- Industria: Government; Labor
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A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who trues, blocks, and polishes gold watch wheels, using handpress, block adhesive, and polishing stones. Responsibilities include:
* Flattens (trues) wheel, using handpress.
* Blocks wheels in recess of disk-shaped block, using adhesive.
* Rubs wheel on wet stone to rough polish wheel.
* Applies polishing compound to steel block and rubs wheel on block to polish wheel to required luster.
* Examines wheel to verify required luster and freedom from defects, using loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more bench machines that generate, grind, edge, or polish ophthalmic lenses and precision optical elements. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts blocked element in machine holding device.
* Verifies machine settings or adjusts machines for variables, such as speed, machining time, and flow rate of abrasive or coolant.
* Starts machine that automatically generates, grinds, polishes, or edges optical element.
* Removes element after specified machining time, rinses element in water, and measures to verify specified dimensions of element, using micrometer, caliper, dial gauge, and shadowgraph.
* May deblock and clean element in degreasing tank.
* May be designated according to fabricating process or type lens fabricated as contact-lens-curve grinder; contact-lens-edge buffer; fusion-juncture grinder; machine lens-edge grinder; lens-generating-machine tender; multifocal-button countersink grinder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles monotubes, unloads and stores nuclear reactor fuel elements, and decontaminates work area. Responsibilities include:
* Places fuel elements and spacers on rack of monotube loading machine in sequential order.
* Activates machine that automatically pushes fuel elements and spacers into monotubes.
* Moves filled monotubes to storage, using recharge machine.
* Removes tube caps from reactor wall openings and attaches connector to loaded monotube and adapter to reactor tube preparatory to charging-discharging operation, using handtools.
* Decontaminates work area, using brush, soap, and water.
* Places radiation exposed safety clothing in laundry bags for cleaning and stacks cleaned clothing on shelves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects assembled watches, clocks, and appliance timers for conformance to company standards. Responsibilities include:
* Scans assemblies to detect defects, such as surface blemishes, broken or scratched crystals, faulty plating, tightness of case, and presence of foreign matter.
* Turns crown and set buttons on assemblies to determine ease of setting and winding.
* Compares accuracy of watches and clocks with master clock to determine conformance to specified tolerances.
* Marks type of defects found on assemblies, using pencil or crayon, and places defective assemblies in containers for repair.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that inserts and seats primers in center fire cartridge cases and shotgun shells. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine and feeds cases onto pins of rotating dial plate or fills hopper.
* Observes flow of primers and cases through feed tracks to detect malfunction or jamming of inserting and seating punches and ejection mechanism.
* Stops machine to remove jammed primers or cases, using fingers, and notifies primer-inserting-machine adjuster of malfunction.
* Examines primed cases at ejection chute for defects, such as dents or scratches, and measures them for conformance to specifications, using fixed gauges.
* May tend machine that waterproofs cases.
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 removes watch parts from metal polishing blocks, utilizing one of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Heats block on hot plate to melt shellac, and pushes parts off block, using spatula, or holds block upside down and blows parts off block, using compressed airhose.
* (2) Heats and places block upside down on bed of handpress.
* Lowers ram to force parts out.
* (3) Places blocks in caustic solution to dissolve shellac and loosen parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who builds frames for silk or metal screens used to stencil identifying or operational data on parts or products following blueprints. Responsibilities include:
* Bends bar stock to specified shape and dimensions to form frame, using vise and handtools.
* Solders joints, using soldering iron.
* Measures and marks location of holes on frame, using rule.
* Drills and threads holes, using drill press and handtap.
* Screws guides and stops in holes for use in positioning part in frame.
Industry:Professional careers
