- Industria: Government; Labor
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A professional who shapes, finishes, and assembles metal parts to fabricate lockets. Responsibilities include:
* Stamps design in metal frame with drop press.
* Cuts edges with chisel or reamer to flatten sides.
* Solders in lining and places field piece between outer and inner frame to hold picture.
* Removes rough spots with file and emery paper, and polishes with buffing wire and wire brush.
* Dips lockets in cleaning solution to remove stains and in solution of gold or other metal to color lockets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists instrument technician in repair and maintenance of metering instruments for electric-power generating equipment, such as boilers and turbines. Responsibilities include:
* Removes, dismantles, and assembles instruments, using mechanic's and electrician's handtools.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out, fabricates, and assembles full-scale master mock-ups and prototypes of experimental and production aircraft and spacecraft structures and components, according to specifications, using machines, handtools, and power tools. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out lines and contours of structures and components on metallic and nonmetallic materials, utilizing knowledge of trigonometry to determine radius angles and dimensions, according to engineering drawings, sketches, loft data, or verbal instructions.
* Sets up and operates shop equipment, such as bandsaw, lathe, planer, and drill press, to fabricate parts, such as ribs, empennage, wings, and landing gear.
* Drills, countersinks, and reams holes in parts and assemblies for bolts, screws, and other fasteners, using power tools.
* Forms frames and bases from plaster, using cutting, shaping, and finishing tools.
* Grinds, files, and sands parts to finished dimensions.
* Aligns and fits parts and assemblies, using fixtures and precision measuring instruments.
* Joins parts, using fasteners, such as bolts, screws, and clamps, or glue.
* Confers with liaison personnel to discuss development problems or to recommend modifications if mock-up cannot be fabricated or assembled as designed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who instructs workers in all operations concerned with assembly of watch movements. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts lectures on function of various parts and assemblies, and demonstrates assembly activities, such as overcoiling, putting-in-beat, truing ii, poising, colleting, staking, and vibrating. Instructs workers in handling of minute parts with loupe, microscope, and tweezers.
* May be designated according to assembly operation taught as hairspring instructor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who calibrates and repairs torque and other wrenches, using test scale and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Sets wrench indicator on end of wrench handle to maximum setting and inserts head of wrench into socket on test scale.
* Twists wrench until wrench mechanism releases and notes corresponding indication on scale.
* Adjusts wrench mechanism so that indications on scale coincide with releases of torque wrench, using allen wrench.
* Disassembles defective wrenches, examines parts, and replaces or repairs parts, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who installs, repairs, maintains, and adjusts indicating, recording, telemetering, and controlling instruments and test equipment, used to control and measure variables, such as pressure, flow, temperature, motion, force, and chemical composition, using precision instruments, and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Disassembles malfunctioning instruments or test equipment, such as bargraphs, electrical ovens, multimeters, environmental cabinets, and weatherometers, and examines and tests mechanisms and circuitry for defects.
* Replaces or repairs defective parts, using handtools.
* Reassembles instrument or test equipment, and tests assembly for conformance to specifications, using instruments, such as potentiometer, resistance bridge, manometer, and pressure gauge.
* Inspects instruments and test equipment periodically and adjusts calibration to ensure functioning within specified standards.
* May calibrate instruments or test equipment according to established standards.
* May be designated according to type of instrument repaired as aircraft instrument repairer; panel-instrument repairer; x-ray-control-equipment repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists construction-equipment mechanic in repairing, assembling, and adjusting construction equipment, such as internal combustion engines, lighting plants, pumps, air compressors, concrete and mortar mixers, concrete vibrators, generators, pneumatic tools, and portable winches.
* Disassembles and assembles equipment, using mechanic's handtools.
* Washes parts and tools with cleaning fluids, such as gasoline or naphtha.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who forms flange on open ends of glass tubes used in manufacturing laboratory and medical instruments and apparatus, using gas burner and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Rotates glass tube over gas burner to heat end of tube.
* Inserts end-opening tool into tube to flare opening and closes jaws of flange-forming tool to shape flange.
* May rotate flange over gas burner to glaze flange or to add or remove glass to obtain uniformity of finished flare.
* May trim edge of flange, using cutting tool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs iron and steel tools used by potter to form pottery and porcelain ware. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps tool to template in vise.
* Selects files for particular metal, and files edge of tools to correct contour, following template outline.
* Inspects reworked tools for adherence to specifications, using templates and angle gauges.
* May fabricate master tools and templates from rough drawings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches stud to watch hairspring preparatory to assembly to balance bridge, using studding fixture, loupe, and watchmaker's tools. Responsibilities include:
* Positions stud in recess of studding fixture, using tweezers, and broaches hole in stud, using handtool.
* Inserts end of outer hairspring coil into hole, and forces tapered brass pin through hole to wedge spring in place, using loupe and watchmaker's tools.
* Cuts off protruding ends of pin, using pliers.
Industry:Professional careers
