- Industria: Government; Labor
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabricating surgical garments, such as trusses, hosiery, knee and elbow braces, corsets, and belts. Responsibilities include:
* Assigns workers to duties, such as laying out, cutting, sewing, and assembling surgical garments.
* Trains new employees.
* Inspects garments at various stages of production to verify conformance to specifications.
* Consults with management and orthopedic specialists and reads trade journals to develop new products.
* Requisitions materials and supplies.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles prepunched aluminum fin plates and copper tubing to form cooling coils for air-conditioning units, using handtools and other equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Places fin plates on worktable and clamps into position.
* Inserts copper tubing through holes in fin plates.
* Depresses switch to activate hydraulic rams, forcing them through tubes, to expand tubes and lock fins in position.
* Joins completed assemblies, using end plates and pneumatic hammer to expand ends of tubes.
* Heats tube ends and seals joints, using solder.
* May operate press machine to punch fins and tubes required to fabricate air-conditioning coils.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who duplicates sample jewelry articles by shaping, assembling, and cutting findings for soldering and other operations, using original sample as guide.
* Repairs jewelry damaged during processing by replacing or reshaping defective parts, using handtools and machine tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who aligns hairspring stud with center of roller and roller jewel with line of center on escape wheel pallet to ensure in-beat of watch movement. Responsibilities include:
* Positions balance wheel assembly in fixture of tool, using tweezers, and engages crescent of roller with lever to prevent balance wheel from turning.
* Engages slot in hairspring collet, using plunger, and turns collet and attached hairspring until stud on outer coil of hairspring is aligned with indicator on balance wheel.
* Observes minute parts, using loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fits upright filler tubes into crossbars to form sections of metal bed ends. Responsibilities include:
* Sets crossbar in place in assembling frame.
* Sets filler tubes vertically in each hole in bar and presses tubes into bar with lever.
* Removes section from frame.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, tests, adjusts, and repairs electric, electronic, mechanical, and pneumatic instruments and systems used to indicate, record, and control generating operations in conventional or nuclear power electric generating plant. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects meters, indicators, and gauges to detect abnormal fluctuations.
* Tests accuracy of flowmeters, pressure gauges, temperature indicators, controllers, radiation counters or detectors, and other recording, indicating or controlling instruments to locate defective components in system, using test equipment, such as pressure gauges, mercury manometers, potentiometers, pulse and signal generators, oscilloscopes, transistor curve tracers, and ammeters, voltmeters, and wattmeters.
* Traces out and tests electronic solid state and vacuum tube circuitry and components to locate defective parts in analog and digital, protection, or radiation monitoring systems, using test equipment, schematics, and maintenance manuals.
* Removes defective instruments from system, decontaminates, disassembles, and cleans instruments, and replaces defective parts, using handtools.
* Reassembles instruments and replaces instruments in system, using handtools.
* Lubricates instruments and replaces defective wiring and tubing.
* Calibrates readings on instruments according to standards and adjusts phasing and aligns stages to ensure accuracy of recording and indicating function.
* Records calibrations made, parts and components used, and inventory of parts on hand.
* Prepares schematic drawings, sketches, and reports to reflect changes or alterations made in instruments, circuits, and systems.
* May be designated according to type power plant as nuclear-plant-instrument technician; steam plant instrument repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs one or more of following tasks to inspect glass and plastic lens blanks for defects. Responsibilities include:
* Removes paint and wax from blank with solvent and razor blade.
* Rinses blank in water.
* Examines surface and edges to detect defects, such as pits, scratches, and chips.
* Inspects blanks with polariscope to detect annealing defects, such as bubbles, striae, fire cracks, or seal checks.
* Marks defective blanks for rework or salvage, using crayon or pencil.
* Sorts blanks by grade and type of defect.
* Weighs lens blanks and records weight for determining shipping costs.
* May pack blanks in cartons for shipping.
* May gauge blanks.
* May assemble nonprecision optical element into mechanical housing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who refinishes watch dials, according to specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Removes original finish and dial markings, such as numerals and calibrations on faceplate, using chemical solution and buffing wheel or wire brush.
* Applies specified finish to dial, using plating solution.
* Embosses and retouches markings, using stamping equipment, paint, and brush.
* Sprays dial with lacquer to preserve finish.
* May attach numerals to faceplate with rivets.
* May apply radium to dial markings to form luminous dial.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations, not elsewhere classified, concerned with assembling and adjusting metal units or components, including mechanical assembling or adjusting not requiring overall mechanical knowledge.
* Occupations concerned with electrical assembling and adjusting are included in division 72.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, lays out, constructs, modifies, tests, and maintains laboratory test equipment and related structural assemblies used to test experimental aircraft and space vehicle parts and assemblies, using precision instruments, handtools, power tools, and shop equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Reads and interprets blueprints, engineering drawings, and sketches, or receives verbal instructions, to determine methods and sequence of operations to lay out and construct mechanical, electrical, electronic, pneumatic, or hydraulic test equipment and related structures.
* Lays out and fabricates parts from assorted materials, such as aluminum, steel, wood, plastic, and graphite composites, using measuring instruments and shop equipment, such as saws, shears, drill presses, lathes, and routers.
* Fits, aligns, and assembles parts, equipment, specialized test devices, and structural framework to build test units, using precision measuring instruments, such as transit and level, power tools, rivets, bolts, clamps, pins, and other fasteners.
* Installs, or assists other workers in installing, test specimens in test equipment, using hoist, overhead crane, or related equipment.
* Assists engineers in operating test equipment to obtain research data on performance of experimental parts and assemblies under varying operational conditions.
* Diagnoses test equipment malfunctions and services and repairs equipment as required.
* May repair test specimens damaged during testing to prepare item for retesting.
* May specialize in constructing mechanical, electrical, electronic, pneumatic, hydraulic, or structural test equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
