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U.S. Department of Labor
Industria: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who constructs full-scale experimental and production trailer mockups according to specifications, using woodworking and metalworking machines and handtools. Responsibilities include: * Lays out lines and contours of trailer structures and components on metal, wood, and plastic materials with crayon and scriber, according to engineering drawings, sketches, lofting data, or verbal instructions, using calipers, scales, gauges, and trigonometry to define radius angles and dimensions. * Sets up and operates shop equipment, such as bandsaw, lathe, planer, jointer, and drill press, to shape parts, according to blueprints. * Drills, countersinks, and reams holes in parts and assemblies for bolts and screws, using portable power tools. * Aligns and fits parts and assemblies, using transit and sight level. * Joins parts together, using bolts, screws, clamps, or glue. * Lays out, fits, drills, screws, bolts, and rivets together metal sheeting, upright frames, bottom and top bars, and angle clips, using pneumatic handtools and templates. * Marks and cuts openings in sheeting, installs support framing around openings, and installs doors, hinges and catches. * Fits, drills, bolts, and rivets metal frame pots, headers, and buck plates to make body section, verifying tolerances with tri-square and rule. * Installs insulating material and electrical wiring. * Connects water supply and installs fixtures and appliances. * Completes model by installing molding, hardware, and accessories.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles, inspects, and adjusts watch hairspring and balance assemblies, using watchmaker's tools. Responsibilities include: * Attaches hairspring to collet and stud, and assembles parts of hairspring and balance, using punch, staking tool, tweezers, and other watchmaker's tools. * Overcoils spring, and trues spring. * Poises balance wheel. * Locates vibrating point. * Inspects and adjusts hairspring and balance assembly.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who installs, repairs, rebuilds, and services mechanical or electrical locking devices, using handtools and special equipment. Responsibilities include: * Disassembles locks, such as padlocks, safe locks, and door locks, and repairs or replaces worn tumblers, springs, and other parts. * Inserts new or repaired tumblers into lock to change combination. * Cuts new or duplicate keys, using keycutting machine. * Moves lockpick in cylinder to open door locks without keys. * Opens safe locks by drilling. * May keep records of company locks and keys.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes springs from conveyor belt and inspects them for defects, such as missing or bent leaves, clips, and bushings, and excessive spacing between leaves. Responsibilities include: * Measures spring dimensions to verify specifications, using rule and micrometer. * Marks spring to indicate defects, using crayon. * Notifies supervisor when springs indicate specified types and quantity of defects that require rework. * Separates and stacks defective and acceptable springs. * Straightens defective springs, using hammer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with grinding, polishing, and coating optical lenses, reflectors, filters, and prisms and ophthalmic eyeglass, sunglass, and contact lenses.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs lawnmower cutting blades and sorts them into stacks according to weight to ensure that blades of approximately equal weight will be mounted on each mower.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs tasks as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out and cuts lettering and designs on surfaces of hard metal for hobs, dies, and molds or plates used to imprint designs on paper, metal, plastic, or porcelain products, following sketches and blueprints, and using engraving tools. Responsibilities include: * Computes dimensions of lettering and design, and marks or scribes layout lines on workpiece, using drawing tools, such as straightedge, compass, and scriber. * Positions workpiece in vise and cuts designs in surface of workpiece or trims precut designs, using gravers, punches, files, hammer, and shaped chisels. * Sharpens and forms cutting edge of gravers on cutter grinder. * May sketch original design for customer. * May enlarge or reduce reproduction of pattern according to size of article to be made. * May brush surface of metal with acidproof paint to prevent corrosion. * May be designated according to type of imprinting device engraved as stencil maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic machines that perform any combination of following operations to assemble shotgun shells preparatory to loading with powder and shot. Responsibilities include: * Starts machine that coils paper strip into wad and presses wad into shell body; presses molded base wad into shell body; presses metal head onto body and crimps head to form extractor flange; or presses loaded primer into head. * Observes machines for jams in hoppers and feed mechanisms and removes jammed components. * Examines assembled shells for defects, such as open seams, wad bulges, damaged mouths, and malformed or tarnished heads. * Measures head thickness and diameter, shell length, and primer depth, using fixed gauges and dial micrometer. * Weighs coiled paper base wads on grain scale to verify conformance to specifications. * May fill hoppers with components and remove filled containers of assembled shells and rejects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to recondition displacement-type gas meters and governors. Responsibilities include: * Cleans meter case, using wire brush or scraper, and places meter in grit-blast chamber to remove paint and soil. * Removes top, front, and back case panels and valve compartment panels, using soldering iron or gas-fired chamber. * Removes internal parts, including valve covers, valve connecting arms, and recording mechanisms, using soldering iron and handtools. * Cleans internal compartments and moving parts, using rags and cleaning compound. * Repairs internal partition seams, using soldering iron. * Replaces stuffing box, using handtools, and lubricates moving parts, using oil gun. * Attaches airhose to meter inlet, plugs outlet, and observes gauges for loss of pressure to test internal seams for leaks. * Solders top, front, and back case panels in place, using soldering iron. * Connects meter to water chamber fixture to submerge meter in water and observes meter to detect leaks. * Marks seams to identify leaks, using chalk. * Caps inlet and outlet of meter to prevent paint from entering system and places meter on conveyor of electrostatic spray booth. * Turns spray booth controls to paint meter. * Places painted meter in shipping container.
Industry:Professional careers
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