1. Compiles, dispenses, and files newsstories and related copy to assist editorial personnel in broadcasting newsroom: Telephones government agencies and sports facilities and monitors other stations to obtain weather, traffic, and sports information. 2. Telephones people involved in news events to obtain further information or to arrange for on-air or …
1. Manages information resources library stored in files, on tape or microfilm, or in computers for use by news and editorial staff in publishing establishments, such as newspaper and magazine publishers, and in broadcasting establishments, such as radio and television stations: Directs activities of workers engaged in clipping, classifying, cataloging, …
1. Analyzes and broadcasts news received from various sources: Examines news items of local, national, and international significance to determine selection or is assigned news items for broadcast by editorial staff. 2. Prepares or assists in preparation of script. 3. May introduce broadcasters who specialize in particular fields, such as …
1. Drives truck or automobile over prescribed route to deliver newspapers to wholesale or retail newspaper dealers, or to bus, airline, or express stations for shipment: Loads newspapers onto vehicle. 2. Reviews list of dealers, customers, or station drops for change in deliveries. 3. Drives truck or automobile over prescribed …
1. Writes news stories for publication or broadcast from written or recorded notes supplied by reporting staff, using computer or typewriter: Reviews and evaluates written or recorded notes obtained from reporting staff to isolate pertinent facts and details. 2. Verifies accuracy of questionable facts and obtains supplemental material and additional …
1. Operates computer to lay out graphic display of parts to be machined in optimum arrangement and generate control media for numerical-control drilling, routing, and cutting machines: Reviews shop orders to determine job specifications and nesting requirements. 2. Sorts shop orders into groups according to compatibility factors, such as quantity …
1. Charges illuminated sign tubing with rare gases: Attaches formed sign tubing to pumping unit through fused tubulations. 2. Removes air from tubing by means of vacuum pump. 3. Bombards tubing with high-voltage electric current to eliminate gaseous impurities. 4. Reduces vacuum in tubing to specified point, using vacuum pump …
1. Off bears rolls of nonwoven fabric from stitch-bonding machine: Observes fabric winding into rolls to detect defects. 2. Cuts defective fabric from roll, using scissors, and joins ends together with needle and thread. 3. Doffs full rolls, using chain hoist.
1. Studies nematodes that are plant parasitic, transmit diseases, attack insects, or attack soil, fresh water, or marine nematodes: Identifies and classifies nematodes and studies structure, behavior, biology, ecology, physiology, nutrition, culture, and distribution. 2. Studies reactions of plants to parasitic nematodes and associations with other plant disease agents. 3. …
1. Services and repairs plastic, neon and illuminated signs in response to trouble calls: Ascends ladder or operates hydraulic or electric hoist to examine sign and determine cause of malfunction. 2. Performs operations, such as rewiring, removing defective parts, and installing new parts, using electricians’ tools. 3. Removes sign or …
1. Casts needle or thread guide assemblies for use in knitting machines: Selects size and type of mold according to instructions. 2. Positions needles or thread guides into mold slots with fingers and closes mold preparatory to casting process. 3. Ladles molten lead into mold opening to form casting around …
1. Polishes industrial sewing and knitting needles, using buffing wheels: Picks up rack of needles, using tongs and holds needles against buffing wheels to polish needles to specification. 2. Examines needles by feel and using eye loupe to determine if polished surface meets specifications. 3. Conditions surface of buffing wheels, …
1. Replaces, aligns, and spaces needles or points in needle bar, picot bar, and welt bar of knitting machines: Secures bar in jig or vise. 2. Loosens and removes clamping plate, holding needles, or point in bar with screwdriver, and removes broken or worn needles. 3. Positions metal gasket under …
1. Positions loom needles into slots of mold and pours liquid resins into mold to cast needle bars for use in weaving on looms: Selects type and size mold according to type and size loom needles to be set. 2. Weighs out and mixes resins and hardeners to prepare casting …
1. Repairs needle board by replacing defective needles: Positions needle board on repair rack or bench. 2. Pulls out dull, broken, or bent needles with pliers. 3. Reverses board and inserts new barbed needles into drilled holes and hammers them tight. 4. May prepare new needle boards by inserting needles …
1. Tends tufting machine equipped with pattern roller and solenoids that control machine needles to tuft intricate designs: Selects pattern according to specifications and positions pattern on machine, using handtools. 2. Pulls yarn ends through machine guides, tensions, and needle eyes to thread machine. 3. Draws material under machine needles, …
1. Sets up and operates battery of machines in tandem to produce needle felt products from raw materials: Turns screws to adjust comb and stripper rolls of garnett machine to produce specified bat I. 2. Installs specified needle board into needle loom to punch together loose bats into needle felt. …
1. Sets up and operates loom with assistance of NEEDLE-LOOM-OPERATOR HELPER to produce needle felt: Selects and bolts specified needle boards to loom holders, according to work order, using wrenches. 2. Installs speed gears or turns knob to synchronize speed of feeder with action of needle board. 3. Threads bat …
1. Sets up and adjusts looms that produce needle felt: Selects specified needle boards and bolts them to holders, using wrenches. 2. Changes driving gears to adjust speed of automatic feed and punching mechanisms, using wrenches or turning knobs. 3. Threads bat through needle board, attaches bat to rewind spindle, …
1. Tends loom that produces needle felt: Places roll of felt bat into feed holder of loom. 2. Aligns bat on conveyor, threads end of bat through needle bed of loom, and attaches felt to rewind spindle. 3. Starts machine, watches feed gauge, and stops machine when specified length of …
1. Sets up and operates variety of machines to make latch and spring needles for use in manufacture of knitted or sewn goods: Selects dies, jigs, and fixtures working from blueprints. 2. Machines hook, shank, and slot in needle, grinds needle including point, and mills jack to hold spring needle …
1. Operates machine and equipment to stitch-bond synthetic fibers to scrim to produce nonwoven fabric: Turns dials on control panel to regulate conveyor speeds, feed rate of scrim and fiber stock through machine, roll pressure, and steam in rollers. 2. Adjust compression rollers following thickness specifications. 3. Starts machine and …
1. Tends machine that raises fibers on surface of cloth to give cloth soft, fluffy texture: Positions truck of folded cloth at entry end of machine or mounts roll of cloth on machine brackets. 2. Sews cloth to leader in napper with surface to be napped contacting napping cylinder. 3. …
1. Makes explanatory comments to accompany action parts of motion picture: Reads from script and speaks into microphone as film is being projected, timing comments to fit action portrayed. 2. May write script.
1. Tends calender machine that imparts luster and finish simultaneously to several strands of narrow fabrics, such as tape and ribbon: Threads ends around rollers of machine and starts strands into cans, or ties ends to ends in machine. 2. Starts machine and observes strands of fabric entering machine to …
