- Industria: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends semiautomatic turning lathe that bevels and polishes balance wheel screwheads. Responsibilities include:
* Places screw, using tweezers, into threaded chuck and depresses pedal to turn screw firmly into chuck.
* Turns, bevels, and polishes screwhead by manually feeding diamond tool against rotating head until automatic stop is reached.
* Depresses pedal to reverse direction of rotating chuck and to remove finished screw.
* Observes parts, using loupe and tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates, assembles, and repairs photographic equipment except cameras, using handtools and power tools. Responsibilities include:
* Examines equipment, such as photograph printers, print washers, driers and straighteners, and mounting presses.
* Replaces defective wood and metal parts and makes minor repairs, such as cleaning and tightening connections, soldering and welding broken metal parts, and bending and installing piping.
* Lays out framework dimensions on channel and angle stock, using tape measure, square, and scribe and cuts and grinds stock to dimensional specifications to fabricate equipment parts, using power saws, sanders, grinders, and files.
* Assembles frames and installs parts according to blueprint specifications, using handtools, such as drills, wrenches, reamers, and hole punches.
* Installs electrical wiring, following blueprints.
* Requisitions parts and materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to fabricate radio-frequency cauterizing surgical forceps, according to written instructions. Responsibilities include:
* Cuts and strips coaxial wire and solders wire ends to plug terminals and forceps contacts.
* Applies bonding agent to metal surfaces requiring plastic insulation coating, using brush.
* Places plug terminals into mold, bolts mold together, and clamps mold in vise.
* Injects liquid plastic into mold, using hand-operated pressure gun.
* Dips forceps into liquid plastic and hangs forceps on stand to drain.
* Places plug molds and dipped forceps into oven for specified time to cure plastic insulation.
* Inspects plastic insulation for bubbles and uniformity of thickness.
* Tests cured plugs and forceps for continuity, using ohmmeter.
* Trims plastic flash from plugs and forceps, using knife.
* Plugs forceps into radio-frequency generator and passes forceps along metal grounding plate to test for insulation leaks indicated by sparking.
* Applies electroplating solution onto contact points of forceps, using battery-powered plating paddle.
* Fabricates parts, such as plug pins, insulating collars, and fittings for assembly, using handtools, such as wire brush, pliers, drill press, and jeweler's lathe.
* Weighs and mixes ingredients for plastic compound.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles hydraulic chairs, such as professional, laboratory, and hospital chairs from prefabricated and finished parts. Responsibilities include:
* Assembles hydraulic-lifting and chair-revolving mechanisms and mounts them on base.
* Assembles chair frame to base and attaches seat, arm, and headrests.
* Inspects and adjusts completed unit.
* Rethreads screws, retaps holes, and removes excess paint while assembling, to facilitate work.
* May be designated according to type of chairs assembled as dental-chair assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests resiliency of springs, such as those used in screen doors, using testing device. Responsibilities include:
* Attaches weights to spring and notes deflection and recovery of spring.
* Discards defective springs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates and repairs jewelry articles, such as rings, brooches, pendants, bracelets, and lockets. Responsibilities include:
* Forms model of article from wax or metal, using carving tools.
* Places wax model in casting ring, and pours plaster into ring to form mold.
* Inserts plaster mold in furnace to melt wax.
* Casts metal model from plaster mold.
* Forms mold of sand or rubber from metal model for casting jewelry.
* Pours molten metal into mold, or operates centrifugal casting machine to cast article.
* Cuts, saws, files, and polishes article, using handtools and polishing wheel.
* Solders pieces of jewelry together, using soldering torch or iron.
* Enlarges or reduces size of rings by sawing through band, adding or removing metal, and soldering ends together.
* Repairs broken clasps, pins, rings, and other jewelry by soldering or replacing broken parts.
* Reshapes and restyles old jewelry, following designs or instructions, using handtools and machines, such as jeweler's lathe and drill.
* Smooths soldered joints and rough spots, using hand file and emery paper.
* May be designated according to metals fashioned as goldsmith; platinumsmith; silversmith i.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies special powder to both sides of plastic mold sheets to prevent gold strips from sticking to sheet, using powder and plush stick.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles barrel, setting lever, ratchet wheel, and barrel bridge to pillar plate to form barrel-bridge assembly, using watchmaker's tools, loupe, and holding fixture. Responsibilities include:
* Positions pillar plate on holding fixture and places barrel in plate recess, using tweezers and loupe.
* Screws barrel bridge with assembled crown wheel and click (pawl) in position over barrel and screws setting lever and ratchet wheel in place, using screwdriver.
* Holds ratchet wheel in position and tightens ratchet screw, using screwdriver.
* Positions clutch wheel and winding pinion in place and inserts stem through hole in pillar plate to secure assembly, using tweezers and loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to position cartridges into clips preparatory to use in small arms weapons. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts or replaces feeding and clipping units to maintain synchronized operation, using handtools and gauges.
* Lubricates moving parts of machine.
* Pushes buttons to start machine and stops it when jams occur.
* Examines workpieces removed from jams to determine location of malfunctioning unit.
* Notifies maintenance machinist for repairs.
* May give instructions to new machine operators.
Industry:Professional careers
