- Industria: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who disassembles defective auto clocks for salvage or reuse of parts, using watchmakers' tools. Responsibilities include:
* Turns screws and nuts and separates parts, such as case, lens, backplate, hands, and dial, using screwdrivers, pliers, and tweezers.
* Segregates parts in trays for reuse.
* Places scrap parts in tray for salvage.
* Removes date stamp markings from parts, using solvent and cloth.
* Places dented or bent cases and backplates on metal block and straightens or smooths defective part, using mallet.
* Records quantity and type of clocks disassembled.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fits together components of fabricated metal products, such as boxes, shells, and frames, for window sashes, doors, bicycles, and tubular furniture to prepare them for welding, brazing, or assembly. Responsibilities include:
* Positions parts into fixture or frame, examines alignment visually, or verifies alignment, using square, rule, and template.
* Files and grinds to remove burrs or alter shape.
* Straightens part by hammering or using straightening press.
* Secures part to fixture or fastens parts together, using clamps.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates duplicating machine to print typewritten or handwritten matter directly from master copy. Responsibilities include:
* Places master copy on drum of machine and blank paper in feed tray.
* Adjusts machine for speed, size of paper, and flow of process liquid to moistening pad.
* Starts machine that pulls blank sheets across moistening pad and transfers image from master copy onto copy sheet.
* May type or draw diagram to prepare original copy.
* Important variations may be indicated by trade name of machine operated.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stamps designs or lettering into metal workpieces, using hand stamps (punches) and hammer. Responsibilities include:
* Obtains specified stamp from rack and holds and hammers it to imprint workpiece.
* May use stand or fixture to position stamp or workpiece.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates grinding and polishing machines to make lenses, optical flats, and other precision optical elements for optical instruments and ophthalmic goods, such as telescopes, aerial cameras, military optical systems, and eyeglasses. Responsibilities include:
* Operates machine to rough-grind blanks of optical glass to approximate size and shape or manually positions and turns blanks against grinding wheel or lap i.
* Blocks optical element in plaster or other compound.
* Mounts blocked element in machine and operates machine to oscillate and rotate element against abrasive to fine-grind element to final size and shape.
* Periodically stops machine to inspect and measure elements for accuracy and degree of completion.
* Polishes surfaces, using lens-polishing machine.
* May cement lens elements together to obtain corrected lens assemblies.
* May mount optical elements in holders or adapters for use in instruments.
* May be designated according to type of lens ground as eyeglass-lens grinder; instrument-lens grinder; multifocal-button grinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who smooths and polishes sheep gut used in sutures. Responsibilities include:
* Fastens sheep gut in adjustable rack.
* Adjusts rack to hold gut taut.
* Smooths and polishes gut, using sandpaper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who disassembles, cleans, adjusts, repairs, and tests oil, gas, and water meters, using handtools and testing equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Connects meter to testing apparatus.
* Turns valve to permit specified quantity of oil, gas, or water to pass through meter under varying pressure to test meter for leaks and accuracy of recording.
* Disassembles meter, removing gear train and disk assembly, using handtools.
* Removes plant growth, rust, and scale from internal housing and parts, using wire brush, electric buffer, and acid.
* Repairs or replaces warped or broken disks and gears, and grinds and straightens parts to specified tolerance to fit parts to meter, using grinding machine and hydraulic press.
* Reassembles and tests meter.
* Tests large capacity meters in industrial plants to determine accuracy of operation.
* Records materials used and meters repaired.
* May install meters.
* May read meters.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mounts glass vials in level bodies (frames) or vial cases. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts vial in body or case, and holds vial in position, using specially designed holder, wood wedges, or paper.
* Mixes plaster with liquids to desired consistency.
* Levels frame or case on bench plate, or clamps it in fixture and applies plaster around enclosed vial, using handtools.
* Adjusts vial to center bubble and smooths plaster, using trowel.
* Removes excess plaster, using handtools and compressed airhose.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates wire birdcages, using handtools and drill press. Responsibilities include:
* Cuts wire to specified length, using wirecutter.
* Positions metal plate in jig, and drills holes around circumference of plate, using drill press.
* Fits ends of wires into holes in plate, and fastens upper ends of wire together to form cage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists salvager in repairing defective valves and pipefittings removed from refinery pipelines. Responsibilities include:
* Dismantles valves, using wrenches.
* Rethreads pipefittings, using pipe threader.
* Sorts fittings according to type and size and places them in bins.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
