- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who repairs medical equipment, such as manual or powered wheelchairs, hospital beds, and suction equipment, using knowledge of equipment function and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Test operates and examines malfunctioning equipment to determine cause of malfunction.
* Disassembles and inspects equipment to locate defective components, such as motors, valves, and electrical controls, using test instruments and handtools.
* Replaces defective parts, and solders, tightens, and aligns parts which have become loose or out of adjustment, using handtools and soldering iron.
* Cleans, lubricates, and polishes equipment components to restore surface, using solvent, polish, rags, and grease gun.
* Test operates unit to ensure equipment functions according to manufacturer's specifications.
* Occasionally installs modified parts, such as respirator equipment or foot rest, onto wheelchairs, according to customer specification, and fills parts orders from customers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and services bicycles, using power tools and handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Tightens and loosens spokes to align wheels.
* Disassembles axle to repair coaster brakes and to adjust and replace defective parts, using handtools.
* Adjusts cables or replaces worn or damaged parts to repair handbrakes.
* Installs and adjusts speed and gear mechanisms.
* Shapes replacement parts, using bench grinder. Installs, repairs, and replaces equipment or accessories, such as handle bars, stands, lights, and seats.
* Paints bicycle frame, using spray gun or brush.
* Rubs tubes with scraper and places patch over hole to repair tube.
* May weld broken or cracked frame together, using oxyacetylene torch and welding rods.
* May assemble and sell new bicycles and accessories.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists sewing-machine repairer in repairing household and industrial sewing machines. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts machines to work bench and disassembles parts, using wrenches and screwdrivers.
* Cleans parts, using solvent and rags.
* Replaces defective parts and reassembles machines.
* Starts and observes machines in operation to test performances.
* Uncrates and assembles new machines.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this division includes occupations concerned with shaping, cutting, scoring, joining, and otherwise machining paper and paper products.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with cutting multiple sheets of paper, pasteboard, and similar material to specific size; and forming spiral or convolute paper tubing to make such articles as paper containers and covers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating machines to spiral-wind continuous cardboard strips to make cores for paper rolls. Responsibilities include:
* Orders type of paper and glue to be used, number of strips to be wound, and machine changes required to meet production requirements.
* Inspects cores for specified length, diameter, and solidity, using rule, calipers, and breakage tester.
* Directs machine operator in changing speed of traveling cut-off saw, adjusting tension on paper strips, and changing adhesives.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up machine that cuts edges, flaps, notches, or openings in envelope blanks or envelopes. Responsibilities include:
* Bolts specified cutting die onto machine ram, using handtools.
* Turns handwheel to adjust stroke of ram according to depth of die.
* Turns setscrews to adjust machine guides and stops to accommodate specified size paper stock, using rule and screwdriver.
* Operates machine for trial run and compares first piece with sample to verify accuracy of machine setup.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds specified lengths of paper ribbon into hanks. Responsibilities include:
* Threads ribbon through guides of worktable and hanking machine, fastening end in jaws of machine holder.
* Starts machine that winds specified yardage over spindle arms to form hank and examines ribbon for missing threads, tears, defective design, or other imperfections.
* Stops machine and folds seal on creased lines around center of hank to hold ribbon together and prevent unwinding.
* Removes ribbon from holder, positions it under blade, and releases handle to cut ribbon and hold other end for hanking.
* Slides hank from spindle arms, packs it in cardboard cartons in specified manner, and inserts identification slip.
* Adjusts cutting blade and guides to accommodate different widths of ribbon.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts, stores, and issues revenue stamps and labels. Responsibilities include:
* Turns hand screws on paper-cutting tool to tighten paper guide that holds sheets of stamps or labels in position.
* Pulls knife down by hand or steps on treadle that lowers knife to cut sheets.
* Sharpens knife by rubbing it with abrasive stone.
* Records number of sheets cut and sequence of serial numbers of revenue stamps.
* Stocks cut revenue stamps and labels, and issues them on request.
* May be designated according to type of paper item cut as revenue-stamp cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to form convolute tubes used for fiber cans or containers. Responsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts winding mandrel, gluing and labeling attachments, and slitting and cutting knives, using handtools.
* Places roll of paper on machine feedrack and threads paper through gluing, coating, and slitting rollers.
* Fills glue and paraffin reservoirs, and loads stacks of labels in labeling device or adjusts feeding mechanism.
* Sets paper feeding timer for specified number of turns.
* Starts machine and turns wheels and dials to regulate tension on pressure rolls, speed of gluing and coating rollers, temperature of paraffin reservoir, and machine feed speed.
* Examines cut-labeled tubes for defects, such as misplaced or wrinkled labels, uneven or excessive glue and paraffin distribution, and uneven winding of paper strips.
* May cut labels to specified dimensions, using hand or powered paper cutter.
* May attach threading or forming fixture to machine that thread end of tube or shape it into box form.
Industry:Professional careers
