- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who operates machine to grind decorative grooves in steel knife blades. Responsibilities include:
* Marks groove length of blade according to bench marks, using chalk.
* Places tip of blade under rotating abrasive wheel and presses blade against wheel to grind groove in blade.
* Examines groove in blade for conformance to specified depth and width and dresses abrasive wheel, using handstone.
* Turns stop nuts to adjust roll and guide according to width of blade and replaces worn abrasive wheel, using wrenches.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rough-finishes stamping-die-member surfaces, using abrasives and abrading handtools. Responsibilities include:
* Lifts and positions die member on bench manually or with hoist.
* Brushes blue pigment on ridges and grooves left by milling operation.
* Grinds ridges down until only traces of pigment are visible at bottom of grooves.
* Uses variety of files, stones, and abrasive cloths and papers to shape and smooth die member.
* May repair punch and die sets, using bench lathe, portable grinder, and polisher, and abrasive handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who clips assembled leaf springs together by any of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Inserts bolt through end holes in u-shaped clip and tightens nut, using impact wrench.
* (2) Inserts bolt through hole in end of spring and positions spring and clip in holding device.
* Hammers clip around spring to align hole in clip over bolt.
* Tightens nut on bolt, using impact wrench.
* (3) Installs holding die and aligns spring end over clip.
* Starts press that automatically wraps clip around spring.
* Reams rough ends from main-leaf eyes, using drill press.
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 attaches cap jewel plate to train and balance bridges. Responsibilities include:
* Places bridge in holding fixture and positions cap jewel plate over bridge, aligning cap jewel with hole in bridge.
* Inserts minute screw into hole with tweezers and screws plate to bridge.
* Observes minute parts with loupe.
* May insert screw in hole of balance bridge to facilitate subsequent fastening of hairspring stud.
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 operates machine to bevel printed circuit board (pcb) connectors. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work order to determine specified angle and depth of bevel.
* Turns knobs to adjust machine cutting tool.
* Slides pcb along guide over cutting tool to bevel pcb connector.
* Views beveled edge of sample board connector through magnifying scope to verify angle and depth of cut meet company specifications.
* Operates machine to bevel all connector edges.
* Inspects pcb's to detect rough edges, dirty surfaces, and closed holes.
* Smooths rough edges, using hand file.
* Cleans dust and deposits from pcb, using airhose, toothbrush, or rag.
* Scrapes excess plating from holes, using utility knife.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who punches flashing from molded plastic contact lenses, using handpress. Responsibilities include:
* Places compartmentalized box under openings in press-holding fixture to catch lens after punching.
* Positions lens in holding fixture and pulls lever to lower hollow punch which cuts flashing from lens.
* Repeats punching, allowing only lenses of same specifications to fall in same compartment.
* Labels and routes lenses in envelopes or boxes to stockroom or other work stations.
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 fits, assembles, and hand finishes castings and parts in making of metal foundry patterns, using handtools and analyzing specifications according to knowledge of pattern-making methods. Responsibilities include:
* Studies blueprint of part to be cast, computes dimensions, and plans sequence of operations.
* Dresses casting down to specified dimensions, using files, scrapers, powered hand grinders, and drill press.
* Assembles pattern, using handtools and bolts, screws, and other fasteners.
* Verifies conformance of pattern dimensions to specifications, using templates and measuring instruments, such as scale, calipers, and micrometer.
* May make templates for own use in inspecting finished surfaces.
* May operate welding equipment in assembling pattern.
Industry:Professional careers
