- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who bends metal and plastic tubing, according to specifications, for use in hydraulic, fuel, and electrical installations. Responsibilities include:
* Draws outline of tubing on cardboard or cuts wood forming blocks with band scroll saw, following templates.
* Screws blocks to forming board, as specified.
* Bends tubing by hand to conform to outline on cardboard or hammers tubing around forming blocks, using mallet.
* May heat plastic tubing in hot oil or water to facilitate bending.
* May operate circular power hacksaw to cut tubing.
* May bead, burr, and flare tubing.
* May assemble and test preformed metal tubing for use in hydraulic, fuel, and water systems of aircraft and spacecraft.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in fabrication, assembly, and packing of military gas masks.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in inspecting, testing, repairing, adjusting, and calibrating instruments, such as altimeters, ammeters, barometers, compasses, position indicators, steam gauges, tachometers, and voltmeters. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares work orders indicating malfunctions of instruments.
* Inspects and tests shop equipment and repaired instruments for conformance to quality control standards, using testing equipment, such as oscilloscope, pressure chamber, ammeter, and voltmeter.
* May disassemble, adjust, alter, repair, calibrate, and reassemble damaged or defective instruments, using tweezers and handtools.
* May train workers in inspecting, testing, repairing, and calibrating procedures.
* Performs other tasks as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects parts for defects in finish and dimensions, using machine that projects magnified shadows of parts on screen. Responsibilities include:
* Reads specifications of part to ascertain form and degree to be magnified.
* Draws enlarged outline of part to scale on chart (celluloid disk), using scribers, dividers, and straightedge.
* Places chart over translucent glass disk of comparator (shadowgraph) machine.
* Inserts specified lens into machine and adjusts mirrors to magnify parts.
* Positions and secures parts on machine table.
* Turns light on and moves levers of machine to bring shadows of parts into focus with chart outline.
* Inspects shadows for imperfections of finish and incorrect dimensions.
* Prepares reports of findings.
* May rotate part in holding fixture to examine surfaces and to verify concentricity of parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who brushes lacquer in second track recess of timepiece dial to prevent removal of finish during polishing and brushes lacquer over trylons (numerical markings) of dial to prevent trylons from being plated during dial-plating operation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grinds and sands contoured metal surfaces to finish forging dies, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Selects abrasive tools according to operation and dimensions specified.
* Manipulates powered hand grinder to remove bead, grind curved surfaces to specified radii, remove machining marks, and smooth die surfaces.
* Sands surfaces of cavity and gutters to facilitate flow of metal during forging.
* Manipulates handtools, such as files, stones, and emery cloth, to smooth surfaces.
* Visually and tactually inspects surfaces for flaws and smoothness.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to assemble metal furniture. Responsibilities include:
* Drills holes in parts, such as backrests, covers, and seats, using power drill and template.
* Fits parts together and fastens them temporarily with clamps and presses.
* Bolts, staples, or screws parts together, using handtools, such as pliers, wrenches, pneumatic screwdrivers, and staplers.
* Rivets parts together, using hand or pneumatic hammer.
* Inserts such parts as casters and scuff plates into holes or slots.
* Bends fastening devices and fits interlocking parts together with hammer or rubber mallet or by striking parts against floor or workbench.
* Applies cement to cushions and covers, using brush or spray gun, and joins parts by hand.
* Pulls and fastens drawstrings, wires, or springs to join precut upholstery covers to armrests, seats, and other parts, using handtools.
* Inserts drawers into slides and adjusts slides to fit drawer surfaces.
* Packs furniture for shipment.
* May bend metal parts, using bending machine.
* May be designated according to parts assembled as backrest assembler; seat assembler; or according to type of metal furniture assembled as art metal-chair assembler; office-chair assembler; metal table assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends bench lathe that removes burrs and polishes watch parts, such as pinions and wheels. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts part in chuck of lathe, using loupe and tweezers.
* Positions deburring tool on tool rest, starts lathe, and moves tool against part to smooth surface.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who promotes tenant welfare in low income public housing developments. Responsibilities include:
* Initiates and maintains liaison between local housing authority and voluntary and public agencies for development and managements of public housing developments.
* Facilitates establishment of constructive relationships between tenants and housing management, and among tenants.
* Secures social services, such as health, welfare, and education programs for improving family and community standards.
* Provides leadership to tenants in development of group activities, such as adult education and recreation.
* Refers families with personal problems to community resources.
* Cooperates with other organizations in development of understanding and interest among voluntary and public agencies participating in long range plans for urban improvement.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates cosmetic appliances from latex for use as artificial breasts, using dies, molded plastic forms, heat-sealing device, and airhose. Responsibilities include:
* Places molded form in die, according to size, and positions die on balance scale under spigot of latex gel container.
* Pushes lever to open spigot to fill molded form and to close spigot when mold reaches prescribed weight.
* Imprints mold size and other identification data onto plastic sheet used as backing for form, using printing device.
* Places imprinted backing in prescribed position over die containing gel-filled mold and fuses backing to molded form, using sealing device, to form inner shell.
* Inserts inner shell into outer plastic shell and fuses outer shell, using sealing device.
* Inflates shell to specified shape and firmness, using airhose, and seals opening, using heated rod.
* Tears excess plastic from edge of form.
Industry:Professional careers
