- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to assemble surgical garments and personal safety devices, such as colostomy pouches, trusses, belts, cervical collars, hosiery, and back, knee, wrist, elbow, and ankle braces. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order to determine number and type of parts required to assemble garment.
* Measures and cuts required pieces, using ruler, templates, knife, and electric or hand shears.
* Punches holes in material, using punch press or hand punch.
* Attaches fasteners, such as eyelets or snaps, using rivet, snap-fastening, or eyelet machine.
* Grinds and polishes parts, using grinding wheel.
* Bends metal stays (springs) to specified curvature, using bending machine.
* Applies latex coating to parts or specified areas of parts, using coating machine.
* Fits and fastens parts together, such as straps, buckles, pads, belts, and stays to assemble garment, using handtools, gluing equipment, and machines, such as punch press, riveting machine, heat-sealing machine, and sewing machine.
* Weaves elastic thread into outer edges of garments, such as knee, wrist, and elbow braces, to increase elasticity.
* Places completed garments in boxes or plastic bags for packaging.
* May be designated according to type garment assembled or material worked with as elastic assembler; latexer ii; leather worker; spring bender; truss assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who flattens previously initialed heads of signet rings to remove dents, using press.
* Positions plunger and arbor holder in press.
* Slips ring on arbor and inserts arbor in arbor holder.
* Pushes lever that forces plunger down on head of ring to flatten it and remove dents.
* Releases lever and removes ring from press.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this group includes occupations concerned with fabricating and repairing optical instruments, such as microscopes, field glasses, opera glasses, and telescopes; optical measuring and testing instruments, such as refractometers, spectrometers, spectroscopes, colorimeters, and polariscopes; and optical range finders, bombsights, and fire-control instruments.
* Occupations concerned with fabricating and repairing optical lenses are included in group 716.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles, repairs, remodels, and services photographing, projecting, editing, sound-recording, and power equipment used in motion picture production, using handtools and bench machines. Responsibilities include:
* Reads job order and blueprints to plan work procedures.
* Disassembles defective equipment, using handtools.
* Constructs replacement parts (except camera lenses and other optical parts) used to repair or remodel equipment, using machines, such as bench lathes, milling machines, gear cutters, grinders, and drill presses.
* Finishes, fits, and installs parts, using precision handtools and calibration devices.
* Measures installed parts for conformance to specifications, using micrometers and calipers.
* Operates repaired equipment to verify operational efficiency.
* Cleans and lubricates equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and matches colored goggle lenses to obtain pairs and places matched lenses of same shade in box.
* May inspect lenses for defects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs variety of experiments on watch parts, lubricants, and abrasives used in manufacture of horological instruments to ascertain conformance to production standards. Responsibilities include:
* Heats or cools watch parts to specific temperatures in oven or refrigerator.
* Subjects heated or cooled watch parts to stress tests and records results.
* Tests lubricants and abrasives used in watch manufacture for conformance to established lubricity and abrasion levels.
* Analyzes test results to detect deficiencies in watch parts, lubricants or abrasives and suggests modifications in production methods to overcome deficiencies.
* Recommends new test procedures or testing devices as necessary.
* May assist in fabrication and installation of new testing devices.
* May repair ovens or refrigerators.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and adjusts defective typewriters removed from production line, using handtools, power tools, and gauges. Responsibilities include:
* Operates typewriter to test functioning of parts and mechanisms to determine repairs required.
* Disassembles machines to repair or replace defective components, using handtools and holding devices.
* Bends, taps, turns parts, such as screws, nuts, and type bar, to eliminate binding, looseness, and misalignment, using special handtools.
* Verifies specified clearance between parts, using spacebars, tension scales, dial indicators, and feeler gauges.
* Measures rotation of motor drive-wheel to determine speed of wheel, using tachometer.
* May adjust interrelated typewriter parts to synchronize machine operation and be designated adjuster.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who polarizes motors used in timers and clocks, using electromagnet. Responsibilities include:
* Oils rotor pinion of motor, using oil-soaked cloth.
* Inserts motor between poles of electromagnet and activates electromagnet to polarize motor.
* Places polarized motor on conveyor for further processing.
* Tallies each polarized motor, using counting device, and records daily production.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs defective thermostats used in refrigeration, air-conditioning, and heating equipment, following blueprints and other specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Disassembles and examines thermostats to locate and remove defective parts, using handtools.
* Replaces defective parts, such as bellows, range spring, and toggle switch, and reassembles thermostat according to blueprint specifications, using cam press and handtools.
* Measures tolerances of assembled parts, using micrometer and calipers.
* Repairs leaks in valve seats or bellows of automotive heater thermostats, using soft solder, flux, and acetylene torch.
* Examines thermostat for defects, such as loose screws and dents.
* Writes repair ticket to identify thermostat and places repaired thermostats in tote boxes.
* Calibrates thermostat for specified temperature or pressure settings.
Industry:Professional careers
