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A professional who tends machine that loads small arms cartridges with powder and inserts bullets. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts bullets in holes of dial feed plate and observes cartridge case feed lines for tipped and inverted cases.
* Notifies loading-unit tool-setter of machine malfunction.
* Measures samples of loaded cartridges for conformance to specifications, using go-not-go gauges.
* May replenish powder supply.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who adjusts position of pallet stones to extend each stone specified amount from face of holding recess, using positioning fixture. Responsibilities include:
* Fits pallet in fixture beneath binocular microscope.
* Examines pallet stones through microscope and inserts needle between base of stones and holding recess to force stones upward from recess.
* Swings fork end of pallet against positioning pins of fixture to force stones specified distance into recess.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who this division includes occupations concerned with assembling, fabricating, and repairing scientific, engineering, and medical equipment, photographic and optical goods, clocks and watches, and related products including fabrication of precision optical and ophthalmic lenses, using specialized handtools and bench-type machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who forms ring blank into circular shape, using ring mandrel and rawhide mallet. Responsibilities include:
* Files ends of ring blank smooth and square and places blank in ring bending device.
* Pulls lever to bend blank into semicircle.
* Places blank on mandrel and hammers blank into circular shape, using rawhide mallet.
* Slides ring over sizing (measuring) mandrel to verify conformity to specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of land development company and negotiates with representatives of real estate, private enterprise and industrial organizations, and community leaders to acquire and develop land. Responsibilities include:
* Supervises staff engaged in such activities as preparing appraisal reports on available land, preparing feasibility studies, showing availability and quality of water resources, mineral deposits, electric power, and labor supply.
* Prepares or directs preparation of statistical abstracts to reveal trends in tax rates in given communities, and proportion of total work force having specified skills.
* Plans, oversees, and directs activities of field staff engaged in sampling mineral deposits, surveying land boundaries, and testing water supply to determine optimum usage of land.
* Negotiates with community, business, and public utility representatives to eliminate obstacles to land purchase, development, sale, or lease.
* Negotiates mortgage loans.
* Directs collection and auditing of funds from sale or lease of property.
* May perform duties of real-estate agent .
* May cooperate with representatives of public utilities, universities, and other groups to coordinate research activities.
* May work for railroad and specialize in industrial development and be designated Manager, Industrial Development.
* May work for government and be designated Property Manager.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that cuts materials, such as braid, cardboard, cloth, felt, leather, ribbon, roofing paper, strands of wire, or tape to specified dimensions, by any of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Spaces guide or stop gauge along calibrated scale of cutting table according to length of cut specified and tightens setscrew to secure guide or gauge in position.
* Stacks single or multiple layers of material on cutting table with edges against stop gauge or pulls material across cutting table to guide.
* Lowers lever-type blade by hand to cut material.
* (2) Spaces stop gauge along calibrated scale, according to length of cut specified, and tightens setscrew to secure gauge in position.
* Places single or multiple layers of material on bed of machine with edges against stop gauge or moves lever to advance material in bed of machine against stop gauge.
* Depresses pedal to activate lever-type-blade that lowers and cuts material.
* May tend machine that trims excess material or irregular edges from variety of materials or garment and shoe parts.
* (3) Mounts roll of material on shaft or positions container of flat folded material at feed end of machine.
* Threads end of material through guides and automatic feeding device.
* Turns setscrew to regulate feeding device according to length of cut specified.
* Starts machine that automatically feeds material under lever-type blade and cuts material into lengths.
* Stacks lengths of material on table or in handtruck.
* May change blade, using handtools.
* When cutting materials for use in making rubber stamp pads, is designated guillotine operator.
* When trimming feathers for use in making shuttlecocks, is designated shuttlecock-feather trimmer.
* May be designated according to material or article cut or trimmed as belt-loop cutter; collar trimmer; sample cutter.
* May be designated: band cutter; belt cutter; braid cutter; elastic cutter; foil cutter; hose-suspender cutter; label cutter; piping blocker; ribbon cutter; tape cutter; toppiece chopper.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes burrs from rims, edges, and recesses of watch parts, such as pillar plates and barrel bridges, using burring tool.
* Inspects parts to ensure removal of burrs, using loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who places gold strips between sheets of plastic or skin to form packets (stacks) for beating by goldbeater.
* May be designated shoder filler when forming packet for second beating, or mold filler when forming packet for third beating.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes surface defects, such as burrs and pits, from metal furniture parts and polishes surface. Responsibilities include:
* Positions parts in holding device and removes surface defects with hand sanding machine, sandpaper, or file.
* Polishes surface to smooth finish, using such materials as cleaning powder, pumice, or steel wool.
* Wipes surface clean with cloth and stacks finished parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who holds and turns silverware, such as bowls, tea sets, trays, or flatware, against grease-coated cloth wheel or leather belt to impart specified finish.
* May remove scratches, spots, or blemishes with pumice stone.
* May bolt layers of precut cloth onto spindle and form into buff of desired shape by holding rakelike handtool against rotating cloth.
* May buff silverware to specified final finish, using soft cloth buffing wheel and fine grained rouge or buffing compound and be designated finisher.
Industry:Professional careers
