- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who develops and analyzes lists of raw materials, purchased parts, equipment, and other items required to manufacture aircraft and aerospace products. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews and evaluates engineering drawings and blueprints to estimate quantity and type of materials, parts, or other items required.
* Converts requirements to orders of conventional sizes and quantities, considering factors such as existing inventories, unavoidable waste, and kind of material to be used.
* Reviews material lists for conformance to company standard practices in regard to parts and materials used.
* Schedules deliveries based on production forecasts, material substitutions, storage and handling facilities, and maintenance requirements.
* Prepares or authorizes preparation of purchase requisitions.
* Estimates need to reorder supplies due to rejections and engineering changes during manufacturing cycle.
* Confers with purchasing, engineering, planning, and other personnel to exchange information regarding inventories, schedules, and related issues.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lines bearing surfaces of metal workpieces with babbitt (tin alloy) to reduce friction and wear. Responsibilities include:
* Melts metal in pot or ladle.
* Positions workpiece in fixture, and heats with torch.
* Pours molten metal from ladle or pot into fixture.
* Smooths and shapes bearing surfaces to match contours, using hand scraper.
* May apply acid to workpiece and dip it in molten tin to coat surface preparatory to babbitting.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who presses jewels to watch bridges and plates, using staking tool. Responsibilities include:
* Positions part in nest of tool, using tweezers and loupe.
* Presses identifying mark or part on bridge or plate, using hand-operated punch.
* May press jeweled or metal markers onto dial for use as numerals, using adhesive-tipped stick.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to fabricate and repair dental appliances, according to dentist's prescription, using handtools, molding equipment, and bench fabricating machines. Responsibilities include:
* Reads prescription and examines dental models and impressions to determine type of denture to be made or repaired applying knowledge of dental laboratory techniques.
* Fabricates full or partial dentures, using wax, plastic and plaster models, articulators, grinders, and polishers.
* Casts plastic or plaster models of dentures to be repaired.
* Selects and mounts replacement teeth in model to match color and shape of natural or adjacent teeth, using tooth color scales and tooth illustrations.
* Molds wax over denture setup to form contours of gums, using knives and spatula.
* Removes excess plastic and polishes surfaces of cast dentures, using grinding and polishing tools and ultrasonic equipment.
* Rebuilds denture linings to duplicate original thickness, contour, and color according to specifications.
* Tests repaired dentures for accuracy of occlusion, using articulator.
* Bends and solders gold and platinum wire to construct wire frames for dentures, using soldering gun and handtools.
* May confer with dentist to resolve problems in design and setup of dentures.
* May be designated according to type of denture fabricated as crown and bridge dental technician; metal dental technician.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines and gauges level vials for conformance to specifications and tests for leakage. Responsibilities include:
* Loads boxes of sealed vials into evaporating oven, and examines heated vials to detect fluid-loss due to leakage.
* Gauges length of vials, using go-not-go gauge, and examines vials for clarity of guidelines.
* Sorts completed vials according to position of bubble in relation to guidelines, to match vials in levels containing more than one vial.
* May be known according to specific task assigned as final inspector; tester; vial gauger.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects optical glass immersed in chemical bath, to detect striae (internal stresses). Responsibilities include:
* Selects premixed chemical solution or mixes liquid chemicals in tank according to refraction index and grade of glass.
* Immerses glass in bath and focuses burton lamp, collimating light, or striae scope on glass to detect internal stresses (striae).
* Marks defective areas with pencil.
* Writes inspection results and maintains permanent records for each melt.
* Sorts and grades glass according to type of defect noted.
* May operate transmission machine to examine glass for strain.
* May saw glass stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who heats and cools thermometers to test flow of mercury, remove excess mercury, and establish calibration reference points. Responsibilities include:
* Places thermometer alternately into hot water and crushed ice and rubs thermometer across corrugated pad to force excess mercury and mercury vapor from thermometer into temporary top chamber of thermometer.
* Spins thermometer in centrifuge to force remaining mercury back into bulb at bottom of thermometer.
* Observes rise and fall of mercury column and rejects thermometer if particles of mercury or dirt cling to bore, or bore constrictions prevent specified rise and fall of mercury.
* Heats thermometer at two known temperatures and marks height of mercury column on tube as reference points for calibration.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tapping machine that cuts internal threads in watch-setting levers. Responsibilities include:
* Places levers in holding fixture of machine and aligns hole in lever under tap.
* Starts machine that lowers tap into holes to cut threads.
* Verifies size of hole, using plug and thread gauges.
* Removes burrs from tapped hole, using powered burr cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans, dries, and presses cutch sheets (skins) to recondition sheets for reuse, using airhose and hydraulic press. Responsibilities include:
* Receives wet sheets that have been washed to remove gold particles, and holds sheets under compressed airhose to remove excess moisture.
* Places sheets in fanned-out pattern in heated hydraulic press to press and complete drying of sheets.
* Stacks reconditioned sheets on worktable for reuse.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in installing, maintaining, removing, and repairing water meters. Responsibilities include:
* Instructs workers in methods of repairing and maintaining water meters.
* Inspects industrial plants, office buildings, and apartments to determine size, number, and type meters required.
* Requisitions materials and supplies required to clean, maintain, and repair meters.
* Tests accuracy of meters, using calibrated testing equipment and turns dials and indicators to adjust meters.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
