- Industria: Government; Labor
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A professional who cuts, forms, and welds wire mesh and reinforcing steel to fabricate cages used in reinforcing concrete pipe and other concrete forms, according to blueprint or work order specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Obtains roll of wire mesh of specified gauge, and unrolls and stretches out mesh for cutting.
* Measures mesh with steel rule and cuts strands, using hand or pneumatic cutter.
* Feeds wire mesh into rollers of bending machine and turns adjusting wheel to shape frame or cage sections.
* Places formed rods or mesh on floor or in special forming stand preparatory to welding.
* Tack-welds sections together, using arc-welding equipment.
* Cuts reinforcing steel, using cutting torch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who laps valves against valve seats to produce gastight fit, using powered tools. Responsibilities include:
* Applies lapping compound to bearing surfaces of valve and seat.
* Inserts valve stem into valve guide and positions valve against seat.
* Engages holes or slot in top of valve with projections in powered rotary tool (valve grinder).
* Presses and rotates valve against seat, using powered tool.
* May test valve by connecting chamber to hydraulic or pneumatic pressure and observing leaks.
* May rotate valve against seat, using handtool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates luggage hardware according to blueprint specifications for use as patterns in quantity production. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out design on metal, following specifications, and cuts, forms, and assembles finished parts, using hand and machine metalworking tools.
* Verifies dimensions of assembled parts against specifications, using calipers and other precision measuring instruments.
* Fastens assembled hardware to sample luggage, adjusting parts to ensure function of hinges, locks, and closures.
* Alters hardware according to changes in specifications.
* May submit finished luggage sample to customer for approval.
* May design hardware.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following duties to assemble optical instruments, such as telescopes, level-transits, and gunsights. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order, blueprints, and sketches to determine assembly procedure.
* Cleans elements, using tissue, cleaning solution, and compressed air device.
* Coats optical elements according to specifications.
* Cements multiple lens assemblies together.
* Picks up element, using vacuum-holding device, and positions element in mounting seat of instrument housing.
* Inserts and screws locking ring in housing to hold element in place.
* Applies cement to rings to prevent loosening.
* Assembles structural and mechanical parts of instrument according to blueprint specifications, using wrenches and screwdrivers.
* Computes standard trigonometric formulas to determine distance of test target from instrument.
* Positions target in darkroom tunnel and connects optical instrument to test devices, such as oscilloscope and collimator.
* Sights instrument on target and reads dials to determine optical center of instrument lens and to verify specified focusing power.
* Measures elements and instrument parts to verify dimensional specifications, using precision measuring instruments.
* Records inspection and test data.
* May set up and operate lathe to modify instrument parts.
* May paint instrument parts, using brush or spray gun.
* May fill instrument housing with nitrogen gas to minimize corrosive effects on internal optical surfaces, using vacuum pump.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who draws, shapes, and engraves or embosses precious or base metal wire for use in fabricating precious or costume jewelry, such as chains, box links, and bracelets. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts tapered end of metal wire, such as gold, platinum, and silver, through die hole, pulling wire through dies of wire-drawing machine manually to form round, half-round, square, or rectangular jewelry wire.
* Engraves ornamental designs on surface of wire, using triangular and square-pointed tools, such as gravers and carvers, or embosses wire with decorative patterns, using wire-drawing machine equipped with embossing rollers.
* Draws, shapes, and embosses ribbon-wire, using rolling mill.
* Examines dimensions of rolled or drawn wire, using micrometers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles metal cabinets. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts pins in hinges to attach doors to cabinet.
* Attaches stationary knobs in place with screws.
* Fits, assembles, and attaches locks to doors.
* Measures and drills support holes in shelves and shelf brackets and screws shelves in place.
* Adjusts doors, knobs, and shelves to fit by bending, filing, or hammering them, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles plastic eyeglass frames, using drill press and rivet press. Responsibilities include:
* Positions frame parts in jig and drills holes in parts, using drill press.
* Inserts rivets through holes, positions clips and hinges on rivets, and depresses pedal of pneumatic press to set rivets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with engraving or etching designs or lettering into surface of flat or curved metal objects, using engravers' handtools and machines or etching acids and inks.
* Photoengravers and printing plate, die, and roller engravers are included in division 97.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles instruments and devices, such as barometers, control valves, gyroscopes, hygrometers, speedometers, tachometers, and thermostats, using handtools, power tools, and measuring instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Visually examines parts for defects.
* Fits, aligns, and secures internal and external component parts to assemble finished unit, using handtools, power tools, soldering iron, and measuring instruments.
* May inspect assembled unit for conformance to specifications, using measuring and testing equipment.
* May test functional performance of unit, using test equipment.
* May be designated according to product assembled as regulator assembler; thermostat assembler; valve assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who laces and trues-up (aligns) motorcycle and bicycle wheels according to specifications, using gauges and handtools or power tools. Responsibilities include:
* Hooks wire spokes onto perforated hubs and screws nipples of spokes onto rim to lace (assemble) wheel, using special hand wrench.
* Measures diameter of wheel, using fixed gauge.
* Grinds protruding end of spokes from inside surface of rim, using portable hand grinder.
* Mounts tires on wheels and clamps wheel in fixture.
* Positions dial indicator against tire and rim, turns wheel, and notes points at which wheel needs alignment as indicated by needle deflection on indicator.
* Turns spoke nipples with wrench to adjust tension of spokes at indicated points to align wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
