- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in assembling electronic, electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical instruments, devices, subassemblies, and component parts. Responsibilities include:
* Reads work orders, production schedules, product specifications, and parts lists to determine work priorities and material requirements, such as fixtures, tools, supplies, and equipment.
* Assigns duties to workers.
* Sets up, or directs other workers to set up, machines and equipment at workstations, such as drill presses, tappers, and riveters.
* Observes assembly operations and examines product to ensure conformance to specifications, utilizing knowledge of assembly methods and procedures and established quality control standards.
* Performs other tasks as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches pallet assembly to pillar plate: places pallet arbor into hole in jewel of pillar plate.
* Places pallet bridge over pallet, aligns hole in jewel with pallet staff, and secures bridge to form assembly, using tweezers, loupe, and screwdriver.
* Moves pallet up and down, using tweezers, to test and adjust endshake (vertical movement) and estimates movement within acceptable limits.
* May disassemble pallet and bridge and move pallet bridge jewel to adjust endshake, using hand-operated press.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends drill press that drills holes in metal collars (collets) prior to assembly with watch escapement movement.
* Positions collets on bed of drill press, using tweezers.
* Lowers revolving drill to bore and countersink hole in collets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shapes hammers used to strike bells in alarm clocks, using holding fixture. Responsibilities include:
* Fits ends of hammers into holding fixture.
* Bends arms to required shape by hand.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects watch balance wheels to verify that rim lies in single plane and that plane is perpendicular to staff axis, using truing ii caliper, tweezers, and loupe.
* Mounts balance wheel and staff between jaws of truing calipers, using tweezers, and adjusts index pointer above end of balance arm.
* Turns and examines wheel to verify that space between index and both arms is identical, using loupe.
* Adjusts index pointer over rim of wheel and verifies that width of light slit between rim and index does not vary as wheel is rotated.
* Rejects wheels that are not true.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prints numerals, minute and second tracks, and company name onto timepiece dials, using printing equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Positions holding fixture and gelatinous head in printer.
* Places engraved metal plate in holding fixture and spreads ink over plate.
* Removes excess ink, using spatula.
* Lowers gelatinous head of transfer printer onto plate to transfer design from plate to head.
* Moves watch dial into position and lowers gelatinous head to print design on dial.
* Applies lacquer to specific parts of dial to protect them during brushing operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in assembling and packing metal furniture. Responsibilities include:
* Assigns tasks to workers based on workflow.
* Monitors work in progress to ensure conformance to set standards and work order specifications.
* Assists workers in performance of duties to solve work problems or reassigns workers to maintain production at specified levels.
* Trains new workers.
* Inspects assembled pieces for conformity to production standards.
* Reroutes defective furniture for reworking.
* Enforces worker adherence to safety standards.
* Examines packaging for furniture to ensure compliance with company standards.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and tests watch and clock subassemblies and completed watch movements for mechanical and visual defects and makes adjustments to correct defects, using watchmaker's tools and loupe. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects banking of pallet, lock, drop, and slide of escapement.
* Verifies that hairspring is level and centered, and inspects and adjusts beat.
* Tests endshake (vertical play of wheels), using tweezers, to verify that shake is within acceptable limits.
* Examines spring to verify centering between regulator pins and centers regulator lever.
* Examines movement for scratches, and blows out dust or dirt, using airhose.
* Activates watch and clock movements and compares time indicated with master clock to verify accuracy of movements.
* Listens to movements in operation to detect excessive noise.
* Turns time and alarm shafts and pulls alarm buttons to test alarm mechanisms for freedom of movement.
* Examines external surfaces for defects, such as cracked or scratched cases or crystals, loose or misaligned hands, and faulty printing on dials.
* Oils or inspects oiling of pallet stones and jeweled bearings.
* Disassembles movement to point of error and replaces defective parts, using watchmaker's tools.
* Observes minute parts with aid of loupe.
* May clean parts with soft leather and polish case with chamois.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates artificial plastic eyes according to specifications and fits eyes into customer's eye sockets, using precision handtools, measuring instruments, molding devices, and bench fabricating machines. Responsibilities include:
* Measures customer's eye socket, using calipers, and measures natural eye to determine size and location of pupil and iris, using scale.
* Records data on examination card.
* Selects stock artificial eye approximating size and shape of customer's socket and inserts eye into socket.
* Fills eye area and questions customer to ascertain that eye fit is comfortable.
* Applies plastic as required to build up and shape stock eye to conform to customer's eye socket.
* Examines customer's natural eye to determine iris coloring, eye white shading, and number of eye white veins and records information on examination card.
* Selects samples of iris, pupil, and white to match eye.
* Positions artificial eye stock in plaster of paris to prepare mold for casting plastic eye.
* Pours plastic into mold to form artificial eye.
* Measures molded eye to determine position for pupil and iris, using rule.
* Positions and presses pupil and iris into place.
* Immerses eye in boiling water to set plastic.
* Paints iris and white of artificial eye to produce color of customer's natural eye according to information recorded on examination card.
* Draws veins on white of eye, using colored pencil or scratches grooves into eye to represent veins and fills grooves with pigment.
* Immerses eye in clear plastic solution to produce glassy finish.
* Examines eye for irregularities in shape and removes irregularities, using dental grinding machine.
* Polishes eye, using pumice and electric buffing wheel.
* Fits customer with artificial eye and compares artificial eye with natural eye to ensure centering of iris and pupils and matching of colors.
* May fit patients with ready-to-wear plastic eyes of standard sizes and colors.
* May fabricate implants (plastic and mesh devices fitted in eye socket for retention of eye muscles) and conformers (plastic disks placed in eye socket to maintain socket shape prior to fitting of artificial eye), using standard molds and grinding and polishing machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and polishes timepiece dials or dial blanks, using power brushing wheel or handbrush. Responsibilities include:
* Applies abrasive powder to dials.
* Holds dials against rotating brush or manipulates brush over dials to clean and polish dials.
* Examines surface of dials subsequent to cleaning and polishing to verify specified cleanliness and finish, using loupe.
* Rinses dials in water or alcohol and dries dials in heated centrifuge.
Industry:Professional careers
