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A professional who sets up and operates variety of woodworking, metalworking, and plastic-working machines to fabricate component parts, and assembles parts to form miniature models of motor vehicle bodies and accessories, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Constructs parts, following blueprints, computer generated designs, photographs, and other specifications, using bench lathes, milling machine, drill press, planer, baking oven, grinder, files, chisels, and measuring instruments.
* Assembles completed parts to form desired unit, using handtools and abrasives.
* May paint and upholster completed bodies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts metal mesh to specified dimensions to make jewelry articles, such as women's handbags, belts, and watchbands. Responsibilities include:
* Detaches small metal squares from mesh by cutting corner rings until desired size and shape of mesh is attained.
* May complete shaping of mesh with scissors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that attaches buttons to articles of apparel, such as work clothing and caps. Responsibilities include:
* Places tack in holder on machine bed.
* Positions premarked article over tack on bed and positions button on garment over tack and under machine ram.
* Depresses pedal that lowers ram, joining button to article.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles and adjusts typewriters and office machine assemblies and subassemblies, using blueprints, gauges, handtools, and holding devices. Responsibilities include:
* Screws and bolts parts together, using screwdrivers, wrenches, and other handtools.
* Tests operation of machines and typewriters to detect loose and binding parts and to determine synchronization of related parts.
* Bends and taps parts into alignment, using pliers and mallets.
* Turns compensating screws to set parts at specified tensions and clearances.
* Verifies tensions and clearances of parts, using tension scales and space and feeler gauges.
* May ream and tap holes and file and fit carriages and covers of equipment, using hand reamer, tap, and file.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects soldered dial feet to verify that solder has melted evenly and that feet are held securely.
* Tests positioning of feet, using go-not-go gauge.
* May mix flux for use in soldering dial feet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who installs, sets up, and adjusts machines, equipment, tools, jigs and fixtures at scale assembly workbench according to engineering specifications and drawings. Responsibilities include:
* Selects parts, components, materials, and tools according to engineering parts list and conveys parts to work station.
* Reads engineering specifications to determine scale or scale component to be assembled.
* Installs, sets up, and adjusts machines, tools, equipment, and work aids, such as drill press, kick press, air screwdrivers, engraving machine, soldering equipment, jigs, and fixtures, according to engineering specifications, using handtools.
* Assembles and tests balance scale or components to determine if equipment is set up according to specifications and readjusts equipment to meet specifications.
* Explains use of equipment to workers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and adjusts position of watch banking pins to limit angle through which pallet swings to point where escape wheel clears pallet stones, using loupe and watchmaker's tools. Responsibilities include:
* Turns screw to move eccentrically placed banking pin until impulse face of escape wheel drops off pallet jewel.
* Moves pallet back and forth to test jewel pin shake (distance between pallet fork and jewel pin), to verify that shake is equal in both pallet positions, using tweezers.
* Bends pallet to equalize shake, using tweezers.
* Examines locking motion of escape wheel when guard pin is pressed against safety roller to verify guard pin shake (distance between guard pin and safety roller).
* Moves guard point out or files point to obtain correct length.
* Heats pallet to liquefy jewel adhesive, using hot plate, and moves jewels to correct slide, using tweezers.
* Examines pallet action to verify sufficient clearance between pallet and roller.
* Increases or decreases clearance between pallet and roller to correct deficiency, using tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to assemble metal furniture. Responsibilities include:
* Drills holes in parts, such as backrests, covers, and seats, using power drill and template.
* Fits parts together and fastens them temporarily with clamps and presses.
* Bolts, staples, or screws parts together, using handtools, such as pliers, wrenches, pneumatic screwdrivers, and staplers.
* Rivets parts together, using hand or pneumatic hammer.
* Inserts such parts as casters and scuff plates into holes or slots.
* Bends fastening devices and fits interlocking parts together with hammer or rubber mallet or by striking parts against floor or workbench.
* Applies cement to cushions and covers, using brush or spray gun, and joins parts by hand.
* Pulls and fastens drawstrings, wires, or springs to join precut upholstery covers to armrests, seats, and other parts, using handtools.
* Inserts drawers into slides and adjusts slides to fit drawer surfaces.
* Packs furniture for shipment.
* May bend metal parts, using bending machine.
* May be designated according to parts assembled as backrest assembler; seat assembler; or according to type of metal furniture assembled as art metal-chair assembler; office-chair assembler; metal table assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who commands ship to transport passengers, freight, and other cargo across oceans, bays, lakes, and in coastal waters. Responsibilities include:
* Sets course of ship, using navigational aids, such as charts, area plotting sheets, compass, and sextant, and orders crew worker at helm to steer ship.
* Determines geographical position of ship, using loran or azimuths of celestial bodies.
* Inspects ship to ensure that crew and passengers observe regulations pertaining to safety and efficient operation of ship.
* Coordinates activities of crewmembers responsible for signaling devices, such as ship's whistle, flashing lights, flags, and radio, to signal ships in vicinity.
* Calculates landfall (sighting of land), using electronic sounding devices and following contour lines on chart.
* Avoids reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards to shipping, utilizing aids to navigation, such as lights, lighthouses, and buoys.
* Relinquishes command of ship to pilot, ship to guide ship through hazardous waters.
* Signals tugboat captain to berth ship.
* Maintains ship's log.
* Must be licensed by U.S.
* Coast Guard for steam, motor, or sail ship according to waters navigated and tonnage of ship.
* May be designated according to waters licensed to navigate as Master, Bays, Sounds, And Lakes; Master, Coastal Waters; Master, Great Lakes; Master, Ocean.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends semiautomatic turning lathe that bevels and polishes balance wheel screwheads. Responsibilities include:
* Places screw, using tweezers, into threaded chuck and depresses pedal to turn screw firmly into chuck.
* Turns, bevels, and polishes screwhead by manually feeding diamond tool against rotating head until automatic stop is reached.
* Depresses pedal to reverse direction of rotating chuck and to remove finished screw.
* Observes parts, using loupe and tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
