- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who repairs surface defects in battery-operated clocks for motor vehicles, using handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Examines rejected clock for defects, such as scratched or broken lens, damaged backplate, and bent or missing hands.
* Removes and replaces defective parts, using handtools, such as punch, tweezers, staking tool, and screwdriver.
* Places repaired clock in tray for retiming.
* Records quantity and type of clocks repaired.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines appliance timers for surface defects and sets timers preparatory to testing. Responsibilities include:
* Examines timers for defects, such as scratched dials, dents, and broken or missing parts.
* Places defective timers in carton for repair.
* Plugs test light into timer and turns dial of timer to specified setting.
* Places timer on vertical rack for testing and connects timer cord to electrical outlet.
* Flips switch of timer to verify that test light burns and that timer functions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in charging tracer bullets with powder and shaping them to finished dimensions. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews new workers and assigns them to work commensurate with their qualifications.
* Assigns more experienced workers to train new workers.
* Makes recommendations for promotion or dismissal of workers.
* Directs workers engaged in repair of machines and other equipment.
* Coordinates work of department with that of related departments.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following repetitive tasks on assembly line to mass produce small products, such as ball bearings, automobile door locking units, speedometers, condensers, distributors, ignition coils, drafting table subassemblies, or carburetors. Responsibilities include:
* Positions parts in specified relationship to each other, using hands, tweezers, or tongs.
* Bolts, screws, clips, cements, or otherwise fastens parts together by hand or using handtools or portable powered tools.
* Frequently works at bench as member of assembly group assembling one or two specific parts and passing unit to another worker.
* Loads and unloads previously setup machines, such as arbor presses, drill presses, taps, spot-welding machines, riveting machines, milling machines, or broaches, to perform fastening, force fitting, or light metal-cutting operation on assembly line.
* May be assigned to different work stations as production needs require or shift from one station to another to reduce fatigue factor.
* May be known according to product assembled.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles, inspects, and adjusts watch train (center, third, fourth, and escape wheels with pinions), using watchmaker's tools, loupe, and holding fixture. Responsibilities include:
* Examines parts to ensure freedom from defects, using loupe.
* Positions pillar plate in holding fixture and inserts pivots of wheel staffs into holes drilled in pillar plate jewels, using tweezers.
* Positions train bridge over wheels, aligns pivots with jewels in bridge, and screws bridge to pillar plate, using tweezers and screwdriver.
* Inspects assembled watch train for meshing of wheels and pinions and endshake (vertical play) of wheels, using tweezers and loupe.
* Moves jeweled bearings specified distance to correct deficient endshake, using micrometer and hand staking tool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that fills cavities of aluminum extrusions with cement to form thermal-conduction barriers for use in manufacturing windows and doors. Responsibilities include:
* Moves machine controls to regulate extrusion feed rate and speed of cement flow.
* Adjusts drive wheels, pressure rollers, and cement needle according to extrusion size and cavity to be filled, using wrenches.
* Starts machine that conveys extrusion on rollers through machine for filling operation.
* Observes operation to ensure cavity filling meets company standards.
* Readjusts settings when cavity filling falls below specifications.
* Stacks filled extrusions discharged from machine into cart with assistance from coworker.
* Places separator blocks and sticks between extrusion layers to prevent sticking and facilitate cement drying.
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 examines clock and watch dials for surface and mechanical defects, using loupe, gauges, and pick. Responsibilities include:
* Examines dials for surface defects, such as scratches, finger marks, double lines in printing of numerals, and defective lacquer coating, using loupe.
* Turns movement, dial side down, to determine if watch hands slip.
* Inspects hands to determine if they are aligned with numerals, are specified distances apart, and that they do not touch dial or crystal, using gauges.
* Moves second hand to ascertain if hand slips on arbor, using pick.
* Inspects dials for centering of center and second holes, using gauges.
* May bake dials in oven for specified time to harden lacquer coating.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls vacuum coating equipment to coat optical elements with chemical or metal film to alter reflective properties of elements. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order to ascertain thickness of optical element and type coating material specified.
* Installs heating filament in coating machine according to type coating applied, using screwdriver.
* Fills crucible with coating material and positions crucible under heating filament.
* Secures optical element in jig and centers jig in vacuum chamber of machine to ensure uniform coating of optical surface.
* Places dome-shaped lid (vacuum bell) over jig or lowers lid equipped with window depending upon machine used.
* Starts machine that creates vacuum and releases chemicals or metal to form coating on optical element by process of sublimation or atomization.
* Observes changing colors of element through vacuum bell or through window in lid to determine when element is coated to specifications, or reads exposure meter to determine coating thickness.
* Applies and removes strip of cellophane to test adherence of coating to optical element.
* May immerse elements in chemical solution to clean elements.
* May operate ultrasonic vibrator to clean element.
* May inspect optical elements prior to coating to detect defects, such as blemishes, abrasions, and rough edges, using microscope.
* May cement optical elements together to form multiple laminated elements.
* May spray emulsion on lens preparatory to coating.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine tools to fabricate optical elements and systems, applying knowledge of layout and machining techniques and procedures, shop mathematics, and properties of optical and abrasive materials. Responsibilities include:
* Studies work order, blueprints, and sketches to formulate machining plans and sequences.
* Measures and marks dimensions and reference points to lay out stock for machining.
* Selects premixed compounds or mixes grinding, polishing, and holding compounds according to formula.
* Mounts workpiece on holding fixture, using adhesive, friction, or vacuum.
* Mounts and secures workpiece and tooling in machines.
* Operates machines, such as saws, lathes, grinders, milling machines, generators, polishers, and edgers to fabricate optics, fixtures, tools, and mountings of specified sizes and shapes.
* Grinds and polishes optics, using handtools, as required.
* Measures and tests optics, using precision measuring and testing instruments.
* May develop specifications and drawings from verbal description.
* May perform experimental work and research to develop new production methods and procedures applying shop mathematics and knowledge of production techniques.
* May train and direct other workers.
Industry:Professional careers
