- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who lines ingot mold covers (hot-tops) with firebrick and refractory mortar, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Examines cover to determine necessary repairs.
* Pries or chips defective lining from inside of cover, using crowbar, hammer, or pneumatic chisel.
* Cleans covers, using wire brush.
* Mixes specified amount of refractory mortar powder with water and spreads mixture on inside of cover, using trowel.
* Positions firebrick and refractory ring in mortar, using trowel, tamping bar, and wire clamps.
* Mixes specified amounts of molasses and graphite to form base for premixed facing solution and applies base and facing solution to cover, using brush.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reams center holes of balance wheels subsequent to recessing operation to clean holes, using hand reamer and loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts rollers for roller bearings into groups according to diameter or length. Responsibilities include:
* Sets gauge slots of machine that automatically ejects off-size rollers, using micrometers and gauges.
* Feeds rollers into machine hopper.
* Examines rollers for defects, such as marks, scratches, or other blemishes.
* Measures bearing retainer for conformance to specification, using height gauge.
* Fits bearings into retainer rings and packs roller bearings in boxes for shipment.
* May sort inner and outer rings of ball bearing, according to size, using gauges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects assembled watch winding and setting mechanisms for mechanical and surface defects, using tweezers and loupe. Responsibilities include:
* Moves stem in and out to verify clicking into winding and setting positions and turns stem in each position to test for ease of winding and setting.
* Moves barrel of mechanism to test for amount of vertical play (endshake), using tweezers, and determining from experience whether shake is within acceptable limits.
* Examines movement for scratches and presence of dirt, using loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles head and foot sections of metal bedstead. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts upright fillers in holes in bedpost and in holes in cross filler.
* Springs legs of frame apart and inserts ends of cross filler into holes in legs.
* Fits molding to bedpost and drives it into grooves in bedpost with mallet.
* Forces ends of panel into molding, bottom of panel into cross molding, and ends of cross molding into bedpost, using mallet.
* May cut panel from stock, using power shear.
* May bend molding to shape by use of power press.
* May assemble safety rails and attach motors, pulleys, and cables to bed frame to assemble electric hospital beds.
* May be designated according to section of bed assembled as foot-piece assembler; head-piece assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles plastic eyeglass frames, using drill press and rivet press. Responsibilities include:
* Positions frame parts in jig and drills holes in parts, using drill press.
* Inserts rivets through holes, positions clips and hinges on rivets, and depresses pedal of pneumatic press to set rivets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs and fabricates pewter products, applying knowledge of metallurgy, mold-making, and pewter casting and finishing. Responsibilities include:
* Researches reference materials and consults with interested parties to develop ideas for new products.
* Designs, drafts, and fabricates models of new casting molds, using drafting tools, lathe, and handtools.
* Fabricates lathe accessories and modifies handtools to facilitate turning and finishing of cast pieces.
* Mixes and heats alloy and fills casting molds.
* Joins cast parts to form product, using solder and blowtorch, and shapes, engraves, and polishes product, using lathe and cutting and polishing tools.
* Analyzes production data to determine deviations from standards necessitating replacement of molds or modification of equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who oils and greases moving parts of friction surfaces of mechanical equipment, such as shaft and motor bearings, sprockets, drive chains, gears, and pulleys, according to specified procedures and oral instructions. Responsibilities include:
* Fills container, such as oilcan, grease gun, or tank of lubrication truck with specified lubricant.
* Squirts or pours oil on moving parts and friction surfaces, or into holes, oil cups, or reservoirs.
* Turns oil cup valves to regulate flow of oil to moving parts.
* Forces grease into bearings with grease-gun, smears grease on friction surfaces, or packs grease cups by hand.
* Fills wells and sumps of lubricating systems with oil.
* Reports machinery defects or malfunctions to supervisor.
* May clean machines, sweep floors, and transport stock.
* May be specified according to type of machine or equipment lubricated.
* May tend machine that automatically oils parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fits lenses into plastic sunglass frames and places frames on conveyor belt that passes under heat lamps which soften frames preparatory to setting of lenses.
Industry:Professional careers
