- Industria: Government; Labor
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A professional who services continuous-roll towel cabinets in rest rooms of industrial and commercial establishments. Responsibilities include:
* Disassembles cabinet, using handtools, to determine cause of failure reported by towel-service company customer.
* Repairs or replaces components, such as springs and release mechanism, at scene or returns cabinet to repair shop for more extensive overhaul.
* May repair or replace related items, such as hot-air hand driers, toilet tissue dispensers, and soap dispensers.
* May deliver laundered towels to customers on route, according to prescribed schedule.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts individual hairspring wires to specified length, using hand-operated cutting device. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls wire from spool and positions and clamps wire end in cutting stop.
* Pulls wire taut and cuts wire to specified length, using pivoted cutting blade.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shapes, joins, engraves, and polishes pewter items following casting, using machine and handtools and applying knowledge of finishing processes. Responsibilities include:
* Secures cast pewter item onto chuck of lathe, depresses button to activate lathe, and pares inner and outer surfaces of items to remove rough edges and excess material, to shape piece to style specifications, and to impart luster to finish, depending on processing stage, using variety of chipping and cutting tools.
* Engraves decorative lines on item, using engraving tool.
* Polishes finished surfaces, using abrasive pad.
* Determines placement on item of auxiliary parts, such as spouts and handles, using paper facsimile, and marks solder path on item, using grease pencil.
* Routs out solder path, following marked lines and using routing machine.
* Places part on jig to stabilize part, aligns auxiliary part with part of jig, and joins parts, using solder and blowtorch.
* Weighs completed pieces to determine deviation from target weight, and records weight and processing time required on production records.
* Carries pieces to next work station.
* Occasionally fabricates chipping and turning tools, using machine and handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who saws and grinds gates and flash from castings of novelty jewelry and trophy figurines. Responsibilities include:
* Starts bandsaw and positions casting against revolving blade to cut off gate.
* Scrapes off flash and smooths rough surfaces, using belt-sanding machine, rotary file, and hand knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to assemble and package disposable plastic hospital products, such as hypodermic syringes, catheters, and intravenous apparatus. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews work order and selects component parts to assemble specified product.
* Fits and assembles parts together, using adhesives and handtools, or heats, bonds, and welds parts together, using automatic equipment.
* Visually inspects products for defects, verifies conformance to specifications, and rejects defective products.
* Packages assembled product into plastic bag or other container and seals package, using sealing machine.
* Packs sealed product and instructional information into cartons, and labels cartons with identifying information.
* May stack cartons in sterilization chamber, seal chamber, and turn valves to admit gas into chamber to sterilize product.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests tensile strength and light value of samples of photocopy, blueprint, and other sensitized paper to ensure conformance to specifications, using duplicating machines and testing devices. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts paper sample in duplicating machine and starts machine.
* Removes developed print and compares sample with printed standard to detect variations in color and clarity.
* Cuts paper sample into strips and clamps ends of strips in tensile strength measuring device.
* Turns handle of testing device until paper breaks.
* Records pounds of force required to break paper.
* Records test data in log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who trims wooden handles of hammers, axes, and hatchets, using portable power chisel, to remove curled shavings (feathers) raised on handle by steel edges of eye when tool head is driven onto handle.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts layer of metal from walls of settings and other surfaces of jewelry articles to reveal bright inner metals. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps article in chuck preparatory to cutting.
* Lubricates cutting tool and pushes tool over surface to remove specified layer of metal.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates, fits, repairs, and maintains orthotic devices, such as braces and surgical supports, according to specifications and under guidance of orthotist or orthotics assistant. Responsibilities include:
* Bends, forms, welds, and saws metal brace structural components to conform to measurements, using hammers, anvils, welding equipment, and saws.
* Drills and taps holes for rivets, and rivets components together.
* Shapes plastic and metal around cast of patient's torso or limbs.
* Covers and pads metal or plastic brace structures, using layers of rubber, felt, plastic, and leather.
* May also perform functions of prosthetics technician and be designated orthotics-prosthetics technician.
Industry:Professional careers
