- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who maintains stonecutting saws in operating condition. Responsibilities include:
* Removes broken and bent saw blades from gangsaws.
* Cuts new blades and cuts holes in ends of blades for mounting in saw frame, using cutting torch.
* Straightens bent blades, using hammer.
* Spaces, tightens, and levels blades to set up gangsaws so that stone will be cut, according to specifications.
* May direct workers engaged in setting blocks of stone on cars to see that they are properly squared and leveled for cutting on gangsaws.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects and adjusts mainspring barrel assembly, utilizing either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Grasps barrel arbor with pliers and locks arbor by means of adjustable ring on plier arms.
* Holds barrel and turns arbor to wind mainspring.
* Allows pliers to hang freely to observe spinning motion as result of spring unwinding, indicating faulty assembly.
* Separates faulty assemblies and places rejected assemblies by type of reject in containers for repair.
* (2) Winds spring to determine if arbor hook is secured in hole of center coil, using hand winding device.
* Tests endshake (vertical play) of barrel, using tweezers.
* Separates faulty barrel assemblies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates power press and other machines to stamp out spoons and forks from sterling silver blanks. Responsibilities include:
* Positions and secures specified cutting dies in holders of power press, using wrench.
* Starts press, positions blank, and depresses pedal to cut blank to size.
* Places cut blank in die holder of drop press.
* Pulls strap to drop ram onto blank to form bowl or fork end of flatware, regulating force of ram by height from which ram is released.
* Anneals flatware between initial and final stampings, using torch to heat metal to prescribed temperature.
* Immerses annealed flatware in specified solution to cool and clean metal.
* Positions formed fork blanks in holders of tining press and activates cutters that form tines.
* Shapes handle, bowl, or tines of spoons and forks, using copper model as standard, grinding wheel, emery-belt, wooden mallet, forming blocks, and hand files.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who attaches and adjusts cannon pinion to arbor of center wheel, using hand punch. Responsibilities include:
* Lubricates arbor, using oil-filled hypodermic needle.
* Positions cannon pinion over center wheel arbor and secures pinion onto arbor, using tweezers or hand punch.
* Pinches arbor with pliers at specified points to loosen or tighten pinion.
* Observes minute parts, using tweezers and loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles, tests, and adjusts prototype weight scales according to drawings, using handtools and power tools and metal fabricating machines. Responsibilities include:
* Selects prefabricated parts or fabricates parts required to assemble scale, using handtools and metal fabricating machines, such as drill press and bench lathe.
* Assembles mechanical and electrical parts and subassemblies of scale according to drawing, using handtools and power tools.
* Tests function and calibration of assembled scale, using test weights.
* Disassembles scale to determine type error and replaces or adjusts parts to correct error.
* Adds weight to poise or lever to calibrate scales or drills holes, hones, or twists levers or pivots to reduce weight.
* Informs engineering department of findings and recommends changes in design to correct or improve performance of prototype scale.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who raises and bends outer coil of watch hairsprings to ensure overcoiling: positions balance assembly in holding fixture, using tweezers.
* Threads stud end of spring through fixture and clamps end securely.
* Adjusts series of levers to raise outer coil specified distance above plane of spring and straighten raised portion parallel with plane of spring.
* Pinches and bends outer coil to obtain concentric position with inner coils and to ensure overcoiling, using loupe and tweezers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who fabricates, fits, maintains, and repairs artificial limbs, plastic cosmetic appliances, and other prosthetic devices, according to prescription specifications and under guidance of prosthetist or prosthetics assistant. Responsibilities include:
* Reads specifications to determine type of prosthesis to be fabricated and materials and tools required.
* Lays out and marks dimensions of parts, using precision measuring instruments and templates.
* Saws, carves, cuts, and grinds wood, plastic, metal, or fabric to fabricate parts, using rotary sawing and cutting machines and hand cutting tools.
* Drills and taps holes for rivets and screws, using drill press.
* Glues, welds, bolts, sews, and rivets parts together to form prostheses, such as artificial limbs.
* Makes wax or plastic impression of patient's amputated area, prepares mold from impression, and pours molten plastic into mold to form cosmetic appliances, such as artificial ear, nose, or hand.
* Assembles layers of padding over prosthesis and fits and attaches outer covering, such as leather, sheet plastic, or fiberglass, over device, using sewing machine, rivet gun, and handtools.
* Mixes pigments according to formula to duplicate skin coloring of patient and applies pigments to outer covering of prosthesis.
* Polishes finished device, using grinding and buffing wheels.
* Tests prostheses for freedom of movement, alignment of parts, and biomechanical stability, using plumbline, goniometer, and alignment fixtures.
* May harness prosthesis to patient's stump, applying knowledge of functional anatomy.
* May instruct patient in use of prosthesis.
* May also perform functions of orthotics technician.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in inspecting, testing, repairing, adjusting, and calibrating instruments, such as altimeters, ammeters, barometers, compasses, position indicators, steam gauges, tachometers, and voltmeters. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares work orders indicating malfunctions of instruments.
* Inspects and tests shop equipment and repaired instruments for conformance to quality control standards, using testing equipment, such as oscilloscope, pressure chamber, ammeter, and voltmeter.
* May disassemble, adjust, alter, repair, calibrate, and reassemble damaged or defective instruments, using tweezers and handtools.
* May train workers in inspecting, testing, repairing, and calibrating procedures.
* Performs other tasks as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who polishes plastic implants used to fill eye socket of person with artificial eye, using polishing cloths and chamois. Responsibilities include:
* Cuts emery cloth and chamois cloth into strips, using scissors.
* Clamps plastic implant in vise, and pulls emery cloth strip back and forth through implant opening to remove rough edges and enlarge opening.
* Examines implant to verify smoothness and freedom from defects, using eye loupe.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, tests, and adjusts scale mechanisms and repairs or replaces defective parts to ensure balance and accuracy of scales, using handtools and test equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Rolls test weights to and from position on scale platform and reads dial indications or weight tickets (if scale is so equipped) to verify accuracy of scales.
* Adjusts parts, such as loading box, rack, pendulum weights, and cams, for travel and leverage to determine type of error and coordinate readings with weights.
* Adjusts and tightens parts, such as locking handle, cam holddowns and ribbons, pendulum lever assembly, and stops for tare-beam lever, using handtools.
* Reduces friction to minimum in all bearings and parts of scale, using chisels, taps, tin snips, hacksaw, plumb bob, and electric drill.
* Repairs or replaces defective parts.
* May install parts in conjunction with balancing operation.
Industry:Professional careers
