- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who constructs metal models of jewelry articles for use in making molds for casting jewelry parts. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out design on metal stock, using gravers.
* Cuts metal along markings and smooths edges, using handsaw and file.
* Examines and measures metal parts for conformance to design specifications on scale drawing.
* Hammers, carves, and scrapes rough model to produce specified relief design, using handtools.
* Drills holes in model, using drill press.
* Assembles and solders parts together.
* Polishes metal surfaces, using abrasive wheel.
* May make and sharpen tools.
* May modify design specifications to conform to production requirements.
* May construct preliminary model of wax or wire.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who adjusts passing hollow (crescent-shaped notch) and sizes jewel-hole slots of pallets, using holding fixture and burnishing wheel. Responsibilities include:
* Locates pallet over hole in fixture.
* Pushes pallet into stop against v-shaped lap to adjust passing hollow.
* Holds pallet against carbide burnisher to size jewel slots according to specified width and depth.
* Turns fixture during burnishing to round walls of jewel slot.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends battery of automatic machines that assemble shotgun shells and print load information on shell body. Responsibilities include:
* Starts machine and observes operation for jams in hoppers, feed tubes and channels, rotary feed plates, and loading and crimping mechanisms.
* Removes jammed shell components, using fingers or wire hook.
* Examines samples of completed shells at specified intervals to detect incomplete crimping, bulging wads, and blurred printing.
* Measures length, head thickness, and diameter, using fixed gauges.
* Cuts open shell with knife and weighs powder and shot charge on grain scale to ensure charges are within specified limits and wads are correctly placed within shells.
* Periodically obstructs flow of powder and wads to ensure that automatic warning devices are functioning.
* Communicates with hopper feeder and packing workers regarding operational difficulties, quality, quantity, and changeover of shells that corrective action may be taken, using intercom system.
* Cleans machines of powder, shot, and scrap, using brush and vacuum cleaner.
* Notifies loading-machine tool-setter of machine malfunctioning.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who smooths and polishes jewelry, such as charms, earrings, pins, rings, and bracelets, using polishing wheel. Responsibilities include:
* Selects polishing wheel and dressing compound according to type of metal to be polished and type of finish desired.
* Applies dressing compound or rouge to rotating wheel and moves article against wheel to remove surface blemishes and produce luster.
* May apply dressing compound and rub articles with cloth to remove discoloration and produce luster.
* May immerse jewelry in plating solution for specified time to coat jewelry with gold, silver, or other material.
* May polish areas of rings that are inaccessible to polishing wheel, using strip of abrasive polishing fabric.
* May buff jewelry findings with abrasive to produce grain effect (dull, granulated surface) and be designated grainer.
* When holding jewelry against lapping disk to smooth soldered joints, rough edges, and file marks, may be designated lapper.
* When holding jewelry against wire-brush wheel to remove stains, oxide coatings, solder flux, and to produce satin-finished surfaces, may be designated scratch brusher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who bends wire to form frames for mattress and box-spring assemblies, using wire-bending jig. Responsibilities include:
* Positions bending pegs on jig table according to specifications and tightens with wrench.
* Inserts one or more wires in holding device and depresses pedal to drive bending arms around pegs to bend wire to required angle or bends wire around pegs, using lever.
* Connects frame edge-wire ends with metal sleeve and rivet sleeve, using hammer and punch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out and stamps lettering and designs manually on tire molds, following blueprints. Responsibilities include:
* Positions and clamps mold on worktable manually or using hoist.
* Reads blueprint to obtain information, such as location and spacing of single letters, words, and designs.
* Applies blue pigment to mold and measures and marks reference lines with protractor, rulers, and scribers to indicate location of specified stampings.
* Positions stamps according to layout lines and hammers stamps to imprint letters and designs in mold in reverse order.
* Inspects impressions with template to verify uniform depth.
* May compute spacing of letters.
* May set up and operate pantograph machine to engrave letters and designs in molds.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends shaker machine that inserts small arms cartridges into specially holed plates.
* Positions filled plates on conveyor that immerses cartridge noses in lubricant to coat bullets, preventing lead deposits within weapon bore when fired.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who monitors energy use and develops, promotes, implements, and coordinates energy conservation program in county school district facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Compiles monthly energy report on consumption of electricity, fuel, oil, coal, lp gas, and water in school facilities, listing units consumed and costs.
* Sets up energy monitoring devices in school facilities that graphically plot energy usage and temperature changes during extended periods of time.
* Visits school facilities on regular basis to inspect monitoring devices and utilities usage.
* Determines areas in which energy conservation measures are needed, and compiles needs-assessment report of all school facilities.
* Monitors energy usage of extracurricular activities in school facilities.
* Coordinates energy conservation activities in areas with those of local, state, and federal conservation groups.
* Recommends energy conservation policies to board of education.
* Presents lectures on resource conservation at teachers' meetings and to civic groups.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who locates and marks centers, axes, and terminal points on ophthalmic lens blanks, draws reference lines, and writes specifications to guide workers who surface or finish lenses. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order to ascertain lens specifications.
* Examines lens blank to ensure freedom from defects and to verify color and size specifications.
* Positions lens blank to be surfaced on protractor and marks center, direction of cylinder axis, and position of reading lens segment.
* Mounts lens blank to be finished in optical centering and power determining instrument and adjusts dials to align and focus target.
* Compares dial readings with work order to ensure lens blank has been surfaced to meet power and axis specifications.
* Rejects defective lenses.
* Depresses marking device on instrument to mark optical center and horizontal axis of lens blank.
* Writes specifications on lens blank to guide lens fabricating workers.
* May be designated according to department worked in as bench-lay-out technician; surface-lay-out technician.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and adjusts hairspring assemblies to ensure horizontal and circular alignment of hairspring, using truing ii calipers, loupe, and watchmaker's tools. Responsibilities include:
* Mounts hairspring and balance wheel assembly between jaws of truing calipers.
* Turns wheel of caliper and examines spring to determine if center coils appear as perfect circles, using loupe.
* Bends inner coil of spring away from or toward collet to locate center of collet in center of spring and to correct errors resulting from faulty colleting of coil, using tweezers.
* Estimates space between collet and first inner coil to determine if space is within acceptable limits, and bends coil to correct errors, using tweezers.
* Examines plane of hairspring to determine if coils are parallel to plane of collet and raises or lowers individual coils to correct discrepancies, using tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
