- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who selects perfect wrappers from books (halved leaves, bundled after stripping) and sorts wrappers according to size and color. Respnsibilities include:
* Unties book and separates half leaves.
* Inspects wrapper leaves for holes or tears and discards imperfect leaves.
* Piles wrappers in stacks according to size and color.
* Wipes water-moistened sponge over top leaves of stack to prevent drying.
* Packs wrappers of like size and color into bundles and places bundles into containers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mounts tobacco leaf and replenishes glue supply in plug-overwrap machine and assists plug-overwrap-machine tender to tend machine that wraps lumps of chewing tobacco in homogenized leaf: Mounts roll of homogenized tobacco leaf on overwrap machine and guides end of roll between machine rollers and under cutter.
* Pours glue into machine glue container to replenish supply reservoir.
* Pushes wire through hole of glue container to assure free flow of glue.
* Observes wrapping operation and removes defectively wrapped lumps from machine discharge conveyor.
* Wets down belts of machine, using rag, to prevent lumps from sticking to belt.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines, weighs, and measures sheets and strips of unwrapped, finished chewing gum to ensure conformity to specifications and standards. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines trays of rolled and scored gum to verify that finished gum is free of caked sugar, indentations, and foreign matter.
* Inspects gum surface for uniformity of sugar coating and for prescribed scoring and trimming.
* Weighs and measures thickness and length of gum strips, using scale, micrometer, and length gauge.
* Notifies supervisory personnel of deviations from prescribed standards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks concerned with fresh packing, canning, freezing, or smoking shellfish. Respnsibilities include:
* Transports shellfish, shellfish meats, cans, or cases to work area manually, or using wheeled hopper, handtruck, or power hoist.
* Loads conveyors, hoppers, or handtrucks with product, cans, or cases.
* Spreads shellfish on conveyor, drenches them with water, and removes foreign matter.
* Weighs shellfish or shellfish meat, using scales.
* Records weight of product on standard form.
* Sorts shellfish according to size, and trims off unusable portions, using knife or scissors.
* Packs shellfish meat in jars, cans, or boxes, and packs containers in crushed ice to fresh pack.
* Cleans conveyors, machines, and work areas, using high pressure hose spray.
* May feed cans and lids into lidding machine.
* May be designated according to work performed as Shellfish Checker; Shellfish Packer; Shellfish Sorter; Shellfish Weigher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in blending and mixing materials used to make coating for paper and related products. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production order to determine type and quantity of coating needed.
* Plans mixing sequence and orders raw materials from stockroom.
* Assigns job duties to workers and supervises weighing and mixing of materials.
* Tests each batch of coating for specific gravity, consistency, and color.
* Directs routing of coating mix to paper machines or storage tanks.
* Keeps daily production records.
* Instructs new workers in use of machinery and safety procedures.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in beating and refining pulp to prepare furnish for processing into paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Calculates volume or weight of ingredients, such as pulp, fillers, size, alum, and dyes, using formulas and laboratory analyses of ingredient concentrations.
* Orders charging of beater vats with ingredients, beater roll adjustment, and time of beating.
* Examines pulp samples and reviews laboratory reports to determine when beating process is completed.
* Compares sample of paper produced with specifications or standard sample and orders changes in beating procedure to produce paper to specified standards.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in beating and refining pulp to prepare furnish for processing into paper. Respnsibilities include:
* Calculates volume or weight of ingredients, such as pulp, fillers, size, alum, and dyes, using formulas and laboratory analyses of ingredient concentrations.
* Orders charging of beater vats with ingredients, beater roll adjustment, and time of beating.
* Examines pulp samples and reviews laboratory reports to determine when beating process is completed.
* Compares sample of paper produced with specifications or standard sample and orders changes in beating procedure to produce paper to specified standards.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in debarking, sawing, cleaning, and chipping logs to make wood chips for use as pulp. Respnsibilities include:
* Schedules production of chips according to quantity and species of wood required by digesters.
* Plans routing of wood through mill according to species of wood.
* Inspects chips and adjusts cutter knives to ensure chips are cut to specified standards.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in grinding logs and wood blocks into pulp. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs workers in feeding and adjusting machines to obtain pulp of specified consistency.
* Observes grinders, examines pulp for length and thickness of fiber, and reads laboratory reports on pulp consistency to determine need for sharpening grindstone or machine adjustment.
* Installs sharpening burr in stone-dressing lathe, using wrench.
* Moves controls to feed burr against revolving stone to dress and sharpen stone.
* Replaces worn stone, using hoist and handtools.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops formulas for paper-coloring dye and prepares directions for mixing dye with pulp to produce colored paper to specifications or customer's sample. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines composition of color sample, using spectrophotometer.
* Mixes pulp with water, size, filler, and other ingredients to make sample furnish of type and quality of paper specified.
* Weighs and mixes pigments to prepare dye, and mixes dye with furnish.
* Pours furnish on screen to make handsheet sample.
* Compares color of handsheet with color sample, visually or with spectrophotometer.
* Calculates weights and proportions of pigments and other materials required to make production batch of dye and prepares formulas and mixing directions for coating-mixer tender.
* Prepares directions for beater engineer for mixing dye with furnish.
* Prepares spectrophotometer charts on dye materials.
* Observes procedures of production staff in mixing dye with furnish and reviews laboratory reports to investigate causes of substandard colored paper.
* Consults with and advises production staff regarding technical problems in mixing colors and making colored paper to improve formulas and improve production methods.
Industry:Professional careers
