- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who operates battery of compressor machines and drying ovens to press and dry cardboard-fiber and wood-flour slurry to form filler wads for shotgun shells. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to fill compressor jackets with slurry and to heat drying ovens.
* Starts feed tank agitator, wad compressors, and conveyors.
* Observes molded wads emerging from compressor punches to detect concave tops indicating fouled punch tip.
* Unbolts punch tube and cleans accumulated slurry from tip, using compressed air or water.
* Replaces bent or broken punches, tubes, knock-off fingers, and transfer plates, using handtools.
* Weighs specified number of dried wads from each batch of slurry on grain scale, and computes quantity of water needed to produce wads of specified weight.
* Measures thickness of wads, using dial gauge, and adjusts spacing between top and bottom punches to change wad thickness, using micrometers, feeler gauges, and precision gauge blocks.
* Washes accumulation of slurry from machine.
* May operate and adjust battery of stationary pneumatic compressors that press slurry into holed wads for further compressing into base wads and be designated Base-Wad Operator-Adjuster (ordnance).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates battery of compressor machines and drying ovens to press and dry cardboard-fiber and wood-flour slurry to form filler wads for shotgun shells. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to fill compressor jackets with slurry and to heat drying ovens.
* Starts feed tank agitator, wad compressors, and conveyors.
* Observes molded wads emerging from compressor punches to detect concave tops indicating fouled punch tip.
* Unbolts punch tube and cleans accumulated slurry from tip, using compressed air or water.
* Replaces bent or broken punches, tubes, knock-off fingers, and transfer plates, using handtools.
* Weighs specified number of dried wads from each batch of slurry on grain scale, and computes quantity of water needed to produce wads of specified weight.
* Measures thickness of wads, using dial gauge, and adjusts spacing between top and bottom punches to change wad thickness, using micrometers, feeler gauges, and precision gauge blocks.
* Washes accumulation of slurry from machine.
* May operate and adjust battery of stationary pneumatic compressors that press slurry into holed wads for further compressing into base wads and be designated Base-Wad Operator-Adjuster (ordnance).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends steam-heated hydraulic press which compresses paper and cardboard to form insulation board. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions preformed cardboard and paper on bed of press.
* Starts press to lower ram, and turns steam valve to bond paper and cardboard together.
* Closes valve, raises ram, and removes finished board from press.
* May tend semiautomatic press that forms insulation panels and transfers them to trimming and painting machines, monitoring temperature and pressure gauges to maintain press conditions within plant standards.
* May measure thickness of pressed board, using micrometer, to determine conformity of product to specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cutting peeler log cores into chips, grinding chips into pulp, and pressing pulp into insulation board or hardboard. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes various processing operation and reads dials and charts to verify conformance of products to specifications.
* Inspects and tests samples of chips, mat, and hardboard for water absorption, resin and wax content, internal bond, modulus rupture, weight, and dimensions, using laboratory equipment.
* Trains and assign tasks to new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in screening, pressing, sheet-forming, and baling pulp used in making paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains workers in operation of equipment.
* Reads dirt and moisture test reports and orders adjustments made to machinery to obtain pulp of specified quality.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cooking and processing wood chips to form pulp, and in processing pulp to form hardboard or insulation board.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating papermaking machines to make cardboard, paper, and pulp sheets from pulp stock, and winding and cutting paper sheets. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs workers in installing wet and dry felts and wire-mesh belts in machine, and in threading paper through feed, press, drier, and calender rolls.
* Observes consistency of pulp and reads laboratory reports of moisture, caliber, and oil tests to verify conformation of product to quality control specifications.
* Supervises workers in requisitioning, repairing, and maintaining wire-mesh belts, wet and dry felts, and machine accessories and parts.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to machines operated by workers supervised as Fourdrinier-Paper-Machine Supervisor (paper & pulp); or according to product as Superintendent, Board Mill (paper & pulp).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cooking, bleaching, and screening pulp and in making cooking and bleaching liquors to prepare pulp for use in making paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains workers in operation of equipment.
* Reads laboratory reports and observes cooking, bleaching, screening, and liquor-making operations to verify that specified procedures are followed and that products meet specifications.
* Observes level of pulp in storage chests, and directs workers in routing pulp from bleachers to chests, to ensure that pulp of specified quantity and quality is available for delivery to papermaking machines.
* Inspects equipment, such as pumps and digester shells, for leaks and worn bearings, and schedules shutdown of equipment for maintenance and repair.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to activities of workers supervised as Supervisor, Bleach Plant (paper & pulp).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in repulping, refining, and adding colors and clays to ground woodpulp and broke. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production order to determine operating sequence, type and length of fibers to use, and specified amounts and mixture of colors and clays.
* Directs flow of materials to meet production schedules.
* Compares laboratory test results with production specifications and confers with department supervisors to ensure that pulp meets quality control standards.
* Directs training of new workers, and instructs them in safety procedures.
* Initiates promotions within department.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in repulping, refining, and adding colors and clays to ground woodpulp and broke. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production order to determine operating sequence, type and length of fibers to use, and specified amounts and mixture of colors and clays.
* Directs flow of materials to meet production schedules.
* Compares laboratory test results with production specifications and confers with department supervisors to ensure that pulp meets quality control standards.
* Directs training of new workers, and instructs them in safety procedures.
* Initiates promotions within department.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
