1. Compiles gauge readings and performs other tasks as directed by SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR in electric-generating plant: Records gauge and meter readings on switchboard and panelboards at specified intervals. 2. Opens and closes switches to regulate generation and flow of electric power. 3. Cleans and oils mechanical and electrical equipment and …
1. Operates switchboard to receive and transmit police communications: Talks to police officers reporting from callboxes and records messages on special forms. 2. Enters time of call and callbox number. 3. Telephones for ambulances or fire-fighting equipment when requested. 4. Routes messages for radio broadcast to DISPATCHER, RADIO.
1. Sets up and operates swing-type lathe to cut round and multishaped wood parts in manufacture of furniture: Examines blueprints, drawings, patterns, and specifications to ascertain size and shape of finished product. 2. Selects and installs knives on cutterheads on machine spindle arbor, using template, rule, calipers, and wrenches; or …
1. Tends machine that mixes ingredients, such as dye, oil, sand, sawdust, and water to make sweeping compound: Measures or weighs out ingredients according to formula. 2. Dumps or pours ingredients into mixer. 3. Starts agitator or tumbler and mixes ingredients for specified time. 4. Turns valve to drain mixture …
1. Tends sweep press that cuts recesses, smooths rough spots, and rounds corners on watch plates and bridges: Positions plate or bridge over protruding pins of chuck. 2. Moves controls that feed cutting head to plate or bridge. 3. May verify dimensions of specified number of parts, using precision plug …
1. Tends machine that automatically rolls, curls, and cuts sweet goods into specified size and weight preparatory to making rolls, coffee cake, and other sweet goods: Fills dispensing units of machine with such ingredients as oil, cinnamon, and sugar. 2. Adjusts valve to control sprinkling of ingredients on dough and …
1. Tends machine that grinds sweet potatoes into semifluid state to facilitate cooking process: Starts machine and turns handwheel to admit water into discharge chute of conveyor and into machine to lubricate potatoes during grinding process. 2. Starts conveyor that moves potatoes from hopper into chute feeding grinding machine. 3. …
1. Performs any combination of following tasks in constructing, installing, and servicing swimming pools at commercial and residential sites: Plots length and width of pool site, according to specifications, and marks corners of site, using stakes and sledgehammer. 2. Confers with customer to ensure that pool location and dimensions meet …
1. Cleans, adjusts, and performs minor repairs to swimming pools and auxiliary equipment: Removes leaves and other debris from surface of water, using net. 2. Cleans bottom and sides of pool, using such aids as underwater vacuum cleaner, hose, brush, detergent, acid solution, and sander. 3. Inspects and replaces loose …
1. Assembles costume jewelry, using foot press: Inserts prongs of one finding into corresponding holes of another, and shapes findings with pliers to obtain fit. 2. Positions findings under swedging tool in press. 3. Depresses pedal or moves lever to lower swedging tool that spreads and flattens prongs to combine …
1. Operates machine to bind fibers on cylindrical core to form brushes used on street sweeping machines: Mounts brush core in machine, turns crank to wind specified amount of cable on holding spool, and staples end of cable to core, using hammer. 2. Sets spool brake to maintain tension between …
1. Drives industrial vacuum cleaner through designated areas, such as factory aisles and warehouses, to collect scrap, dirt, and other refuse. 2. Empties trash collecting box or bag at end of each shift. 3. May sift refuse to recover usable materials, such as screws, metal scrap, or machine parts. 4. …
1. Inspects sample cloth swatches for weaving defects and adjusts setup of loom, using knowledge of weaving, to correct cause of defects: Examines loom to detect mistakes in setup, such as defective drawing-in, filling, and warp. 2. Compares swatch of first woven cloth with standard swatch, using pick counter and …
1. Collects cloth samples from cutting rooms and marks each lot to identify webs of cloth from which samples were cut. 2. Files and keeps inventory of swatch cards that are used to show prospective customers available fabrics. 3. Mails swatches to customers on request. 4. Checks swatch cards prepared …
1. Feeds hat sweatbands into flanging machine that turns edge of sweatband to fit contour of hat body: Inserts sweatband between rollers and against guide on machine bed. 2. Depresses pedal to start machine. 3. Feeds part into rotating rollers and into slot of guide that turns bottom edge of …
1. Tends machine that separates, or cuts to size, hat sweatbands temporarily joined together to facilitate production: When separating sweatbands, joined by wire and thread, positions joint under blade on machine table. 2. Depresses pedal to lower blade onto wire and thread, separating sweatbands. 3. When cutting sweatbands to size, …
1. Shapes sweatbands to conform to hat crowns, using heated metal blocks: Places hats on heated metal blocks, according to hat size. 2. Removes hats after specified time. 3. Places hats on racks and pushes racks to designated location for further processing.
1. Feeds strips or scraps of leather between machine rollers and circular knife that automatically cuts strips to specified length for use as hat sweatbands: Turns handwheel to adjust cutting blade(s. or roller(s. according to sweatband size specified on work order. 2. Flips switch to activate machine, positions leather against …
1. Tends battery of automatic swaging machines that form lead wire or slugs into bullets or cores for jacketed bullets: Threads lead wire from reel over takeup pulleys and through feed mechanism and between forming wheels, or fills machine hopper with cylindrical lead slugs. 2. Starts machine and observes feeding, …
1. Tends machine that shapes tubular metal stock to form points or magazines for mechanical pencils: Positions precut stock into holding device of machine and flips switch to start machine that rotates stock. 2. Flips another switch to move rotating holding device horizontally into set of forging dies to shape …
1. Sets up automatic swaging machines that press lead wire or lead slugs into bullets or into cores for jacketed bullets: Positions and aligns forming die and punch in machine. 2. Changes length and rate of punch and adjusts automatic feed and ejection mechanisms, using handtools and gauges. 3. Starts …
1. Instructs personnel in survival and rescue techniques and procedures and on how to evade, escape, and resist enemy interrogation, exploitation, and political indoctrination as prisoner of war: Demonstrates methods of constructing emergency shelter, building animal or fish traps and snares, improvising clothing and equipment, and recognizing, procuring, preparing, and …
1. Inspects, maintains, and repairs aircraft and marine survival equipment, or flight safety equipment, such as life rafts, inflatable jackets, marker buoys, flare cases, helmets, and pressure suits, using handtools.
1. Smooths and polishes sheep gut used in sutures: Fastens sheep gut in adjustable rack. 2. Adjusts rack to hold gut taut. 3. Smooths and polishes gut, using sandpaper.
1. Winds single or multiple lengths of surgical catgut onto fiber suture reel: Pulls out holding flaps on reel, inserts end of strand under one flap, and places reel on power-driven wheel. 2. Presses pedal to actuate wheel and guides strand under holding flaps as wheel spins to wind precut …
