifts and be designated top-lift compressor.
Industry:Professional careers
