1. Draws, shapes, and engraves or embosses precious or base metal wire for use in fabricating precious or costume jewelry, such as chains, box links, and bracelets: Inserts tapered end of metal wire, such as gold, platinum, and silver, through die hole, pulling wire through dies of wire-drawing machine manually …
1. Repairs and adjusts electromechanical fare recording boxes used in buses and streetcars: Disassembles unit to locate defects. 2. Tests electrical circuit, using ammeters, ohmmeters, and voltmeters. 3. Inspects mechanical components and repairs or replaces defective or worn parts, using handtools and soldering iron. 4. Cleans, oils, adjusts, and reassembles …
1. Maintains, repairs, and overhauls farm machinery, equipment, and vehicles, such as tractors, harvesters, pumps, tilling equipment, trucks, and other mechanized, electrically powered, or motor-driven equipment, on farms or in farm-equipment repair shops: Examines and listens to machines, motors, gasoline and diesel engines, and equipment for operational defects and dismantles …
1. Plans layout of complete departments of industrial plant or commercial establishment to provide maximum possible operating efficiency: Measures and studies available floor space and draws plan of floor space to scale, using drafting tools. 2. Studies sequence of operations to be performed and flow of materials. 3. Studies and …
1. Conducts college or university courses for undergraduate or graduate students: Teaches one or more subjects, such as economics, chemistry, law, or medicine, within prescribed curriculum. 2. Prepares and delivers lectures to students. 3. Compiles bibliographies of specialized materials for outside reading assignments. 4. Stimulates class discussions. 5. Compiles, administers, …
1. Fells timber trees, applying knowledge of tree characteristics and cutting techniques to control direction of fall and minimize tree damage: Appraises tree for characteristics, such as twists, rot, and heavy limb growth, and gauges amount and direction of lean, using ax as plumb bob. 2. Determines position, direction, and …
1. Plans utilization of space and facilities for government agency or unit or business establishment consistent with requirements of organizational efficiency and available facilities and funds: Inspects buildings and office areas to evaluate suitability for occupancy, considering such factors as air circulation, lighting, location, and size. 2. Measures or directs …
1. Examines telephone transmission facilities to determine equipment requirements for providing subscribers with new or additional telephone services: Climbs telephone poles or stands on truck-mounted boom to examine terminal boxes for available connections. 2. Designates cables available for use. 3. Visits subscribers’ premises to arrange for new installations, such as …
1. Operates jumpbasting sewing machine to baste facing to front of coat, manipulating fabric to provide fullness. 2. Performs duties as described under SEWING-MACHINE OPERATOR, REGULAR EQUIPMENT Master Title. 3. May be designated by first or second step in basting of facing as Second Facing Baster; Underbaster.
1. Tends one or more single- or multiple-spindle lathe-type machines to cut and finish watch parts, such as watch plates, balance wheels, and bridges to specified thickness and surface finish: Depresses pedal to open chuck or nest to clamp piece in place, or fits hole of piece over pin projecting …
1. Feeds candy processing and packaging machines and performs any combination of following tasks in candy manufacturing establishment, working individually or as interchangeable member of crew: Feeds one or more candy processing or packaging machines. 2. Off bears, separates, counts, or culls finished or unfinished confectionery items and ingredients. 3. …
1. Operates lathe to polish faces of jewel bearings: Affixes boxwood lap impregnated with diamond dust to faceplate of lathe. 2. Starts lathe and moves bearing against revolving lap, using pointed stick to facilitate handling jewel bearing. 3. Inspects polished bearings to ensure conformance with standard, using magnifying glass.
1. Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in finishing coated fabrics, artificial leather, and felt: Sets up machines to make experimental samples, observes operation of machines to detect malfunction, and adjusts machines, using handtools. 2. Trains workers in operation of machines and equipment. 3. Inspects work of operators to …
1. Lays out and folds bolts of fabrics, such as silk and rayon, preparatory to moire processing, dyeing, and other processing: Determines if cloth should be folded by hand or machine, according to type of processing to be done or specifications, and lays aside bolts to be folded by machine. …
1. Sets up and operates link wire fabric machine to form linked wire mesh for flat bedsprings from stock wire, using work orders, knowledge of machine operation, and bending characteristics of wire: Studies work orders to determine dimensions and type of wire mesh required. 2. Selects tool and die elements …
1. Tends automatic machines that cut, bend, and couple wire links to form mesh mattress supports for cots, folding beds, and other furniture: Mounts two spools of wire on machine racks and threads ends into feed rollers that form lengthwise and crosswise spring links. 2. Starts machine and allows machine …
1. Fabricates cosmetic appliances from latex for use as artificial breasts, using dies, molded plastic forms, heat-sealing device, and airhose: Places molded form in die, according to size, and positions die on balance scale under spigot of latex gel container. 2. Pushes lever to open spigot to fill molded form …
1. Cuts and assembles padded articles, such as mattresses or cushions, from molded foam rubber sheets, pads, or scrap: Positions and measures or marks pattern outline on foam rubber piece, using tape measure and crayon or pencil. 2. Cuts around measurement or pattern outline, using electric knife or bandsaw. 3. …
1. Assembles and installs structural and electrical components to fabricate high-temperature industrial furnaces: Lays refractory brick to insulate furnace interior, using masonry trowel and mortar. 2. Drills holes in brick to provide openings for heater elements, wiring, and instruments, according to shop drawings and schematics. 3. Attaches manual or power …
1. Fabricates hinged shower doors, sliding doors, and stationary panels, using power tools and handtools: Cuts aluminum channel rail stock to specifications, using rail saw. 2. Drills and punches assembly holes. 3. Rivets piano hinge to rail. 4. Polishes rails, using buffing machine. 5. Measures and cuts glass panels. 6. …
1. Fabricates and assembles metal products, such as window sashes, casements, doors, awning frames, shells, cases, and tubular products, such as golf carts or furniture, as specified by work orders, diagrams, and templates, using handtools, power tools, and metalworking machinery: Lays out and marks reference points onto components, using template, …
1. Tends machine that crimps eyelets, grommets, snaps, buttons, or similar fasteners to material, such as cloth, canvas, paper, plastic, leather, or rubber to reinforce holes, attach fasteners, or to attach parts, by any of following methods: Pours metal fasteners into hopper of machine. 2. Positions material under machine head …
1. Tends machines that automatically fasten fabric, padding, and scrim with eyelets to form felted border panels for mattresses: Loads material on machine reels, inserts ends between rollers, and drops metal eyelets into feed slots of machine. 2. Starts machine and cuts, folds, and bundles boxing as it emerges.
1. Tends equipment that shrinks rubberized fabric sheeting or tubing to increase strength of material: Positions reel of rubberized stock in letoff rack, by hand or using hoist. 2. Adjusts stock guides and tension rollers on machine, using handtools, to accommodate stock. 3. Dumps powdered soapstone in hopper of equipment …
1. Clinches wire mesh fabric to metal frames to assemble springs for cots, folding beds, and other furniture: Clamps frame in jig and hooks helical springs to frame bars. 2. Spreads fabric and stretches springs, using hooked handtool, and links spring hooks to loops of fabric. 3. Attaches hooks to …
