- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who sets precious, semiprecious, or ornamental stones in rings, earrings, bracelets, brooches, metal optical frames, and other jeweled items, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Places item in vise.
* Cuts and files setting to accommodate stones, using files, chisels, and hand or electric drills.
* Positions stone in setting and fixes in place by pressing prongs around stone, by raising retaining metal ridge around stone, or by tapping edges of setting with setting tool and hammer, forcing metal against stone.
* Smooths edges, using emery file and pointed steel tool.
* Examines union of stone and setting, using magnifying glass.
* May drill holes in settings preparatory to setting stones in piece.
* May replace stones in rings.
* May be designated according to stone set as diamond setter or according to item worked on as metal optical frames stone setter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests and calibrates controlling, indicating, and measuring instruments and devices, such as monochromators, pressure regulators, tachometers, temperature controls, and thermometers, to ensure specified operating performance, using handtools, testing and calibrating instruments and equipment, and precision measuring instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Reads quality control manual and testing specifications to obtain data to test or calibrate specific devices.
* Selects and installs accessories, such as adapters, indicating gauges, or holding devices on test or calibration fixture, and connects instrument or device to fixture, according to specifications, using handtools.
* Sets controls to regulate factors, such as current flow, timing cycle, pressure, temperature, or vacuum, according to specifications, and activates test or calibration equipment.
* Observes readings on meters and gauges, and other displays and performance of device or instrument to identify functional defects and determine calibration requirements.
* Adjusts calibration mechanisms to obtain specified operational performance of device or instrument, using handtools and precision measuring and calibrating instruments and equipment.
* Applies sealing compound on calibration mechanism to prevent readjustment of settings and loss of calibration.
* Rejects malfunctioning devices and routes devices to specified department for rework or salvaging of parts.
* May disassemble instrument or device to determine cause of defective operation and notify supervisory personnel of findings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends power press that forces primer anvils into loaded primer cups to form complete primers for small arms cartridges. Responsibilities include:
* Aligns specially holed plate containing anvils over matching plate of loaded primer cups.
* Positions assembled plates in holding fixture, pulls lever to lock plates in place on feed table, and starts machine.
* Examines assembly for malformations, discolorations, and other defects.
* May seat anvils, using hand-operated toggle press.
* May tend shaker machine that fills plates with primer components.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and cleans cigarette lighters, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Disassembles lighter and adjusts or replaces parts, such as spark wheels, injector valves, and clutch gears, using handtools.
* Removes cotton and defective wick from lighter, inserts new wick, and repacks cotton, using tweezers and picks.
* Immerses lighters in solution to clean them.
* Applies polish to lighters and refinishes surfaces, using hand polisher.
* Inserts flint and fills lighter with fluid or gas.
* May immerse butane lighters in specified solution to detect leaks.
* May sell lighters to customers.
* May compute charges for repairs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes excess metal from inside rim of balance wheel, using radius file. Responsibilities include:
* Positions wheel in slot of work jig filing plate.
* Files excess metal between arm and inside rim of wheel to obtain specified balance of wheel, using file and loupe.
* Inspects wheels to ensure conformance to specifications.
* Shapes files on emery wheel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans, deburrs, polishes, or grinds items of metal, plastic, or rubber, using handtools or powered equipment, performing any combination of following tasks. Responsibilities include:
* Scrapes or rubs parts with file, wire brush, or buffing cloth.
* Holds part against buffing or grinding wheel.
* Deburrs or polishes parts, using portable grinder, chipping hammer, buffer, deburring tool, or hand pick.
* Mounts part on revolving spindle or chuck and holds or moves tools, such as file, abrasive stone, or cloth against workpiece to file, grind, polish, or buff surface.
* Cleans interior surfaces of holes, using reamer.
* Changes tools on powered equipment.
* Applies abrasive compound, wax, or other dressing to facilitate cleaning or polishing operation.
* May be known according to process performed as buffer ii; burrer; axle burrer-marker; top-edge beveler; wire brusher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates sound-testing equipment to detect defects in machinery ball bearing assemblies and diagnoses causes of defects. Responsibilities include:
* Turns dials on equipment to specified setting.
* Slides bearing on adapter arm and starts machine to rotate inner ring of bearing.
* Listens through headphones to detect sounds that indicate mechanical defect in bearing and to determine probable cause of defect.
* Separates defective bearings and sorts bearings for scrap or salvage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests, calibrates, and adjusts aneroid barometers to obtain specified performance, using handtools and test equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Places barometer in vacuum chamber and connects barometer to master barometer (mercurial or electronic).
* Starts vacuum pump to decrease atmospheric pressure in vacuum chamber, and records variances of readings between aneroid and master barometer at different atmospheric pressures, manually or using computer.
* Calculates adjustments required and calibrates barometer, using handtools, or automatically calibrates barometer to specifications, using computer.
* Tests calibrated barometer to ensure calibration conforms to master barometer.
* Prepares and maintains manual or computerized test and calibration records.
* May test calibration of aneroid barometers, using radio frequency signals recorded on tape.
* May disassemble, inspect, and replace defective barometer parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who ties or bolts moving parts of scales, prior to packing and shipping, to prevent damage. Responsibilities include:
* Disconnects and secures mechanisms with screws and bolts at specified points, using handtools.
* Lifts levers to insert felt pads between pivots and thrusts.
* Ties installation instruction tags to parts.
* May package scales.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects parts, subassemblies, and assembled photographic apparatus, such as still and motion picture cameras, magazines, enlargers, flash units, and film developing machines for conformance to verbal and diagrammatic specifications, using precision measuring and testing instruments. Responsibilities include:
* Examines blueprints, wiring diagrams, and other specifications to determine parts, dimensions, and tolerances required.
* Examines equipment for defects, such as missing parts, incorrect serial numbers, flaws in castings, and light leakage.
* Measures parts to ensure conformance to dimensional specifications, using micrometers, gauges, rules, and other precision measuring instruments.
* Tests functioning of electronic components, using test instruments, such as voltmeters, oscilloscopes, and signal generators.
* Trips camera shutters to verify timing, using timing device.
* Measures focal distance of lenses, using depth micrometer or collimator.
* Traces electrical wiring and examines connections to detect assembly defects and tests electrical circuits for continuity, using wire diagrams and continuity meter.
* Examines test film to detect faulty operation of cameras, using projector, viewing screen, and hand lens.
* Records inspection data and marks or stamps inspection tag to indicate acceptance or rejection of equipment inspected.
Industry:Professional careers
