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A professional who fabricates artificial glass eyes for humans according to physician's prescription or customer specifications, applying knowledge of glass blowing and fabricating techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Holds and turns glass tube over gas burner to soften glass to viscous state.
* Blows into tube to form globe.
* Superimposes glass of required color on top surface of bulb to form iris.
* Fuses black glass in center of iris to simulate pupil and fuses clear glass over iris to form cornea.
* Positions and fuses red glass threads on globe to produce veins of eyeball.
* Fits artificial glass eyes to patients and makes adjustments for cosmetic correction.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fills thermostat bellows with gas or liquid to charge bellows, using vacuum tank or cabinet, crimping equipment, brazing iron, and solder seal equipment, by either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Inserts capillary tube of bellows into charging manifold of cabinet and closes cabinet windows to seal cabinet.
* Manipulates controls of cabinet to purge capillary tubes of air and fill tubes with gas.
* Observes gauges to verify that internal temperature of cabinet meets specifications, and turns valve to maintain specified gas pressure in bellows.
* (2) Positions bellows assemblies into vacuum tank with bulb end down.
* Closes tank lids, tightens lugs to seal tank, and opens valves to create vacuum in tank.
* Turns valve on vacuum tank and connection line between vacuum tank and filling tank to draw liquid into tank and force liquid into bellows.
* Removes bellows from tank or cabinet and crimps bulb end of capillary tube to seal in gas or liquid fill, using crimping equipment.
* Brazes crimped end of tube, using brazing iron or solder seal equipment.
* Submerges portion of capillary tube in water, when filling tube with combination of liquid and gas, to partially condense gas.
* Places filled bellows in tray or storage boxes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects surfaces of sheet metal articles, such as refrigerator and freezer cabinets, or automobile bodies for burrs, dings, scratches, laminated metal, or other surface defects prior to painting or porcelainizing. Responsibilities include:
* Rubs gloved hand over surfaces and examines workpiece.
* Marks defects for repair, using knowledge of acceptable metal finish standards and specifications.
* Records recurring defects on inspection report and submits report to quality control department for action.
* Records and submits daily inspection report.
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A professional who prepares lists of personal property owned by householders and merchants in assigned area to facilitate tax assessment, showing number and estimated value of taxable items designated in regulations.
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A professional who commands barge to transport passengers on inland waterways, such as estuaries, lakes, bays, sounds, and rivers. Responsibilities include:
* Sets course of barge, using navigational aids, such as charts, area plotting sheets, compass, and sextant.
* Steers or orders crew worker at helm to steer barge and navigates barge to avoid reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards to shipping, utilizing aids, such as lights, lighthouses, and buoys.
* Determines geographical position of barge, using loran and azimuths of celestial bodies.
* Inspects barge to ensure that passengers and crew observe regulations pertaining to safe and efficient operation of barge.
* Relinquishes command of barge to pilot, ship to guide barge through hazardous waters.
* Maintains barge's log.
* Must be licensed by U.S.
* Coast Guard for steam or motor barge according to waters navigated and tonnage of barge.
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 operates machine to trim edges and slits rolls of coated fabric or plastic sheeting to specified widths for use as wall and shelf covering. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts knives to cut through pattern (design) on material at exact points so patterns will match in register when butted together.
* Observes operation to correct deviation of cut from point.
* May be designated according to material cut as coated fabric cutter; plastic-sheeting cutter.
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A professional who operates machine to slit continuous lengths of material, such as cardboard, felt, metallic foil, paper, plastic, rubberized sheeting, or textile fabrics, into strips of specified width. Responsibilities include:
* Spaces rotary blades on machine shaft, according to width specified for strips, and turns setscrew to secure blades in position, using allen wrench.
* Mounts roll or bolt of material on machine supports and threads material over tension bar, between feed rollers, and under rotary blades.
* Laps ends of slit material around takeup tubes i.
* Starts machine and observes flow of material through machine to detect irregular cutting and winding.
* Moves levers to stop, start, and regulate speed of machine and to align material with rotary blades.
* Disengages winding shaft and removes narrow rolls of material.
* Stacks material on shelves according to width of material.
* When slitting aluminum foil into widths, is designated aluminum-foil-spooling-machine operator.
* When slitting embroidered cloth into strips for use as decorative trimming, is designated machine straight cutter.
* May be designated according to material or product cut as binding cutter; cuff slitter; electric-tape slitter; facing slitter; paper slitter; tape cutter.
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A professional who inspects unfinished metal articles of furniture for defects in metal or poor work. Responsibilities include:
* Marks rejected piece with chalk or crayon and returns it to proper department for repairs.
* Observes and feels welds and bent corners for burrs.
* Removes burrs, using file or emery paper.
* May inspect assembled electric hospital beds to certify conformity to production standards.
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