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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in aging printed cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains workers in operation of machines and equipment.
* Requisitions supplies.
* Confers with other supervisory personnel to coordinate activities of individual departments and advise on safety and housekeeping improvements.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in washing and soaping cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Trains workers in operation of machines and equipment.
* Confers with other supervisory personnel to coordinate activities of individual departments.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in tanning hides.
* Selects and mixes ingredients, such as chrome solution, bicarbonate of soda, and water to prepare tanning solution, following formula.
* Trains 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 washing, liming, and treating skins, splits, fleshings, and trimmings used in making glue or leather. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs loading of stock into vats and wash mills.
* Estimates weight of stock to determine quantity of lime required to treat stock, and directs limer to pump specified amount into vats.
* Examines shredded stock for conformance with specification and returns rejected stock to chopper.
* Trains workers in operation of equipment.
* Requisitions lime and acids.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies color of hosiery dye lots against standard and modifies dyeing process on basis of knowledge of dyes and dyeing time. Respnsibilities include:
* Passes sample hose from each dye lot through steam to fix color.
* Compares color with master sample and approves lot if color matches standard.
* Determines dyeing time and weighs out additional dyes or reducing agents for lots not meeting specifications.
* May assist supervisor dyer to schedule dyeing of assembled dye lots and to verify color of new styles against customer's color swatch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls programmed equipment to dye yarn or cloth. Respnsibilities include:
* Mounts specified cycle-control template (program master) in timing track.
* Turns crank to align starting point on template with vacuum/electric controls, and temperature tracer with profile cut in top of program master.
* Transfers dye formula to dye weigher and verifies quantities mixed.
* Presses buttons on panelboard to begin fill-cycles in specified machines and notifies dye weigher to transfer dye and chemical solutions to machines when panelboard lights indicate yarn or cloth loading is complete and processing cycle in operation.
* Observes panelboard lights, gauges, graphs, and dials to determine progress of dyeing cycles and to detect malfunctions.
* Presses buttons and turns knobs to stop automatic cycle to obtain samples, fill or drain machines, adjust variable limits of machine water-level controls, or to resume processing cycle to include washing and stabilizing dye in yarn or cloth.
* Tests solutions for acidity or alkalinity strengths, using pH testing equipment, and records results onto formula.
* Notifies supervisory personnel of malfunctions, variations from processing standards, and completion of processing cycles.
* Records processing data onto dye formulas.
* May develop and maintain dye formulas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls and monitors programmed electronic equipment to bleach, dye, and finish cotton and synthetic sewing threads. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with operator of dye machines to obtain information needed to process customer orders, and records data, such as number of dyeing machines to be used, production order numbers, and color numbers specified for dye orders.
* Selects programmed procedures based on knowledge of dyeing processes and familiarity with affinity of dyes to specific thread types, or consults procedural manuals for data.
* Depresses keys of data-entry unit to enter required data into computer.
* Observes display screen to verify data entered, to ascertain computer response to instruction entered, and to determine compliance with procedural steps.
* Depresses keys to edit instructions when necessary and to input answers for primary or alternate steps in procedure.
* Hangs tags on dye board, during shift, to indicate steps in dyeing process for each machine.
* Confers with workers to determine reasons for delays in dyeing process, and examines dyeing machines and equipment to ascertain reason for malfunctions.
* Notifies supervisor of malfunctions, and records reasons for delays in log.
* Receives instructions from supervisor, such as alteration of dyeing temperature, omission of specific steps in dyeing process, or repetition of specific steps.
* Keys in dyeing instruction changes.
* Confers with operator on previous shift to ascertain drying steps to complete dyeing in progress.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dyes knitted socks and sample cloth, according to dye formulae, using sample dyeing equipment and steam table for verification that products conform to company specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Computes quantity of dyes required for machine of specified capacity, using desk calculator and dye formula.
* Gathers, weighs, measures, and mixes dyes and chemicals, using scales, graduated cylinders, measuring cup, and titration cylinder.
* Dyes individual socks, using steam table.
* Flips switches and turns valves and handwheel to prepare sample tub dye bath and adds specified quantities of acid and dye, to achieve required pH level and specifications for dye contrast and color intensity, to prepare sample cloth and sock to be inspected.
* Presses buttons to activate and deactivate drum of extractor to remove excess moisture from machine and dyed sample cloth.
* Submits dyed sample to supervisor for inspection.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests dyed roving or yarn to determine fastness of dye and uniformity of color. Respnsibilities include:
* Winds specified quantity of yarn or roving onto reel and binds sample skein with bleached cloth band.
* Boils test sample in detergent solution for specified length of time.
* Dries sample in humidity and temperature controlled drier.
* Winds dried sample onto sample card and compares test sample with standard sample to detect variations in color.
* Examines bleached cloth band for bleeding of dyes.
* Records test results and reports variations from standards to manager, quality control.
* Files samples according to color and type of material.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates equipment to color and soften hides. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs and mixes specified ingredients with water to prepare coloring solution.
* Pours solution into tray or drum and adds oil (softening agent).
* Pulls hide through tray until specified color is obtained or places hides in drum and starts machine to tumble hides in solution for specified time.
* Adds ingredients, such as bicarbonate of soda, formic acid, or oil to solution at specified intervals.
* May be designated according to specialty as drum leather softener.
Industry:Professional careers
