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A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with making models or patterns of any combination of metal, clay, plastics, and similar materials.
* Wood patternmakers are included in group 661.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in making models, such as mechanical and electric clocks, timers, and controls. Responsibilities include:
* Sets up and operates lathe, milling machine, shaper, grinder, and related machines and equipment.
* Trains new workers.
* Inspects models or fabricated parts for conformance to specifications, using gauges, micrometers, and other precision instruments.
* Assembles and tests models to verify performance standards.
* Requisitions materials and parts.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in making models, foundry patterns, and prototypes from wood, plastic, plaster, or metal, for use in manufacture of dies, castings, and such products as machinery parts and automobile body parts.
* Trains workers.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cutting out patterns for shoe lasts. Responsibilities include:
* Reads and interprets work orders and lasts specifications.
* Trains new workers.
* Inspects patterns to ensure conformance to specifications.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts staking machines used to assemble clock and watch parts according to blueprints and operation sheets. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with department supervisor and reviews operation sheets to determine parts or assemblies to be processed, assembly specifications, and instructions for machine setup.
* Bolts or screws specified dies into beds of machines according to blueprints, using handtools.
* Operates machines to press or rivet parts together to form sample assemblies.
* Examines and measures sample assemblies for adherence to surface and dimensional specifications, using gauges such as micrometers and calipers, and confers with quality control personnel to gain approval of sample for production.
* Demonstrates operation of machines to production workers and examines work to detect production defects.
* Oils and cleans machines, using oilcans and cloths.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that solders holding feet (used to secure dial to watch movement) to back of watch dials. Responsibilities include:
* Places dial on asbestos holding fixture.
* Positions soldering rings over specified points on dial and positions dial foot in each ring, using tweezers.
* Lowers weights onto holding feet to secure feet in fixture.
* Starts machine that automatically moves lighted gas torch into position to solder feet to blank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects parts for defects in finish and dimensions, using machine that projects magnified shadows of parts on screen. Responsibilities include:
* Reads specifications of part to ascertain form and degree to be magnified.
* Draws enlarged outline of part to scale on chart (celluloid disk), using scribers, dividers, and straightedge.
* Places chart over translucent glass disk of comparator (shadowgraph) machine.
* Inserts specified lens into machine and adjusts mirrors to magnify parts.
* Positions and secures parts on machine table.
* Turns light on and moves levers of machine to bring shadows of parts into focus with chart outline.
* Inspects shadows for imperfections of finish and incorrect dimensions.
* Prepares reports of findings.
* May rotate part in holding fixture to examine surfaces and to verify concentricity of parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who wipes grease and fingermarks from typewriter parts, such as covers, platen, and keyboard, using cloth and solvent and touches up scratches and nicks in enamel finish, using paint and brush.
* Notifies supervisor if shade of touchup paint and cover color do not match.
* Rejects machines with covers too badly marred to touch up.
* Records serial numbers of machines cleaned.
* May insert wire to secure typewriter carriage in place for shipping.
* May attach identifying tags and warranty to typewriter.
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 winds single or multiple lengths of surgical catgut onto fiber suture reel. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls out holding flaps on reel, inserts end of strand under one flap, and places reel on power-driven wheel.
* Presses pedal to actuate wheel and guides strand under holding flaps as wheel spins to wind precut lengths or counts wheel revolutions to measure lengths.
* Turns reels by hand when winding numerous strands.
* Cuts catgut from spool, using scissors.
* Inserts completed reels in plastic envelopes for subsequent sterilization, or into glass tubes for future use.
Industry:Professional careers
