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Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who this group includes occupations, not elsewhere classified, concerned with fabricating naval, aircraft, antiaircraft, tank, coast, and field artillery having a bore of over 30mm; specialized components for tanks; ammunition; and related products.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, lays out, fabricates, and assembles aircraft upholstery, interior trim, soundproofing, insulating, and related items, to develop prototype parts to verify or modify engineering designs, using precision instruments, handtools, power tools, and shop equipment. Responsibilities include: * Reads and interprets blueprints, sketches, and engineering information to determine design specifications. * Plans location and arrangement of parts and assemblies, considering space requirements in aircraft. * Lays out dimensions of parts on assorted materials, such as plastic, wood, or cardboard, to develop template for fabricating parts, using measuring and marking instruments. * Cuts template to size, using saw, shears, or power cutters. * Fabricates and assembles sample parts from assorted fabrics, plastics, and other trim materials, utilizing upholstery craft skills, using templates, handtools, and shop equipment, such as sewing machines, snap fasteners, and power cutters. * Installs completed parts and assemblies in aircraft mockup to verify accuracy of fit, using handtools and power tools. * Modifies templates as required prior to releasing pattern to production. * Collaborates with engineering, tooling, production, and other personnel to resolve developmental, assembly, and installation problems.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that shapes (points) front end of steel-jacketed bullets, inserts and seats lead slugs, shapes (bases) rear of bullets, and sizes external diameter, preparatory to insertion in brass cases to form completed cartridges. Responsibilities include: * Places bullet jackets, containing loose slugs, point downward in dial feed stations, or observes operation of automatic machine, clearing clogged feed lines, filling dial feed stations, and pressing jackets firmly into holes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cements optical elements together to form units which have specific optical properties. Responsibilities include: * Cleans elements, using solvent, tissue, brush, and compressed air device. * Holds elements together to verify fit. * Applies cement to element surfaces, using glass rod. * Presses and rotates elements together to remove air pockets and distribute cement evenly over joined surfaces. * Centers and clamps elements together. * Places elements in curing oven for specified period.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs institutional housekeeping program to ensure clean, orderly, and attractive conditions of establishment. Responsibilities include: * Establishes standards and procedures for work of housekeeping staff, and plans work schedules to ensure adequate service. * Inspects and evaluates physical condition of establishment, and submits to management recommendations for painting, repairs, furnishings, relocation of equipment, and reallocation of space. * Periodically inventories supplies and equipment. * Reads trade journals to keep informed of new and improved cleaning methods, products, supplies, and equipment. * Organizes and directs departmental training programs, resolves personnel problems, hires new employees, and evaluates employees performance and working relationship. * Maintains records and prepares periodic activity and personnel reports for review by management. * Coordinates activities with those of other departments. * May select and purchase new furnishings. * May evaluate records to forecast department personnel requirements, and to prepare budget. * May perform cleaning duties in cases of emergency or staff shortage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grinds and chips workpiece to groove, bevel, round, or straighten edges or remove excess stock from metal as specified by drawings, job orders, or guidelines or to remove defects, such as shrink cracks and holes, using portable grinders, chipping hammers, pedestal grinders, and hand files. Responsibilities include: * Positions workpiece manually or by using jib of crane. * Inserts selected grinding wheel or cutting chisel into portable grinder or power hammer. * Positions and manually guides tool along specified guidelines on edge or surface of workpiece. * Inspects work, using rule, straightedge, or template. * Grinds portable parts on pedestal grinder. * Removes sharp edges or burrs, using hand file. * Grinds, chips, or brushes off excess weld, splatter, and rust to improve appearance of workpiece. * Sharpens chisels and dresses grinding wheels, using grinder and wheel dresser. * May cut excess metal from workpiece, using acetylene torch. * May climb large assemblies to remove metal from improperly fabricated parts at direction of fitter i or welder-fitter. * May be designated according to tool used as chipper i; grinder ii.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in assembling, repairing, remodeling, and maintaining photographing, projecting, sound, and related motion-picture equipment. Responsibilities include: * Inspects malfunctioning equipment to determine extent of work to be performed and directs individuals or groups to make repairs or modifications. * Trains new workers in equipment assembly and maintenance. * May assign repair crews to motion picture production units. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends jigging machines that grind pivots of watch parts to specified lengths. Responsibilities include: * Pulls spindle handle to open spindle, inserts pinion with tweezers, and releases handle to force pinion into place in chuck. * Depresses pedal to start rotating grinding wheel across end of pivot to grind pivot to specified size. * Measures pinions to ensure specified lengths, using loupe and precision upright gauge.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out and cuts optical glass to specified dimensions and weight for molding into lens blanks, using templates, balance scale, and glass cutting tool. Responsibilities include: * Examines optical glass stock or molded blanks for defects, such as bubbles, cracks, and scratches, and rejects defective stock. * Weighs glass stock to facilitate cutting to specified weight, using balance scale. * Traces outline according to dimension specifications, using template. * Cuts glass according to pattern, using glass cutter. * Grinds rough edges from blank, using rotating grindstone.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles parts of watch winding and setting mechanism to pillar plate: positions clutch lever, clutch-lever spring, setting wheel, and minute wheel on plate, using loupe and tweezers. * Places yoke over parts, and secures yoke with screws. * May oil clutch and winding pinion, using oil-filled hypodermic.
Industry:Professional careers