HAND WORKING OCCUPATIONS, INCLUDING ASSEMBLERS & FABRICATORS

 

93935 CANNERY WORKERS

Perform any of a variety of routine tasks in canning, freezing, preserving, or packing food products. Duties may include sorting, grading, washing, peeling, trimming, or slicing agricultural produce.

93932 CARPET CUTTERS, DIAGRAMMERS & SEAMERS

Measure, mark, cut, and seam carpets or rugs to specific diagrams and dimensions for buildings. Include workers who cut linoleum. Exclude workers who install as well as cut carpet.

93908 COIL WIDERS, TAPERS & FINISHERS

Wind wire coils used in electrical components, such as resistors and transformers, and in electrical equipment and instruments, such as field cores, bobbins, armature cores, electrical motors, generators, and control equipment. May involve the use of coil-winding and coil-making machines.

 93926 CUTTERS & TRIMMERS, HAND

Use hand tools or hand-held power tools to cut and trim a variety of manufactured items, such as stone, glass, or rubber. Exclude Portable Machine Cutters who use patterns to cut multiple layers of fabric.

93114 ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLERS, PRECISION

Assemble or modify prototypes or final assemblies of electrical or electronic equipment, such as missile control systems, radio and test equipment, computers, numerical control machine tools, radar, sonar, telemetering systems, or appliances. Include workers who primarily assemble electrical systems for machinery.

93111 ELECTROMECHANICAL EQUIPMENT ASSEMBLERS, PRECISION

Assemble, test, and prepare electromechanical equipment or devices, such as servomechanisms, gear trains, gyros, dynamometers, ejection seat mechanisms, wave guides, magnetic drums, tape drives, brakes, control linkage, actuators, and gearbox mechanisms, according to specifications.

93951 ENGRAVING & PRINTING WORKERS, HAND

Engrave and print, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, patterns, designs, etchings, trademarks, or lettering onto flat or curved surfaces of a wide variety of metal, glass, plastic, or paper items (e.g., name plates, glass, optical glass, bowling balls, tags, and stamps). Include workers below the precision level such as Etcher-Circuit Processors, Pantograph Engravers, and Silk Screen Etchers.

93108 FITTERS, STRUCTURAL METAL, PRECISION

Lay out, position, align, and fit together fabricated parts of structural metal products preparatory to welding or riveting.

93911 GLAZIERS, MANUFACTURING

Install glass in millwork products, such as doors, windows, sashes, china closets, furniture, and office partitions. Exclude Safety Glass Installers, Refrigerator Glaziers, and Glaziers who work in the construction trades.

93105 MACHINE BUILDERS & OTHER PRECISION MACHINE ASSEMBLERS

Construct, assemble, or rebuild machines, such as engines, turbines, and office machines, or equipment used in construction, oil fields, rolling mills, textile and paper manufacturing, woodworking, printing, and food wrapping. Fit or assemble components or subassemblies. Install moving parts. Assemble systems of gears by aligning and meshing gears in gearbox. May test or assist in testing of completed product.

93938 MEAT, POULTRY, & FISH CUTTERS AND TRIMMERS, HAND

Use hand tools to perform a wide variety of food cutting and trimming tasks that require skills less than that of the precision level. Include Meat Boners, Carcass Splitters, Poultry Eviscerators, Fish Cleaners and Butchers, Skinners, and Stickers.

93944 MOLDERS & CASTERS, HAND

Mold and cast, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, any of a wide variety of items, such as food products, lamps, figurines, ashtrays, tile, pipes, mannequins, and candles. Include Candy Molders, Pottery and Porcelain Casters, Refractory Molders, Concrete Vault Makers, and Candle Molders. Exclude Metal Pourers who cast basic shapes such as slabs, blooms, bars, or billets.

93197 PRECISION ASSEMBLERS, NEC

All other precision assemblers not classified separately above.

93956 ASSEMBLERS & FABRICATORS, EXCEPT MACHINE, ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONIC, & PRECISION

Assemble or fit together parts to form complete units or subassemblies at a bench, conveyor line, or on the floor. Work may involve the use of hand tools, power tools, and special equipment in order to carry out fitting and assembly operations. Include assemblers whose duties are of a non-precision nature. Exclude electrical, electronic, machine, and precision assemblers, and workers who perform specialized operations exclusively as a part of which requires less than three months to obtain proficiency.

93905 ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLERS

Perform electrical and electronic assembly work at a level less than that required of precision assemblers. Include Electronic Wirers, Armature Connectors, Electric Motor Winders, Skein Winders, Carbon Brush Assemblers, Battery and Battery Parts Assemblers, Electric Sign Assemblers, and Electrical and Electronic Sub-assemblers.

93953 GRINDING & POLISHING WORKERS, HAND

Grind and polish, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, a wide variety of metal, stone, clay, plastic, and glass objects or parts. Include Grinders and Chippers, Polishers and Buffers, Metal Sanders and Finishers, Glass Grinders and Polishers, and Plastic Buffers and Finishers. Exclude precision-level workers.

93902 MACHINE ASSEMBLERS

Perform assembly work at a level less than that required of precision assemblers. Include Air Conditioning Coil Assemblers, Ball Bearing Ring Assemblers, Fuel Injection Assemblers, and Sub-assemblers.

93941 METAL POURERS & CASTERS, BASIC SHAPES

Operate hand-controlled mechanisms adjunctive to specialized machinery and equipment to pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds for producing castings or ingots of specific quality and size. Include Steel Pourers, Casters, and Ladle and Metal Pourers.

93947 PAINTING, COATING, & DECORATING WORKERS, HAND

Paint, coat, and decorate, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, a wide variety of manufactured items, such as furniture, glass and plateware, lamps, jewelry, books, or leather products. Include Inlayers, Stainers, Enamelers, and Decal Appliers.

93928 PORTABLE MACHINE CUTTERS

Use portable electric cutter to cut multiple layers of fabric into parts for articles, such as awnings, fitted sheets, garments, hats, stuffed toys, and upholstered furniture.

93921 PRESSERS, HAND

Press articles to remove wrinkles, flatten seams, and give shape by using hand iron. Articles pressed include: Drapes, knit goods, millinery parts, parachutes, garments, slip covers, and textiles such as lace, rayon, and silk. May block (shape) knitted garments after cleaning. May press leather goods.

93923 SEWERS, HAND

Sew, join, reinforce, or finish, usually with needle and thread, any of a wide variety of manufactured items, such as shoes, hats, umbrellas, rugs, baseballs, and hosiery. Include Weavers, Stitchers, and Finishers. Exclude Hand Sewers who repair articles.

93917 SOLDERERS & BRAZERS

Use hand soldering and brazing equipment to join together metal parts or components of metal products, or to fill holes, indentations, and seams of fabricated metal products.

93117 WATCH, CLOCK, & CHRONOMETER ASSEMBLERS, ADJUSTERS, CALIBRATORS, PRECISION

Perform precision assembling or adjusting, within narrow tolerances, of watches, clocks, or chronometers. Include Watch Train Assemblers and Timing Adjusters.

93914 WELDERS & CUTTERS

Use hand-welding and flame-cutting equipment, such as arc welders, gas welders, and gas torches, to weld together metal components of such products as pipelines, automobiles, boilers, and ships; to join together components of fabricated sheet metal assemblies; or to cut, trim, or scarf metal objects to dimensions, as specified by layout, work orders, or blueprints.

93999 ALL OTHER HAND WORKERS

All other hand workers not classified separately above.


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