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A professional who bonds metal spring clip to plastic clip-on sunglass frames, using electric heating equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls lever or slides rod to clamp frames in heating fixture.
* Removes bonded frames and examines attachment and action of clip for freedom of movement.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates jeweler's lathe to cut inside or outside curvature in contact lens blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Reads prescription to determine lens thickness and dioptric power and converts specified dioptric power to radius dimensions, using conversion table.
* Inserts plastic blank in holding chuck of lathe.
* Adjusts cutting tool mechanism for specified radius of inside or outside curvature and depth of cut.
* Starts lathe and turns crank to advance cutting tool.
* Observes gauge and readjusts lathe to prevent excessive cutting.
* Pulls control arm to move cutting tool across face of lens.
* Removes lens from chuck and examines lens for smoothness of cut.
* Measures lens to verify compliance with specifications, using thickness gauge and calipers.
* Tapes finished lens to work order and places lens in routing box.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists mold maker i in making metal molds used to cast jewelry articles. Responsibilities include:
* Scrapes, files, and sandpapers surfaces of metal molds so they will close smoothly.
* Performs duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates foundry patterns from various materials, such as wood, metal, and plastic, for use in forming molds for castings, according to blueprint specifications and using various machine tools, power tools, and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Studies blueprint of part to be cast, computes dimensions, and plans sequence of operations depending upon material specified for pattern.
* Measures, marks, and scribes layout on metal casting or woodstock.
* Sets up and operates various wood and metal machine tools and other power tools to machine, cut, and shape stock or casting to specifications.
* Pours or spreads materials into mold or over model of pattern or builds laminations of fiberglass cloth and plastic resin to fabricate patterns from assorted materials, such as plastic, plaster, or clay.
* Assembles pattern sections, using fasteners, such as nails, screws, bolts, glue, or glass cloth and resin.
* Shapes workpiece to specified finish, using handtools and power tools, such as scrapers, files, sanders, grinders, rasps, and planer.
* Verifies conformance of finished pattern to blueprint specifications, using templates and measuring instruments, such as scales, calipers, micrometer, and protractor.
* Applies protective finish or paints pattern sections to indicate method of assembly.
* Repairs broken or damaged patterns and corrects patterns to compensate for defects in castings.
* Constructs templates for layout and inspection.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects multifocal lenses or lens parts, at various stages of processing, for defects caused by flaws in glass or improper assembly. Responsibilities include:
* Examines lenses or lens parts, such as polished multifocal buttons, polished lens blanks, and fused multifocal buttons, for defects, such as scratches or chips on surface or presence of dust or water stains along fused juncture.
* Measures dimensions of lenses or parts, using lens gauge or millimeter ruler.
* Places lenses or lens parts in trays for transfer to other departments.
* Keeps production record.
* May chill mounted lenses in freezer to contract mounting pitch for ease of lens removal.
* May remove lenses or lens parts from block by tapping block with hammer.
* May be designated according to lens or lens part inspected as fusing-line inspector; multifocal-button inspector; topside inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates variety of machines to fabricate tooling, patterns, parts, and models for electronic, mechanical or electromechanical instruments, devices, or equipment, such as electromedical and computer equipment; measuring, indicating, and controlling instruments; and surgical and navigational instruments, according to engineering blueprints and specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Studies drawings and sketches of proposed product and confers with engineering personnel to plan design details and model operation.
* Determines machines, tooling, and sequence of operation necessary to produce model parts, tooling, dies, or patterns, utilizing knowledge of machining and fabricating techniques.
* Lays out reference points and dimensions on assorted materials, such as metals, plastic, and synthetic resins, using measuring instruments and work aids.
* Sets up and operates machines, such as milling machines, lathes, grinders, drill press, punch press, and brake, to produce or modify model parts.
* Fits and assembles parts, using handtools or power tools.
* Wires and solders electrical and electronic connections and components.
* Inspects and tests model or other product to verify conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments, such as calipers, gauges, and micrometers, and test equipment, such as multimeter and oscilloscope.
* Suggests structural or operational modifications or reworks component parts as required to ensure performance of equipment or parts meets standards.
* May consult with engineering personnel to evaluate design and performance factors.
* May specialize in fabricating, testing, and adjusting prototype models of electromedical equipment and be designated medical-apparatus model maker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes malfunctions in computerized electromechanical photofinishing equipment and replaces or repairs defective components, utilizing knowledge of equipment operation and repair. Responsibilities include:
* Examines and tests equipment to determine nature and probable cause of malfunction, using work aids such as voltmeter, ohmmeter, schematic drawings, and equipment specifications.
* Removes and replaces defective electronic, electrical, mechanical, and plumbing components, such as pipes, valves, printed circuit boards, wiring, switches, thermostats, heaters, motors, pumps, gears, and drive chains, using handtools and following drawings and manufacturer's manuals.
* Tightens or solders loose connections and fittings, and performs related repairs.
* Adjusts equipment to manufacturer's specifications, using handtools and measuring instruments.
* Test operates equipment to ensure that defects have been corrected.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with hand forging, straightening, tempering, sharpening, assembling, repairing, and reconditioning handtools used in woodworking, metalworking, ceramics, construction, mechanics, agriculture, masonry, sheet metal, jewelry, and watchmaking; setting, filing, welding, or otherwise reconditioning circular or bandsaw blades; and grinding or otherwise reconditioning twist drills, reamers, lathe bits, and other cutting tools used in power and machine tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, cleans, adjusts and certifies precision optical measuring, sighting, aligning, and leveling instruments to ensure conformance to company, military, and governmental standards, using precision measuring instruments and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Reads written and schematic specifications, handbooks, inspection manuals, and blueprints to determine inspection and certification data, such as required tolerances, adjustment and certification methods, formulas, and measuring instruments required.
* Inspects instruments to detect surface defects, such as chips, burrs, loose lenses, and mirrors, bent or broken parts, and presence of foreign matter.
* Removes defects, such as chips and burrs, using hand honing tool.
* Measures instrument parts, using gauges, and calculates degree of wear and looseness of parts, using established mathematical formulas.
* Verifies sighting and focal accuracy of instruments, such as transits and alignment scopes, using targets and mirror systems of established heights and distances.
* Turns setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.
* Cleans mirrors and lenses of instrument, using solvent, rags, and brushes, and secures certification tag to instrument.
* Routes defective instruments to repair or calibration laboratories.
* Maintains inspection records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coats tips of sunglass clips with protective plastic and cures coated clips in oven. Responsibilities include:
* Slides metal clips onto rack and immerses rack in molten plastic to coat tips of metal clips, or applies plastic to tips, using brush.
* Places racks of clips in oven for specified period to cure plastic.
* Removes racks, examines coating for proper baking, indicated by color of plastic, and places racks on table for further processing or in oven for further baking.
Industry:Professional careers
