- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that winds metal scrap into balls for salvage. Respnsibilities include:
* Hooks end of scrap onto reel of machine, using hook or handtool.
* Starts machine that rotates reel and winds scrap into ball of specified size.
* Turns lever to eject wound ball from machine.
* Signals overhead crane operator to lower sling, and hooks ball onto sling for removal from work area.
* Ties ball with wire to prevent unraveling.
* May grade scrap according to alloy content.
* May turn reel, manually to wind scrap.
* May cut scrap metal, using power shear.
* May weigh scrap metal, using floor scale.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines, such as baling machine, centrifugal separator, and oil purifier to salvage metal parts and cutting oil. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads and moves barrels or crates of metal chips, shavings, or clippings from machining operations, using handtruck.
* Dumps metal scrap into baling machine and activates machine to compress scrap into bales.
* Binds bales of metal scrap with wire or metal strapping.
* Shovels scrap in spinner bucket.
* Clamps covers, sets timer, adjusts sump pump and oil line valves, and flips switches to start automatic cycle of centrifugal machine that spins metal scrap to separate cutting oil from scrap.
* Starts centrifugal oil purifier that filters foreign matter from used cutting oil to make oil reusable.
* Disassembles rejected devices and materials, such as thermostats, valves, conduit, and connectors, using handtools, arbor press, vises, and power hacksaw.
* Sorts parts according to type of metal or part.
* Weighs bales and barrels of scrap metal and ties identification tags on scrap.
* May oversee and demonstrate salvaging procedures to other scrap handlers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that refines silver in electrolysis tank. Respnsibilities include:
* Suspends silver anodes contained in canvas bags, between stainless-steel cathodes held on rack.
* Aligns and spaces anodes to prevent dislodging by mechanical scrapers.
* Swabs cathodes with oil to facilitate removal of deposited silver.
* Lowers rack of electrodes into tank and fills tank with silver nitrate electrolyte.
* Connects and starts wooden scrapers that scrape deposited silver from cathode.
* Scrapes remaining silver from cathode with knife and opens bottom of rack to empty silver into box.
* Removes bags containing depleted anodes and black mud.
* Examines bags for holes and broken frames and replaces defective parts.
* May mix acid and silver to prepare electrolyte solution, following standard formula.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes battery plates from discharge conveyor of automatic equipment on which twin battery grids are pasted, dried, and broken apart into single grids. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes and discards grids having defects such as bent, cracked, or unevenly pasted plates.
* Stacks specified number of finished plates on rack or dolly.
* Records number and type of rejected plates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts scrap metal and removes foreign matter preparatory to use in recasting. Respnsibilities include:
* Shovels metal scrap onto conveyor leading to magnetic drum that removes iron and steel pieces.
* Removes contaminating nonferrous metals, manually.
* May sift scrap to remove excess dirt and rust, using wire sifting tray.
* May remove inserts from defective castings, using gas torch, tongs, and pliers, and be designated Salvager, Inserts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts scrap metal and removes foreign matter preparatory to use in recasting. Respnsibilities include:
* Shovels metal scrap onto conveyor leading to magnetic drum that removes iron and steel pieces.
* Removes contaminating nonferrous metals, manually.
* May sift scrap to remove excess dirt and rust, using wire sifting tray.
* May remove inserts from defective castings, using gas torch, tongs, and pliers, and be designated Salvager, Inserts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who relines bottoms of ingot-soaking pits with coke dust to retard formation of oxide scale on hot ingots. Respnsibilities include:
* Digs out molten metal, slag scale, and cinder from bottoms of pits, using flat-pointed bar, and scrapes debris into ladle.
* Shovels coke dust into pit, using bar to level bottom surface.
* May change crane tong bits, using sledgehammer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks, usually on conveyor line, in porcelain enameling process. Respnsibilities include:
* Brushes or scrapes dry porcelain from holes and designated areas of workpiece, using powered or hand brushes and scraping tools.
* Inspects enameled workpiece and sands workpiece to remove dirt, blisters, and lumps.
* Brushes porcelain into nicks.
* Marks workpiece to indicate routing for further repair or processing.
* Removes excess enamel from dipped parts with cloth, finger, or suction hose.
* Marks workpiece with production number, unit number, or other code.
* Loads or unloads workpieces from conveyor line.
* Cleans workpiece with solvent and hangs workpiece on rack to dry preparatory to dipping in enamel.
* May immerse workpiece in porcelain enamel solution.
* May transport workpiece to work or storage areas, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks, usually on conveyor line, in porcelain enameling process. Respnsibilities include:
* Brushes or scrapes dry porcelain from holes and designated areas of workpiece, using powered or hand brushes and scraping tools.
* Inspects enameled workpiece and sands workpiece to remove dirt, blisters, and lumps.
* Brushes porcelain into nicks.
* Marks workpiece to indicate routing for further repair or processing.
* Removes excess enamel from dipped parts with cloth, finger, or suction hose.
* Marks workpiece with production number, unit number, or other code.
* Loads or unloads workpieces from conveyor line.
* Cleans workpiece with solvent and hangs workpiece on rack to dry preparatory to dipping in enamel.
* May immerse workpiece in porcelain enamel solution.
* May transport workpiece to work or storage areas, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who strings jewelry articles on wire or hangs articles on racks preparatory to further processing, such as soldering, cleaning, plating, or stripping, and carries to machine operator.
* May clean machines.
* May be designated according to specific operation performed as Stringer-Up, Soldering Machine.
Industry:Professional careers
