- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who fabricates steel arch support to fit patient's foot, according to medical prescription. Responsibilities include:
* Receives plaster cast of foot from prosthetist or podiatrist.
* Places protection cloth into cast and fills cast with plaster to mold model of patient's foot.
* Removes hardened model from cast and traces model outline on paper to use as pattern in cutting support.
* Selects stainless steel sheet of prescribed thickness and cuts sheet to specified dimensions, using shears, guided by pattern.
* Hammers steel into prescribed contours to form support and places support against plaster model to determine accuracy of fit.
* Splits support into front and back pieces when indicated according to prescription, using shears.
* Polishes support, using abrasive wheel.
* Glues leather to bottom of arch support to protect shoe, and rivets additional leather across top edge for foot comfort, using riveting tool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that expands fuse cups into adapters of fragmentation bombs to ensure tightness of fit. Responsibilities include:
* Wipes cup threads with cloth and screws cup into bomb cavity, using wrench.
* Guides bomb from conveyor into machine jig.
* Pushes lever to force tapered mandrel into fuse cup and expand cup into adapter wall.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates bench-mounted cutting machine to cut eyeglass lenses to specified size and shape. Responsibilities include:
* Selects metal pattern according to prescription specifications and mounts pattern in spring clamp of cutting machine.
* Sets control dial for specified lens diameter plus allowance for edge grinding.
* Aligns center and axis marks on lens with markings on pad of cutting machine and lowers cushioned pressure arm of machine which holds lens in position.
* Lowers cutting arm over lens and turns crank which rotates lens under cutting wheel to determine if machine settings are correct.
* Presses cutting arm down to hold cutting wheel against lens and turns crank to cut lens.
* Removes lens from machine and chips excess material from lens edges, using chipping pliers.
* Routes cut lenses to edging department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs, tests, and calibrates optomechanical instruments, such as range finders, gun directors, and fire-control instruments, according to specifications, using handtools, bench machines, and precision measuring instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Disassembles optomechanical instruments and inspects for defects, such as broken or worn mechanical parts and scratched or defectively coated optical elements.
* Fabricates replacement parts, using bench lathes, drill presses, and milling machines.
* Cleans optical element, using cloth, and immerses element in solution to remove defective coating.
* Files and hones mechanical parts to facilitate meshing of gears.
* Coats optical element, using coating equipment.
* Reassembles instruments and adjusts parts to ensure freedom of movement, using handtools.
* Installs instrument in test fixture or mount, and sights known objective of fixed distance and height to test sighting accuracy of instrument.
* Adjusts readings on instrument dials to calibrate instrument according to observation.
* Measures dial graduations and scales to verify accuracy, using precision measuring instruments.
* Engraves scales and graduations on instrument dials to correct errors, using pantograph engraving machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles machined parts into precision aircraft and missile assemblies, such as landing gear struts, brakes, fueling equipment, control linkages, actuators, and gearbox mechanisms, according to specifications, using handtools, power tools, and measuring instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Measures parts to determine specified tolerance, using measuring instruments, such as micrometers, calipers, and verniers.
* Files and buffs parts to fit, using handtools and power tools.
* Drills, taps, reams, countersinks, and spotfaces bolt holes in parts, using drill press or portable power drill.
* Positions and aligns parts, using jigs, fixtures, and templates.
* Bolts, screws, and rivets parts together, using handtools and power tools.
* Disassembles and replaces parts as required.
* May lap and hone internal cylindrical surfaces.
* May test functional performance of assembly.
* May clean and lubricate parts and assemblies.
* May mark identifying information on parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles drawers for use in metal file cabinets. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts slide rod, block, and spring in file drawers to hold file guides.
* Rivets label holders to drawer fronts.
* Screws handles to drawers.
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 contacts landowners and representatives of other oil or coal producing firms to negotiate agreements, such as leases, options, and royalty contracts covering oil or coal exploration, drilling, and producing activities in specified oil or coal fields. Responsibilities include:
* Discusses and draws up unitization agreements (pooling oil and gas production from wells located in same field with other oil producers).
* Discusses land leases and options and royalty payments with landowners and obtains signatures to documents.
* Applies knowledge of company policies and local, state, and federal laws relating to petroleum or coal leases to prepare agreements.
* May examine abstracts to verify clearance of title to oil or coal properties and write purchase orders and bank checks to satisfy requirements of leases, agreements, and contracts (title clerk).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who etches specified portions of metal parts and materials used in manufacturing aircraft, using immersion equipment, templates, handtools, and precision measuring instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order, blueprints, and process specifications to determine location of etch, finished dimensions, and method and sequence of operations.
* Cleans surface of parts and materials to ensure uniform adhesion of maskant.
* Applies maskant to surfaces to be etched, scribes etch lines, using template, and removes maskant from etch areas.
* Immerses parts and materials in etching solution for specified time, manually or using hoist.
* Removes objects from etch solution, rinses objects with water, and removes remaining maskant.
* Measures etched parts and materials for conformance to specifications, using micrometers, scales, and other precision measuring instruments.
* May immerse parts and materials in successive baths and rinses to perform surface processing in addition to etching, such as pickling, chromodizing, passivating, degreasing, and stripping, and be designated process equipment operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles machined parts into precision aircraft and missile assemblies, such as landing gear struts, brakes, fueling equipment, control linkages, actuators, and gearbox mechanisms, according to specifications, using handtools, power tools, and measuring instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Measures parts to determine specified tolerance, using measuring instruments, such as micrometers, calipers, and verniers.
* Files and buffs parts to fit, using handtools and power tools.
* Drills, taps, reams, countersinks, and spotfaces bolt holes in parts, using drill press or portable power drill.
* Positions and aligns parts, using jigs, fixtures, and templates.
* Bolts, screws, and rivets parts together, using handtools and power tools.
* Disassembles and replaces parts as required.
* May lap and hone internal cylindrical surfaces.
* May test functional performance of assembly.
* May clean and lubricate parts and assemblies.
* May mark identifying information on parts.
Industry:Professional careers
