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A professional who straightens, shapes, and forms clock springs, using holding fixture and pliers.
* Winds coiled spring around peg or pin of fixture and bends and shapes spring to specifications, using needle-nosed pliers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out, fabricates, and assembles jig boards, wiring templates, and master panels used as production patterns for manufacturing control panels and wiring assemblies for aircraft and space vehicles, using handtools, power tools, precision measuring instruments, and shop equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Reads blueprints, assembly drawings, and schematics to determine arrangement and relationship of parts and equipment, reference and location points, dimensional specifications, and circuitry routings.
* Measures and marks location in mockup for installation of control panels, wiring, junction boxes, switches, and related items.
* Plans, routes, attaches, and ties wires between designated locations in mockup to form prototype wire harness.
* Transfers pattern of prototype harness to blank jig board and attaches terminal pins, guide pins, clamps, and holding devices to jig board, using handtools and power tools.
* Assembles sample wire harness, using jig board, and tests continuity of circuits, using voltmeter, ammeter, and other test equipment.
* Lays out and fabricates prototype panel boards, using precision measuring instruments, such as square, straightedge, scale, protractor, and scriber, and shop equipment, such as saw and drill press.
* Fits wire harness assembly and panel board in mockup to verify accuracy of layout and modifies layouts as required.
* Fabricates wiring template used to locate wire harnesses, terminal connections, and related parts and equipment on control panel assembly, using shop equipment.
* Installs instruments, terminal outlets, switches, junction boxes, and wire harnesses on sample control panel.
* Tests continuity and functional performance of control panel assembly, using test equipment, to verify conformance of jig board, master panel, and wiring template layouts to specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who engraves specified characters on metal blanks of articles, such as trophies, trays, badges, and plaques, according to work order. Responsibilities include:
* Positions and locks blank metal plate in holding fixture beneath rotary cutting tool.
* Selects specified lettering template and places template beneath stylus attached to machine cutting tool.
* Turns knob on machine to set reduction scale to obtain required reproduction ratio on metal plate.
* Starts machine and guides stylus over template, causing cutting tool to simultaneously duplicate characters on metal plate.
* Cleans chips from metal plate, using airhose.
* Examines engraving for quality of cut, burrs, and rough spots.
* May increase or decrease depth of cut by adjusting height of worktable.
* May wipe acid over engraving to darken or highlight inscription.
* May assemble trophies, using wood base, bolts, and wrench.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fits together mechanical parts at workbench or assembly floor to make subassemblies for internal combustion engines according to drawings or routing sheets, using handtools and power tools. Responsibilities include:
* Places basic part of assembly, such as carburetor, water pump, fuel pump, oil pump, governor, cam housing, gearcase, exhaust housing, remote control, pistons and connecting rods into holding fixture.
* Bolts, screws, or pins mechanical and electrical parts together, such as push rods, valves, rocker arms, and magnetos, using power wrenches, torque wrench, stud drivers, and hammer.
* Operates hand or power arbor press to press bushings and seals into housings or onto shafts.
* Reams tubular worm gear cage to form smooth surface for assembled worm gear, using hand reamer.
* Tests sealed units, such as relief valves, fittings, and cylinders under air or water pressure.
* Applies decals to engine to indicate operating procedure.
* May be designated according to part assembled as carburetor assembler; cylinder-head assembler; gearcase assembler; governor assembler; remote-control assembler; water-pump assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who mounts steel axe and hatchet heads on wooden handles, using power hammer. Responsibilities include:
* Starts slotted end of handle into eye of tool, using hand hammer.
* Places assembled workpiece headup under power hammer, and moves controls to lower hammer that drives tool head onto handle.
* Inserts wooden wedge in handle slot, and moves controls to hammer wedge into slot.
* May operate table saw to trim excess wood from tool eye.
* May trim end of handle, using abrasive wheel.
* May mount steel hammer heads on wooden handles manually, using chisel and hammer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates metal bands used for dental products, such as braces, inlays, crowns, and bridges. Responsibilities include:
* Examines specification sheet to determine dimensions and physical characteristics of band.
* Cuts and rolls gold ingot to specified size and thickness, using handtools.
* Melts specified amount of gold, silver, or other metal and pours molten material into molds to cast inlays, crowns, and fixed bridges, using casting equipment.
* Solders or welds metal pieces together to form band, using soldering iron.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who finishes and fits together metal small arms parts preparatory to assembly, using handtools and machine tools. Responsibilities include:
* Removes burrs and rounds sharp edges, using hammer, chisel, files, and scrapers.
* Sets up and operates drill press and speed lathe, equipped with rotary file or abrasive wheel to remove burrs, smooth interior surfaces of reamed and tapped holes, and to spot face.
* Polishes movable parts to ensure smoothness of action, using bench polishing jack.
* Calculates amount of metal to be removed from parts, using micrometer, scales, and gauges, and files excess metal from parts.
* Trial fits parts to ensure accurate fit.
* May imprint serial numbers on parts, using hammer and punch dies.
* May repair and refinish damaged parts returned by customer and be designated filer repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who returns unpaid checks from correspondent banks, branches, or individual customers to adjust and balance accounts. Responsibilities include:
* Sorts returned checks into debit and credit groups.
* Types debit and credit forms listing amount, date, name of maker, name of bank, and reason for return, in order to adjust accounts and inform customers of nonpayment, using typewriter or computer.
* Totals and balances checks received, using adding machine or calculator, and submits checks and recapitulation sheet to department head.
* Visually examines checks to determine which checks to process, setting aside checks with no account, no signature on file, or forgeries for review by law enforcement official.
* Exchanges checks received by mistake with representatives of other banks.
* Photographs items returned to customers and other banks (photographic-machine operator ).
* Files copies of forms.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who clinches wire mesh fabric to metal frames to assemble springs for cots, folding beds, and other furniture. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps frame in jig and hooks helical springs to frame bars.
* Spreads fabric and stretches springs, using hooked handtool, and links spring hooks to loops of fabric.
* Attaches hooks to secure fabric to frame, using pliers and hammer.
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
