- Branża: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who coats hair of fur garments with moisture or glazing compound to protect against shedding and restore glossy appearance. Respnsibilities include:
* Fits garment over form and sprays glazing compound on garment with spray gun.
* Brushes, combs, or shakes garment to fluff fur.
* Allows garment to hang for specified period, or directs nozzle of compressed air line to dry fur.
* May iron fur and lining.
* May rub fur with stick to make hair fluffy.
* May tend sawdust-filled rotating drum to remove loose hairs.
* May trim garment section, using furrier's knife.
* May pull offcolored hair from fur, using tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives, marks, washes, finishes, checks, and wraps articles in laundry, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Classifies and marks incoming laundry with identifying code number, by hand or using machine.
* Tends washing machine, extractor, and tumbler to clean and dry laundry.
* Finishes laundered articles, using hand iron, pressing machine, or feeds and folds flatwork on flatwork ironing machine.
* Sorts laundry and verifies count on laundry ticket.
* May perform related tasks, such as mending torn articles, using sewing machine or by affixing adhesive patches.
* May wrap articles.
* May specialize in receiving and washing, or in finishing and checking, and be designated according to unit in which work is performed as Laundry Operator, Finishing; Laundry Operator, Wash Room.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs defective umbrellas, using handtools. Respnsibilities include:
* Replaces parts of umbrella frames, such as springs, ribs, shanks, and handles, using handtools.
* Sews umbrella cover to frame.
* May repair wheels and casters on beds, carts, and similar rolling equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that fumigates and removes foreign matter from furs. Respnsibilities include:
* Hangs furs in fumigating cabinet, pours fumigant into storage tank, and closes door.
* Turns switch to start blower that vaporizes and blows fumigant onto furs.
* Adjusts timing switch to stop fumigation process.
* Presses button to start ventilating system to exhaust vapors from cabinet, opens door, and removes furs.
* Adjusts valve on compressed air gun to regulate air pressure, according to condition or type of fur.
* Squeezes trigger of gun and directs stream of air on fur to remove dirt, insects, and loose fur.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that fumigates and removes foreign matter from furs. Respnsibilities include:
* Hangs furs in fumigating cabinet, pours fumigant into storage tank, and closes door.
* Turns switch to start blower that vaporizes and blows fumigant onto furs.
* Adjusts timing switch to stop fumigation process.
* Presses button to start ventilating system to exhaust vapors from cabinet, opens door, and removes furs.
* Adjusts valve on compressed air gun to regulate air pressure, according to condition or type of fur.
* Squeezes trigger of gun and directs stream of air on fur to remove dirt, insects, and loose fur.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends drum that tumbles fur garments in dry or liquid cleaning agents to clean fur. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects and pours liquid or drycleaning agent into drum.
* Places garments in drum and moves lever to start and stop drum rotation.
* Removes garments from drum.
* Dumps drycleaning agents from drum and repeats tumbling process or uses compressed air gun to remove cleaning agents from garment; or places garment in extractor to remove liquid cleaning agent.
* Hangs garments in heated cabinets or places in drying tumbler to dry garments.
* May glaze fur.
* May wash garment linings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that combs and polishes furs, and manually applies glazing solution to restore luster. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets thermostat to heat roller to specified temperature.
* Presses button to start machine and arranges garment on feed roller.
* Applies water or glazing solution, using hand spray gun.
* Depresses pedal to raise feed roller to grooved heated roller that polishes and straightens fur.
* Releases feed roller and rearranges garment to polish all parts.
* May iron lining and hair of garment to remove wrinkles and restore luster to fur, using hand iron.
* May polish furs only and be designated Fur-Polishing-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that combs and polishes furs, and manually applies glazing solution to restore luster. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets thermostat to heat roller to specified temperature.
* Presses button to start machine and arranges garment on feed roller.
* Applies water or glazing solution, using hand spray gun.
* Depresses pedal to raise feed roller to grooved heated roller that polishes and straightens fur.
* Releases feed roller and rearranges garment to polish all parts.
* May iron lining and hair of garment to remove wrinkles and restore luster to fur, using hand iron.
* May polish furs only and be designated Fur-Polishing-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends rug conveyor or electric powered hoist that lifts and carries rugs to drying room, using either of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Pulls rug ejected from washing and wringing machines into drying room.
* Feeds end of rug to be sized through sizing rolls to distribute sizing compound evenly over back of rug.
* Fastens end of rug to pins attached to poles and pushes button to hoist and suspend rugs in drying room.
* (2) Feeds end of rug to be sized through sizing rolls and fastens ends to pin on rug poles.
* Pushes button to operate conveyor which hoists and transports rug through drying room.
* May adjust thermostat of heaters circulating hot air through drying room.
* May spray sizing compound on back of rugs with spray gun.
* May remove dried rugs from poles and wrap or tie for delivery to customer.
* May tend wrapping machine which wraps rug.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that automatically folds shirts. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions shirt on bed of machine, places button strip and collar of shirt in clamps on machine bed, and closes clamps by hand.
* Pushes button to lower folding blade onto shirt and actuates folding bar and plates of machine to fold body and arms of shirt around folding blade.
* Depresses pedal to retract folding blade and plates and open heated collar-shaping clamp.
* Inserts cardboard band under collar to maintain shape.
* May place cardboard on shirt prior to folding to strengthen folded package.
* May place paper bands around folded shirts and pack shirts in bags.
* May separate and stack shirts according to customers' markings.
* May insert paper cuff links in dress shirts.
Industry:Professional careers
