Archive for September, 2008
Nitroglycerin Distributor
Job Title: Nitroglycerin Distributor
Nitroglycerin Distributor Duties: Distributes nitroglycerin to processing departments of dynamite plant and prepares nitroglycerin for shipment: Signals Nitroglycerin Neutralizer (chemical) to release specified amounts of nitroglycerin to storage tanks. Tests acidity of nitroglycerin, using litmus paper. Turns valve to release sodium carbonate solution into nitroglycerin to neutralize excess acid that could […]
Highway-Maintenance Worker
Job Title: Highway-Maintenance Worker
Highway-Maintenance Worker Duties: Maintains highways, municipal and rural roads, and rights-of-way in safe condition, performing combination of following duties: Erects and repairs guardrails, highway markers, and snow fences, using handtools and nails, and power tools. Dumps, spreads, and tamps asphalt, using pneumatic tamper to patch broken or eroded pavement. Drives truck […]
Detacker
Job Title: Detacker
Detacker Duties: Tends machine that removes tacking stitches from selvages of fabric and opens fabric to full width after wet processing: Clips tacking stitches with knife and ravels out length of stitching by hand. Feeds end of fabric over beating roller and through takeoff rollers and swing-folding attachment. Laps end of raveled […]
Extruder-Operator Helper
Job Title: Extruder-Operator Helper
Extruder-Operator Helper Duties: Assists Extruder Operator (plastic prod.; plastic-synth.) in extruding thermoplastic materials to form tubes, rods, and film: Tapes end of extruded article to reel spindle and starts machine that winds material onto revolving spindle. Measures extruded article with measuring wheel and cuts it to specified length, using saw or […]
Assembler, Production
Job Title: Assembler, Production
Assembler, Production Duties: Performs repetitive bench or line assembly operations to mass-produce products, such as automobile or tractor radiators, blower wheels, refrigerators, or gas stoves: Places parts in specified relationship to each other. Bolts, clips, screws, cements, or otherwise fastens parts together by hand, or using handtools or portable power tools. […]
Logging-Tractor Operator
Job Title: Logging-Tractor Operator
Logging-Tractor Operator Duties: Drives straight or articulated tractor equipped with one or more accessories, such as bulldozer blade, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, and crane boom, to skid, load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, or clear brush. Gives or receives signals from coworkers regarding moving logs. May build or […]
Inspector, Optical Instrument
Job Title: Inspector, Optical Instrument
Inspector, Optical Instrument Duties: Inspects, cleans, adjusts and certifies precision optical measuring, sighting, aligning, and leveling instruments to ensure conformance to company, military, and governmental standards, using precision measuring instruments and handtools: Reads written and schematic specifications, handbooks, inspection manuals, and blueprints to determine inspection and certification data, such as required […]
Pattern Marker
Job Title: Pattern Marker I
Pattern Marker I Duties: Lays out outlines of frames and furniture parts on woodstock to guide machine operators, working from blueprints, job orders, or models: Studies architectural drawing or blueprint of part or full assembly to be made. Selects stock lumber of necessary size and measures and marks with rule, square, […]
Form Builder
Job Title: Form Builder
Wooden Form Builder Duties: Constructs built-in-place or prefabricated wooden forms, according to specifications, for molding concrete structures: Studies blueprints and diagrams to determine type and dimension of forms to be constructed. Saws lumber to blueprint dimensions, using handsaw or power saw, and nails lumber together to make form panels. Erects built-in-place forms […]
Precipitate Washer
Job Title: Precipitate Washer
Precipitate Washer Duties: Tends filters and related equipment to wash and filter catalytic chemicals used in manufacturing styrene and butadiene: Starts pump to force water into and out of tanks containing precipitate. Titrates sample of wash water to determine when solution is neutralized. Pumps precipitate into slurry tank and wash water to […]