- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who instructs parent of mentally- and physically-handicapped children in therapy techniques and behavior modification. Responsibilities include:
* Observes and plays with child and confers with child's parents and other professionals periodically to obtain information relating to child's mental and physical development.
* Evaluates child's responses to determine levels of child's physical and mental development.
* Determines parent's ability to comprehend and apply therapeutic and behavior modification techniques and parent's social and emotional needs to formulate teaching plan.
* Develops individual teaching plan covering self-help, motor, social, cognitive, and language skills development for parents to implement in home.
* Instructs parents individually or in groups in behavior modification, physical development, language development, and conceptual learning exercises and activities.
* Revises teaching plan to correspond with child's rate of development.
* Counsels parents and organizes groups of parents in similar situations to provide social and emotional support for parents.
* Refers parents and child to social service agencies and facilities for additional services and financial assistance.
* Consults and coordinates plans with other professionals.
* Teaches preschool subjects, such as limited vocabulary sign language and color recognition, to children capable of learning such subjects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends semiautomatic machine that daubs and sprays lacquer to base and mouth of cartridge cases to form waterproof seals around primer and bullet. Responsibilities include:
* Pulls lever to start machine and inserts cartridge cases into recesses in dial feedplate.
* Observes mechanisms that index, apply and remove excess lacquer, and eject cases.
* Notifies primer-waterproofing-machine adjuster of machine malfunction.
* Examines cases to ensure complete coverage of lacquered areas.
* May tend machine that inserts primer in case.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up charging, varnishing, foiling (tamping), and shaker machines, and assembly presses, used in charging and assembling primers for small arms ammunition. Responsibilities include:
* Removes, replaces, and adjusts such tools as punches, punch blocks, pins, dies, and die blocks, using handtools.
* Peens die mouths in foiling die block and reams die hole with hand reamer to sharpen edges, operates bench grinder to grind punches and dies for fitting into blocks, hammers charging and shaker plates on straightening plate to straighten them, and rotates bent punch in drill press to determine high spot and taps with metal block to straighten punch.
* Examines trays of primers for scratches, dents, and lack of anvil or foiling paper.
* Measures depth of priming mixture, tamping, and anvil in primer, or primer seating in battery cup, using fixed gauges.
* Turns setscrews to adjust punch or pin block height.
* May be limited to primer assembly presses only.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and adjusts punching dies in blanking and piercing machines used to fabricate printed circuit boards (pcb's). Responsibilities include:
* Reads job order to determine specified dies to be installed.
* Removes face block from shaft assembly and installs dies according to specifications, using handtools.
* Replaces face block and aligns shaft assembly with die.
* Tightens bolts to secure die base and to prevent movement during machine operation.
* Turns flywheel by hand to ensure complete compression and expansion cycles.
* Adjusts shaft height as required and locks shaft assembly in vertical position, using handtools.
* Starts and stops machine and observes operation to detect machine malfunctions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests ability of gas meters to accurately measure specified volume of gas at maximum and average cubic-feet-per-hour capacity and adjusts meters to correct excessive registration error. Responsibilities include:
* Connects hoses from prover to meter inlet and outlet and raises prover bell until prover gauge registers zero.
* Turns valve to allow measured amount of air or gas to pass through meter at specified flow-rate.
* Closes valve and compares registration on meter gauge.
* Screws fitting into meter outlet to retard flow of gas and repeats test.
* Turns setscrews to adjust meter and repeats test until meter registration is within specified limits according to prover and meter gas readings.
* Analyzes test results to determine cause of persistent registration errors.
* Segregates meters requiring repair.
* Records test results and date on meter card.
* May maintain temperature of oil used as gas seal in prover within specified limits to ensure accurate and uniform test readings.
* May test ability of flowmeters to accurately measure gas and liquid and be designated flowmeter test and certification technician.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles and repairs silverware, such as coffee pots, tea sets, and trays. Responsibilities include:
* Anneals workpiece in gas oven for prescribed time to soften metal for reworking.
* Wires parts, such as legs, spouts, and handles, to body to prepare unit for soldering.
* Solders parts together and fills in holes and cracks with silver solder, using gas torch.
* Hammers out deformations and levels and sets bottoms, using dollies, hammers, and tracing punches.
* Shapes and straightens damaged legs, lids, and spouts with pliers.
* Restores dented embossing on articles, using hammers and punches.
* Pierces and cuts open design in ornamentation, using hand drill and scroll saw.
* Glues plastic separators to handles of coffee and teapots.
* May operate lathe to form articles of silverware out of silver or plated sheet, according to sketches.
* May hammer metal into shape and solder seams to make handles and spouts.
* May work with metals other than silver, such as pewter, brass, chromium, and nickel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who removes springs from conveyor belt and inspects them for defects, such as missing or bent leaves, clips, and bushings, and excessive spacing between leaves. Responsibilities include:
* Measures spring dimensions to verify specifications, using rule and micrometer.
* Marks spring to indicate defects, using crayon.
* Notifies supervisor when springs indicate specified types and quantity of defects that require rework.
* Separates and stacks defective and acceptable springs.
* Straightens defective springs, using hammer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts incoming mail for distribution and dispatches outgoing mail. Responsibilities include:
* Opens envelopes by hand or machine.
* Stamps date and time of receipt on incoming mail.
* Sorts mail according to destination and type, such as returned letters, adjustments, bills, orders, and payments.
* Readdresses undeliverable mail bearing incomplete or incorrect address.
* Examines outgoing mail for appearance and seals envelopes by hand or machine.
* Stamps outgoing mail by hand or with postage meter.
* May fold letters or circulars and insert in envelopes (folding-machine operator ).
* May distribute and collect mail.
* May weigh mail to determine that postage is correct.
* May keep record of registered mail.
* May address mail, using addressing machine (addressing-machine operator ).
* May be designated according to type of mail handled as Mail Clerk, Bills.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who constructs and repairs appliances for straightening teeth according to orthodontist's prescription. Responsibilities include:
* Shapes, grinds, polishes, carves, and assembles metal and plastic appliances, such as retainers, tooth bands, and positioners, using spatula, pliers, soldering torch, and electric grinders and polishers.
* Tests appliance for conformance to specifications, using articulator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who installs slide locks in drawers of metal office furniture, using power drill to cut holes and handtools to screw parts in place.
Industry:Professional careers
