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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in nitrating glycerine with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin, separating, washing, and neutralizing operations, and delivering nitroglycerin to dynamite mix house. * Trains workers in operating equipment and instructs workers in 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 preparing chemical solutions and in operating purification units, reaction vessels, and driers in polymerization of raw materials, such as synthetic rubber or resin. Respnsibilities include: * Plans preparation of chemical solutions and rate of flow of materials through reaction vessels to maintain continuous flow of polymer through process. * Observes control-panel instruments to verify conformity of reaction and monomer-recovery process to specifications. * Trains workers in operation of equipment. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title. * May be designated according to activity of workers supervised as head drier operator; monomer-recovery supervisor; polymerization supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating equipment to produce anhydrous ammonia by catalytic-cracking of methane (natural) gas, compressing gas, removing carbon compounds from gas, and combining (synthesis) hydrogen and nitrogen into liquid (anhydrous) ammonia. Respnsibilities include: * Reads operating reports and tests results to evaluate processing operations and production efficiency. * Observes recording-instrument charts, meters, and gauges to verify specified temperatures, pressures, flow rates, and material ratios. * Correlates variations in instrument readings to diagnose causes of equipment malfunctions. * Moves controls to set or adjust automatic equipment to process specifications. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in mixing, curing, calcining, cooling, grinding, and screening powdered phosphate rocks in production of defluorinated phosphate (tricalcium phosphate). Respnsibilities include: * Observes meters, gauges, and recording-instrument charts to verify specified process conditions, such as flow rates of materials, process temperatures, and operating speed of calciner and feeders. * Turns dials to regulate automatic controls of various processes. * Orders changes in weight settings at vibrator-scale feeder, burner setting in calciner, and operating speeds of calciner and feeders, according to production requirements. * Inspects process and bagging equipment for malfunctions. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in making organic chemical products. Respnsibilities include: * Computes quantities of chemicals required for specific batches, following laboratory formulas. * Verifies processing of chemical products at specified checkpoints to ensure that formulas are followed, pressure and temperature specifications are within tolerance, and chemical batches are within standard limits. * Trains employees in job duties. * May test chemical batches for acidity, alkalinity, and solubility, using standard test equipment. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title. * May be designated according to process as color making supervisor; flushing supervisor; intermediates supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in producing alum liquor (aluminum sulfate) by continuous process reaction (digestion) of sulfuric acid with powdered bauxite ore. Respnsibilities include: * Requisitions bauxite ore from other company plants and schedules required delivery dates. * Reads operating reports showing temperature, specific gravity, and flow-rate readings to verify specified process conditions. * Inspects equipment for mechanical defects and malfunctions. * Trains new employees in operation of equipment. * May study technical papers to plan process improvements, and diagrams changes, using drafting instruments. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in producing boneblack (animal charcoal), bonemeal, bone flour, and grease by extracting, crushing, grinding, screening, and charring bones. Respnsibilities include: * Trains new employees in machine operation. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in converting monovinylacetylene to chlorobutadiene (chloroprene) for subsequent polymerization to neoprene rubber. * Trains new workers in operation of equipment. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in converting monovinylacetylene to chlorobutadiene (chloroprene) for subsequent polymerization to neoprene rubber. * Trains new workers in operation of equipment. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in making and dehydrating glue made from skins, splits, fleshings, and trimmings. Respnsibilities include: * Directs loading of stock into cooking vats. * Estimates amount and type of stock and specified cooking time. * Observes operation of filters, evaporators, and driers to verify maximum production at specified level of quality. * Trains new workers. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers