- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who designs surgical belts and supports, fabricates prototype, and makes production patterns. Responsibilities include:
* Draws full-size outline of support on paper according to specifications, body measurements, and anatomical application of support, using mechanical drawing instruments.
* Cuts drawing into parts to make patterns, marks around patterns on specified cloth, and cuts cloth on marks, using scissors or electrically powered knife.
* Sews pieces together, using any combination of single- two-, three- and four-needle, zigzag, square-stitch, and buttonhole sewing machines.
* Operates eyelet, hook-and-eye, and caps-and-studs machines to attach specified fasteners to supports.
* Inspects completed sample and makes alterations requested by management.
* Writes specifications for materials, straps, stays, fasteners, adjustments, and sizes to be produced.
* Traces patterns on fiberboard or cardboard and cuts out patterns to be used as master patterns.
* Enlarges and reduces master patterns to make patterns for range of sizes to be produced.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who carves spectacle nose pieces of celluloid, plastics, and other material, using rotary spindle carving tool. Responsibilities include:
* Measures designated sample nose piece to determine dimensional specifications, using precision measuring instruments.
* Mounts specified cutting tool in machine chuck, using handtools.
* Starts machine and holds and turns nose piece blank against cutting tool to fabricate nose piece according to specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks involved in manufacture of tin cans. Responsibilities include:
* Opens bales of tinplate, using cutters.
* Removes rust spots, oil stains, or other surface accumulations, from sheets of tinplate, using steel wool, scouring powder, or cloths soaked in alcohol.
* Straightens bent or dented tinplate with mallet.
* Places cans and lids on paint racks, prior to painting process and removes painted items from racks for shipping.
* Supplies packing-line workers with packing materials.
* Places units, such as handles and cleats on flux pads and positions nozzles and solder strips on cans on conveyors that pass into ovens used to join items to cans.
* Packs cans or lids in cardboard containers by hand or using packing machine, or bulk-packs cans in railroad cars or transport trucks with handtools.
* Lines railroad cars or trucks with paper and installs bulkheads for bulk loading.
* Sorts cans according to size and type.
* Feeds flattened can bodies through reforming machine to straighten them.
* Seals containers with tape, staples, and bands or feeds filled containers through glue machine.
* Repairs, relabels, and collapses used cartons for subsequent use.
* Wraps pallet loads of cans with cardboard and paper.
* Stacks, moves, or loads cans, containers, materials, and supplies around areas of plant by hand, truck, or cart.
* May inspect units for obvious defects and discard defective items.
* May be designated according to work assigned as bag sealer; can-reforming-machine operator; can stacker; cleaner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles head and foot sections of metal bedstead. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts upright fillers in holes in bedpost and in holes in cross filler.
* Springs legs of frame apart and inserts ends of cross filler into holes in legs.
* Fits molding to bedpost and drives it into grooves in bedpost with mallet.
* Forces ends of panel into molding, bottom of panel into cross molding, and ends of cross molding into bedpost, using mallet.
* May cut panel from stock, using power shear.
* May bend molding to shape by use of power press.
* May assemble safety rails and attach motors, pulleys, and cables to bed frame to assemble electric hospital beds.
* May be designated according to section of bed assembled as foot-piece assembler; head-piece assembler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and tests fire extinguishers in repair shops and in establishments, such as factories, homes, garages, and office buildings, using handtools and hydrostatic test equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Dismantles extinguisher and examines tubings, horns, head gaskets, cutter discs, and other parts for defects.
* Replaces worn or damaged parts, using handtools.
* Cleans extinguishers and recharges them with materials, such as soda water and sulfuric acid, carbon tetrachloride, nitrogen, or patented solutions.
* Tests extinguishers for conformity with legal specifications, using hydrostatic test equipment.
* May install cabinets and brackets to hold extinguishers.
* May sell fire extinguishers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests and inspects compressed air or oxygen regulators to detect air leaks. Responsibilities include:
* Clamps regulator unit into vise on stage above water tank and attaches compressed airhose to intake ports of regulator.
* Varies pressure of air flowing into regulator, using manual control, and turns regulator handles to determine that valves and pistons are functioning properly.
* Lowers regulator into tank of water, using power-driven foot pedal.
* Alters flow of air passing through unit and reads pressure gauges to determine points of high and low air release speeds.
* Inspects unit for air leaks, using brush to remove normal submersion bubbles.
* Releases foot pedal to raise regulator from water tank.
* Unclamps unit and places unit in tray.
* Marks malfunctioning areas of defective units, utilizing knowledge of components.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts rollers for roller bearings into groups according to diameter or length. Responsibilities include:
* Sets gauge slots of machine that automatically ejects off-size rollers, using micrometers and gauges.
* Feeds rollers into machine hopper.
* Examines rollers for defects, such as marks, scratches, or other blemishes.
* Measures bearing retainer for conformance to specification, using height gauge.
* Fits bearings into retainer rings and packs roller bearings in boxes for shipment.
* May sort inner and outer rings of ball bearing, according to size, using gauges.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests assembled electronic scale components to detect missing parts, loose wires, and defective solder joints, using oscilloscope and voltmeter.
* Disassembles and repairs or replaces parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects tinplate for defects and for conformance to specified weight, size, and gauge, and classifies material according to quality. Responsibilities include:
* Examines sheets for defects, such as insufficient coating, holes, dirt, bows, or twists.
* Wipes grease from sheets with cloth and straightens bent corners with handtool.
* Measures gauge of sheets, using micrometers, and compares measurements with customer specifications.
* Weighs sheets on scale.
* Sorts sheets according to defects found and places sheets in piles.
* Marks identifying information on piles with eraser.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects chemically treated metallic and nonmetallic parts and assemblies under fluorescent or black lighting for defects, such as fissures, weld breaks, or fractures, using magnetic particle or fluid penetrant inspection processes and equipment, using either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Immerses or sprays ferrous magnetic metal parts with iron oxide solution.
* Positions parts between electrodes of magnetic testing equipment and activates switch to induce magnetic field that attracts and accumulates iron oxide particles at defective points.
* (2) Immerses or sprays nonmagnetic metal or nonmetallic parts with fluid penetrant solution.
* Rinses excess solution from parts, and dries parts in oven.
* Examines parts under fluorescent or black lighting to detect defects at or near part surfaces indicated by thick deposits of iron oxide particles or reflection of penetrant solutions.
* Removes surface defects, using handtools, power tools, or abrasive solutions, or marks part defects for repair or discard depending on nature and extent of defects.
* Notifies supervisor of defective processing of parts or materials.
* May be designated by inspection process involved as magnetic particle inspector; penetrant inspector.
Industry:Professional careers
