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A professional who tends rotary and shaker screens that tumble primed rim-fire cartridge cases to shake out loose particles of priming mixture, sawdust, dirt, and chips and to screen out oversize and malformed cases.
* Records volume of production.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who saws and grinds gates and flash from castings of novelty jewelry and trophy figurines. Responsibilities include:
* Starts bandsaw and positions casting against revolving blade to cut off gate.
* Scrapes off flash and smooths rough surfaces, using belt-sanding machine, rotary file, and hand knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who secures regulator pin in regulator, using jeweler's tools.
* Positions regulator in holding fixture and places pin in hole of regulator, using tweezers and loupe.
* Taps pin with hammer and cuts off protruding excess of pin, using pliers.
* Secures fit of pin, using staking tool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who builds or repairs camera bellows, using handtools, power tools, and gluing equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Selects cardboard cone bellow form according to size of bellows.
* Cuts paper pattern of cone.
* Cuts lining and cover materials for bellows, according to pattern, using scissors or electric knife.
* Stretches lining around cone and glues overlapping edges to cone.
* Cuts cardboard strips (ribs) and glues strips to lining.
* Glues cover over ribbed lining and attaches front and rear metal frames, using glue and clamps.
* Trims excess material from assembly, using scissors and removes dried glue, using solvent and cloth.
* Compresses assembly over special frame to pleat material and form completed bellows.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates bench lathe to saw, mill, burr, or bevel metal stock or parts used to make jewelry findings. Responsibilities include:
* Secures stock in guide or jig, starts lathe, and moves stock against cutting tool.
* May manipulate stock against cutting tool without use of guide or jig.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises, coordinates, and participates in activities of workers engaged in fabricating cosmetic appliances from latex for use as artificial breasts. Responsibilities include:
* Explains and demonstrates work techniques and use of equipment to train new employees.
* Observes workers to ensure that work performance conforms to company standards.
* Weighs, pours, and mixes prescribed amounts of filtered water and chemicals, using scale and mixing tanks, to prepare latex gel.
* Places plastic roll on worktable, using hydraulic jack, unrolls plastic, and cuts plastic to specified sizes, according to work order, using portable rotary cutting machine.
* Molds shells, using vacuum forming machine, and cuts molded sheets into individual shells, using cutting machine.
* Fills inner shells with latex gel, using weighing and filling device, and imprints outer shell backing with identification data, using printing device.
* Fuses backing to shells to form cells, using heat sealing machine, inflates cells with airhose, and seals cells, using tacking device.
* Compiles inventory reports.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches watch crowns to stem. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts stems into chuck of machine and places crown in holding tool.
* Presses holding tool against revolving stem that automatically screws on crown.
* May hold stem with pliers and screw crown onto stem by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who casts patterns in nonferrous metals for use in high production duplicate castings, applying knowledge of metal characteristics, molding sand, contours of patterns, and pouring procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Makes one or more sand molds, using wood pattern to form mold impression of metal pattern to be cast.
* Pours molten aluminum, bronze, or other nonferrous metal into molds with hand ladle.
* Machines metal patterns to exact dimensions.
* May make wood patterns used to form sand molds in which metal patterns are cast.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shapes metal eye castings to fit in wooden shuttles. Responsibilities include:
* Files and sands eye castings to specified shape and smoothness, using vise, hand files, and emery cloth.
* Removes completed castings from vise and places castings in containers.
* Cleans brass particles from files by drawing file card (block of wood with even rows of metal pins attached) through file grooves.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends power screwdriver that tightens bolts, nuts, or drives screws to assemble products fabricated from materials, such as wood, metal, plastic, or other materials. Responsibilities include:
* Threads or clamps specified torque chuck onto machine spindle.
* Inserts shank of specified wrench or screwdriver bit into chuck and tightens it, using chuck wrench.
* Inserts screw or bolt through holes of workpieces or nut onto stud, and turns screw or bolt to catch thread.
* Positions bolt or nut under bit, and depresses lever to lower spindle and grip head of screw or nut.
* Pushes pedal to activate spindle that turns and tightens nut, bolt, or screw to torque limit of chuck.
* May tend machine that positions screw or bolt into workpiece.
* May tend machine that is activated by pressing workpiece against chuck.
* May fill hoppers with screws and tend machine that automatically feeds screw between aligned holes of workpiece.
Industry:Professional careers
