- Industri: Government; Labor
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A professional who cuts out metal templates for cutting dies following master pattern, using shears and files. Responsibilities include:
* Staples pattern onto sheet metal to form outline for cutting operation, using stapling machine.
* Cuts template along pattern edge, using shears and file.
* Removes pattern from template, using hammers and punch.
* Marks identifying information, such as type, number, and size onto template, using pen or pencil.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who glazes tapered ends of glass tubes used in laboratory and medical instruments and apparatus, using gas burner and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Heats tube on gas burner equipped with rolls that revolve tube in flame.
* Transfers tube between burners, set at graduated degrees of temperature, to expose tube to gradual heating and cooling process.
* May manually revolve tube on gas burner rolls to heat tube.
* May periodically glaze glass tubes, using hand torch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects parts, subassemblies, and assembled photographic apparatus, such as still and motion picture cameras, magazines, enlargers, flash units, and film developing machines for conformance to verbal and diagrammatic specifications, using precision measuring and testing instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Examines blueprints, wiring diagrams, and other specifications to determine parts, dimensions, and tolerances required.
* Examines equipment for defects, such as missing parts, incorrect serial numbers, flaws in castings, and light leakage.
* Measures parts to ensure conformance to dimensional specifications, using micrometers, gauges, rules, and other precision measuring instruments.
* Tests functioning of electronic components, using test instruments, such as voltmeters, oscilloscopes, and signal generators.
* Trips camera shutters to verify timing, using timing device.
* Measures focal distance of lenses, using depth micrometer or collimator.
* Traces electrical wiring and examines connections to detect assembly defects and tests electrical circuits for continuity, using wire diagrams and continuity meter.
* Examines test film to detect faulty operation of cameras, using projector, viewing screen, and hand lens.
* Records inspection data and marks or stamps inspection tag to indicate acceptance or rejection of equipment inspected.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machines to disassemble rejected cartridges for salvaging metal parts. Responsibilities include:
* Replaces punches, fingers, dies, feed plate, and shell holders, using handtools, and turns setscrews and stop nuts to adjust ratchets, springs, gates, and pulldown mechanism to accommodate caliber cartridge being processed.
* Starts machine and feeds cartridges into slots in dial feed plate by hand.
* Shakes empty cases in hand tumbler to remove powder.
* Weighs and records scrap and components.
* May insert cartridges in jaws of bench device and pull lever to extract bullet.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who trims excess metal from edges of hollowware, such as trays, platters, bowls, and vegetable dishes after forming on forming press, using circular saw. Responsibilities include:
* Selects saw blade according to metal composition of workpiece and mounts it on driving spindle, using wrench.
* Measures distance from bottom of workpiece to ridge or scallop on contour and adjusts height of saw blade, using dividers, scale, adjustable square, and wrenches.
* Starts machine and positions hollow side of workpiece over saw blade with top flat against backboard.
* Guides workpiece against saw following designated ridge or scallop to cut excess metal at same height around edge of workpiece.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stamps out, shapes, and trims ring and findings blanks for jewelry, such as bracelets, pins, and earrings, performing any of following tasks. Responsibilities include:
* Stamps out ring and finding blanks from metal strips, using kick-press or power press.
* Forms contoured ring body from blank metal, using drop-press.
* Trims excess metal from edges of contoured ring body.
* Heats and softens metal blanks preparatory to stamping and shaping operations, using annealing furnace or gas torch.
* May operate rolling mill to decrease thickness of metal ingots.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in lubricating industrial equipment and machinery. Responsibilities include:
* Trains workers in lubrication methods, operation of lubrication equipment, and in use of various types and grades of oils and greases.
* Records lubrication activities to verify equipment is serviced as scheduled.
* Orders installation of grease cup and other fittings to reduce machine wear.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and adjusts electric-clock wheel parts to correct truing ii of pinion and wheel assemblies, using comparator, loupe, and truing tools. Responsibilities include:
* Places part in rotating jig of comparator and projects part onto calibrated screen to determine degree of truing defect or examines part to determine defect, using loupe.
* Bends parts manually to correct truing defect or forces truing tool against rotating part to correct defect.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests and repairs gyroscopes according to blueprints and other specifications, using tools and equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Tests functional performance of gyroscope, using electronic test equipment.
* Disassembles mechanical and electrical components of defective gyroscope, following blueprints, using handtools and power tools.
* Measures parts, using precision measuring instruments, and adjusts fit of parts and balances gimbal (stabilizer), using handtools, power tools, and bench machines.
* Cleans and replaces parts.
* Tests and reassembles repaired gyroscope.
* May repair other precision electromechanical instruments, such as accelerometers and potentiometers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stones (polishes) watch parts, such as winding wheels and clicks (pawls), to specified thickness, using blocking equipment and polishing stone. Responsibilities include:
* Adjusts stops on block corners to specified height indicated by gauge, using screwdriver.
* Brushes block surface with vaseline to hold wheels or clicks in place.
* Fits wheels or clicks over protruding pins of block, using tweezers.
* Places block, face down, on stone.
* Fits projecting pin of handle in block recess and rubs block against stone with circular motion until touch indicates parts are stoned to size.
* Verifies thickness of part, using loupe and indicator gauge.
Industry:Professional careers
