- Industria: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who lays out, fabricates, assembles, and repairs jigs, fixtures, forms, templates, and related tooling used in manufacturing aircraft parts and assemblies, following blueprints, sketches, and specifications, using handtools, power tools, machines, and equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews engineering information, tool design drawings, and other specifications to determine methods and sequence of operations to fabricate tools.
* Examines blueprint of part for which template, jig, fixture, or other tooling is to be built.
* Calculates unspecified dimensions, and lays out design on assorted materials to establish and coordinate reference points and tooling holes, using measuring instruments, such as dividers and straightedges.
* Sets up and operates variety of machines and shop equipment to cut, shape, and finish materials to specified dimensions.
* Fits, aligns, and assembles tooling components, and measures tooling assembly for conformance to specifications, using precision measuring and checking instruments.
* Joins assembly components, using bolts, pins, clamps, screws, rivets, or other method.
* Repairs or reworks tools.
* May draw sketches and prepare detailed instructions for fabricating or machining to be performed by other workers.
* May specialize in building specific type tool and be designated form block maker; jig and fixture builder; machine tool fixture builder; wood-tool maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks involved in assembling knife handles and handles for hollowware, such as creamers and sugar bowls. Responsibilities include:
* Holds halves of handles against electrodes on spot-welding machine to tack-weld them together.
* Places handles on rack hooks and dips them in tank of flux.
* Places knife handle halves in assembly press to fit halves together onto metal holding frame preparatory to soldering.
* Inserts premeasured amount of solder in hollow handle.
* Loads handles on screen conveyor that carries them through furnace.
* Positions soldered handles in fixture of milling machine or belt grinder to face mouth of handles.
* Positions handle in fixture and depresses pedal that submerges handles into water tank and forces compressed air into fixture.
* Observes handles to detect air bubbles indicating faulty soldering.
* Brushes flux on inside of handles and sprinkles them with powdered solder, using reed scoop.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fits and secures multifocal lens parts together preparatory to fusing, utilizing adhesive compound or asbestos tape. Responsibilities include:
* Dips multifocal button in cleaning solution and wipes dry.
* Brushes button and countersink blank to remove dust and lint.
* Positions button on polished surface of countersink blank.
* Performs test to detect presence of foreign matter between button and countersink blank, using instrument that indicates foreign matter when pressure is applied to outside edge of button.
* Recleans surfaces and performs test until instrument indicates lens parts are free of foreign matter.
* Places spring clamp on blank to hold button in position.
* Inserts metal peg between button and blank to allow air to escape during fusing, using tweezers.
* Applies cement to surface contact points around edge of button, using needle applicator, or wraps asbestos tape around button and countersink blank assembly to hold button in place.
* Removes spring clip and metal peg after cement is set.
* Places assembled unit in tray for transfer to fusing room.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates and installs wire-mesh screening in housings of filters used for swimming pools and in motors of jet aircraft, motor boats, and automobiles, following blueprints or sketches, using handtools, power tools, and metalworking tools. Responsibilities include:
* Cuts copper or stainless steel wire-mesh screening sections according to dimensional specifications, using hand shears, scissors, or power shears.
* Joins sections of screening, using spot welding or riveting machines.
* Solders seams of screen with soldering iron or silver solder and acetylene torch.
* Applies silver solder and flux to screening crosspieces, and places screening in gas-fired furnace to melt solder, using tongs.
* Fits screening into housing of filter and solders screening in place.
* May fabricate and install wire-mesh screening in housing of experimental model fitters and be designated experimental fabricator-and-installer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sharpens shears, scissors, hair clippers, surgical instruments, cleavers, and other fine-edged cutting tools, using whetstone and grinding and polishing wheels. Responsibilities include:
* Holds cutting edge of tool against rotating wheel or clamps tool in holder or carriage to steady it during sharpening process.
* Sharpens surgical instruments and razors, using fine-grained grinding wheels, and hones them on whetstone.
* May sharpen handsaws.
* May brush heated mixture of glue and grit onto worn grinding wheels to rebuild them.
* May specialize in sharpening barbers' tools and be designated barber-tool sharpener.
* May specialize in sharpening shears and scissors and be designated scissors grinder.
* May specialize in sharpening tools and implements in homes and business establishments and be designated grinder iii.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates sample jewelry articles, according to drawings or instructions. Responsibilities include:
* Cuts and shapes metal into findings, using metal cutting and carving tools.
* Arranges metal findings into specified design, softens findings by heating with gas torch, and shapes findings, using hammer and die.
* Solders pieces together, and smooths rough surfaces, using wooden mallet, files, or polishing wheel.
* Attaches decorative trimmings, such as wax flowers, enamel motifs, and stones.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles and trues balance and hairspring assemblies used in marine chronometers, using truing ii calipers and watchmaker's tools. Responsibilities include:
* Attaches hairspring to collet, using watchmaker's tools.
* Positions hairspring and collet assembly in truing calipers and bends hairspring to correct deficient truing, using tweezers.
* Attaches stud to hairspring and screws balance staff into balance wheel.
* Trues balance wheel, using truing calipers.
* Fastens balance screws, weights, and timing screws in balance wheel, using screwdriver.
* Inserts impulse and unlocking rollers in assembly.
* Poises balance wheel, using truing calipers.
* Connects hairspring and collet to balance wheel assembly, using watchmaker's tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates equipment and uses handtools to prepare metal jewelry findings for further processing, using handtools and machine tools. Responsibilities include:
* Shapes, cuts, and assembles findings, using pliers, shears, arbors, mallets, files, or foot press.
* Drills holes in findings, using small drill.
* Cuts off excess metal or makes slots in findings, using bench lathe.
* Polishes findings on powered abrasive disk or emery wheel.
* Softens findings by heating them in furnace to prepare them for soft soldering or shaping.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends polishing machine that smooths and imparts specified finish to pivot (staff) ends of pinions and arbors. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls spindle handle to insert and position pinion in holder of workpiece.
* Depresses pedal to start felt-wheel lap rotating across pivot end to polish ends.
* Charges wheel with lime stick as needed.
* Inspects ends to detect defects, such as burrs and rough surfaces, using loupe.
* Performs minor adjustments to machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of instrument technicians engaged in repairing, adjusting, and calibrating meters, gauges, and remote-control equipment of steam-generating plant. Responsibilities include:
* Trains workers in repair of instruments.
* Develops standard methods and procedures for servicing, repairing, and calibrating instruments and control equipment, applying knowledge of repair procedures, using manufacturers maintenance and repair manuals.
* Sets up instruments to conduct efficiency and performance tests, performs necessary calculations to determine performance of instruments, and records data for use in future repairs.
* Submits requisitions for parts and test equipment.
* May assist workers in repair of instruments.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
