Job Descriptions

Lithograph-Press Operator, Tinware Job

1. Sets up and operates lithograph press to print descriptive material and designs on tinplate: Installs printing plates on machine rolls, using handtools and gauges. 2. Adjusts feed guides, back and side gauges, and rollers with handtools. 3. Mixes colors of paint according to formula and fills paint fountain. 4. …





Livestock-Yard Attendant Job

1. Performs any combination of the following tasks to bed, feed, water, load, weigh, mark, and segregate livestock: Feeds grains, hay, and prepared feed and waters livestock according to schedule. 2. Opens gates and drives livestock to scales, pens, trucks, railcars, and holding and slaughtering areas according to instructions, using …

Lithographic Platemaker Job

1. Exposes sensitized metal plate to positive or negative film, using vacuum frame, to produce offset lithographic printing plates: Punches holes in light-sensitive plate with register punch and inserts register pins in holes to prepare plate for contact with positive or negative film. 2. Places plate on bed of vacuum …

Liquor-Bridge-Operator Helper Job

1. Routes flow of wash water from char filter as directed by LIQUOR-BRIDGE OPERATOR: Prepares filter-record board, showing filters to be filled with liquor. 2. Ties clean pockets on filter discharge nipple to prevent splashing in weir boxes. 3. Changes weir boxes to divert flow of sweetwater or waste water …

Liquor-Grinding-Mill Operator Job

1. Tends one or more grinding mills that grind nibs or preground nibs of cocoa bean paste to obtain liquid chocolate of specified consistency: Starts machine and opens slide gate of hopper to release nibs, or turns valve to permit paste to flow through grinding stones. 2. Observes ammeter on …

Lithographed-Plate Inspector Job

1. Inspects lithographed tinplate for defects, such as ink smears, air bubbles, crooked edges, or imperfect placement of designs. 2. Segregates imperfect sheets and stacks them for further processing.

Liquor Blender Job

1. Controls equipment to regauge, filter, rectify, blend, and verify proof of whiskeys and other distilled liquors, preparatory to bottling: Pumps specified number of gallons of whiskey and deionized water into regauging tanks and agitates mixture with compressed air to reduce proof of barreled whiskey. 2. Measures temperature, using thermometer, …

Liquor Inspector Job

1. Examines filled bottles of distilled liquor to detect imperfections or breaks in glass or foreign particles within bottle: Removes bottle from conveyor line, places it in front of strong light, and examines it to detect imperfections in glass or foreign particles within bottle. 2. Informs CONTAINER WASHER, MACHINE to …

Liquor-Bridge Operator Job

1. Tends equipment to regulate flow of liquor from char filters to receiving tanks, as scheduled: Opens valves and starts pumps to maintain flow of liquor into specified storage tank. 2. Places weir box under outlet pipe from filter with flow box outlet over gutter leading to tank inlet. 3. …

Liquid-Fertilizer Servicer Job

1. Drives truck to deliver liquid fertilizer to field location and pumps fertilizer into tractor-drawn applicator tank: Drives truck, containing supply tank filled with fertilizer, to area to be fertilized. 2. Couples hose from supply tank to feeder tank mounted on tractor. 3. Opens valves on feed pipes to synchronize …

Liquid-Sugar Fortifier Job

1. Tends mixing tanks to fortify sugar liquid extracted from beets with concentrated sugar liquids to obtain standard sugar liquor: Starts pumps and mixing tank agitators and opens valves to fill mixing tank with thin sugar juice and concentrated sugar liquid. 2. Tests density of sugar liquor, using hydrometer. 3. …

Liquid-Sugar Melter Job

1. Controls equipment to blend granulated sugar and water to produce liquid sucrose of specified concentration: Reads job order to ascertain type and amount of liquid sucrose specified. 2. Opens water and steam valves to fill tank and heat water to specified temperature. 3. Reads chart to ascertain amount of …

Liquefaction-And-Regasification-Plant Operator Job

1. Controls operation of compressors, scrubbers, evaporators, and refrigeration equipment to liquefy and regasify natural gas: Turns valves to admit flow of natural gas through scrubbers that remove harmful gases and water and starts compressors and refrigeration units that liquefy and transfer gas to storage tanks. 2. Starts pumps and …

Liquefaction-Plant Operator Job

1. Controls equipment to liquefy and compress chlorine gas: Ascertains demand and disposition of product and equipment malfunctioning from logsheet. 2. Adjusts equipment to control temperature, pressure, vacuum, level, and flow rate in refrigerating system and compressors to maintain prescribed flow of gas. 3. Calculates ratio of chlorine to hydrogen, …

Linter-Saw Sharpener Job

1. Operates machine to sharpen cylinders of circular saws used in linter machines: Removes saw cylinders from linter machine and mounts cylinder in feeding head of sharpening machine. 2. Examines saw blades to determine amount of cut necessary to sharpen them. 3. Turns handwheels to set cutting control to specified …

Lip Cutter And Scorer Job

1. Tends machine that stamps shoe size and cuts or creases shoe insoles: Installs specified cutting or creasing blade in machine head, using handtools. 2. Turns knob and pushes or pulls slide in groove in machine bed to select shoe size stamp. 3. Positions insole, grain side down, against guide …

Lip-Of-Shank Cutter Job

1. Tends machine that cuts lip of shank on insole of shoe to improve flexibility: Adjusts screw to set gauge for size of cut determined on basis of size of insole. 2. Sets insole, inner side up, on machine bed with lip of shank against gauge stop. 3. Depresses lever …

Linter Tender Job

1. Tends battery of linter machines that remove linters before seed is crushed and pressed to extract oil: Starts flow of seed into machine. 2. Observes and feels seeds that flow from machine to ensure removal of linters. 3. Turns thumbscrews to regulate pressure of seed against saws. 4. Removes …

Linotype Operator Job

1. Operates machine to cast complete lines of type from type metal and deposit them in galley in composed form for printing: Starts type-casting mechanism and adjusts marginal stops and gauge to regulate length and thickness of lines to be cast. 2. Reads copy and presses keys of keyboard to …

Linseed-Oil Refiner Job

1. Operates equipment that refines raw linseed oil for use in manufacture of paint, lacquers, white lead paste, and high-speed printing ink: Starts pump to transfer raw linseed oil from storage tank into refining tank, and starts agitator paddles. 2. Opens valve to drain settled tar and foreign matter from …

Linseed-Oil-Press Tender Job

1. Tends equipment that grinds, cooks, and presses flaxseed to make meal cakes for animal feed, and to obtain oil for use in making products, such as soap, paint, and varnish: Dumps flaxseed into grinding mill and starts mill to grind flaxseed into meal. 2. Empties ground meal into tempering …

Link-And-Link-Knitting-Machine Operator Job

1. Sets up and operates battery of automatic, link-type knitting machines to knit garments of specified pattern and design: Places chains that control operation of machine on machine sprockets. 2. Places cones of yarn on machine spindles and threads end of yarn through machine guides, tension devices, and needle eyes. …

Linker Job

1. Attaches links, trimmings, and findings to bracelets, necklaces, and pendant chains, using pointed pliers: Grips link with pliers, or positions link in slot of linking ring. 2. Twists link joint open with pliers. 3. Slides finding, link, or trimming into open link and clinches link joint to close it. …