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    Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters
    Today's Date: 6/10/2024
    Exclude this category Perform precision assembling or adjusting, within narrow tolerances, of timing devices such as digital clocks or timing devices with electrical or electronic components.

    Exclude this category High school diploma or equivalent
    Moderate-term on-the-job training

    Exclude this category Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
    Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

    Exclude this category Basic Skills
    • Active Learning Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
    • *Active Listening Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
    • *Critical Thinking Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
    • Learning Strategies Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
    • Mathematics Using mathematics to solve problems.
    • *Monitoring Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
    • *Reading Comprehension Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
    • Science Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
    • *Speaking Talking to others to convey information effectively.
    • *Writing Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

    Social Skills
    • Coordination Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
    • Instructing Teaching others how to do something.
    • Negotiation Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
    • Persuasion Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
    • *Service Orientation Actively looking for ways to help people.
    • *Social Perceptiveness Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

    Complex Problem Solving Skills
    • *Complex Problem Solving Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

    Technical Skills
    • *Equipment Maintenance Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
    • *Equipment Selection Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
    • Installation Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
    • *Operation and Control Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
    • Operations Analysis Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
    • *Operations Monitoring Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
    • Programming Writing computer programs for various purposes.
    • *Quality Control Analysis Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
    • *Repairing Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
    • Technology Design Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
    • *Troubleshooting Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.

    Systems Skills
    • *Judgment and Decision Making Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
    • Systems Analysis Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
    • Systems Evaluation Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

    Resource Management Skills
    • Management of Financial Resources Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
    • Management of Material Resources Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
    • Management of Personnel Resources Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
    • *Time Management Managing one's own time and the time of others.

    Desktop Computer Skills
  • SpreadsheetsUsing a computer application to enter, manipulate, and format text and numerical data; insert, delete, and manipulate cells, rows, and columns; and create and save worksheets, charts, and graphs.
  • PresentationsUsing a computer application to create, manipulate, edit, and show virtual slide presentations.
  • InternetNavigating the Internet to find information, including the ability to open and configure standard browsers; use searches, hypertext references, and transfer protocols; and send and retrieve electronic mail (e-mail).
  • NavigationUsing scroll bars, a mouse, and dialog boxes to work within the computer's operating system. Being able to access and switch between applications and files of interest.
  • Word ProcessingUsing a computer application to type text, insert pictures, format, edit, print, save, and retrieve word processing documents.
  • GraphicsWorking with pictures in graphics programs or other applications, including creating simple graphics, manipulating the appearance, and inserting graphics into other programs.
  • DatabasesUsing a computer application to manage large amounts of information, including creating and editing simple databases, inputting data, retrieving specific records, and creating reports to communicate the information.


  • Exclude this category Body Positioning
    • Requires sitting

    Communication
    • Requires face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams
    • Requires contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise)
    • Requires use of electronic mail
    • Requires telephone conversations

    Impact of Decisions
    • Opportunity to make decisions without supervision
    • Requires making decisions that impact the results of co-workers, clients or the company
    • Requires making decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization

    Level of Challenge
    • Requires being exact or highly accurate
    • Freedom to determine tasks, priorities, and goals

    Personal Interaction
    • Requires work with others in a group or team
    • Requires coordinating or leading others in accomplishing work activities

    Work Setting
    • Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions


    Exclude this category
    • Clean and lubricate timepiece parts and assemblies, using solvents, buff sticks, and oil.
    • Examine components of timepieces such as watches, clocks, or chronometers for defects, using loupes or microscopes.
    • Bend parts, such as hairsprings, pallets, barrel covers, and bridges, to correct deficiencies in truing or endshake, using tweezers.
    • Change timing weights on balance wheels to correct deficient timing.
    • Adjust sizes or positioning of timepiece parts to achieve specified fit or function, using calipers, fixtures, and loupes.
    • Mount hairsprings and balance wheel assemblies between jaws of truing calipers.
    • Estimate spaces between collets and first inner coils to determine if spaces are within acceptable limits.
    • Bend inner coils of springs away from or toward collets, using tweezers, to locate centers of collets in centers of springs, and to correct errors resulting from faulty colleting of coils.
    • Turn wheels of calipers and examine springs, using loupes, to determine if center coils appear as perfect circles.
    • Examine and adjust hairspring assemblies to ensure horizontal and circular alignment of hairsprings, using calipers, loupes, and watchmakers' tools.
    • Review blueprints, sketches, or work orders to gather information about tasks to be completed.
    • Tighten or replace loose jewels, using watchmakers' tools.
    • Disassemble timepieces such as watches, clocks, and chronometers so that repairs can be made.
    • Assemble and install components of timepieces to complete mechanisms, using watchmakers' tools and loupes.
    • Observe operation of timepiece parts and subassemblies to determine accuracy of movement, and to diagnose causes of defects.
    • Test operation and fit of timepiece parts and subassemblies, using electronic testing equipment, tweezers, watchmakers' tools, and loupes.
    • Replace specified parts to repair malfunctioning timepieces, using watchmakers' tools, loupes, and holding fixtures.

    Exclude this category
    Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment
    • Apply lubricants or coolants to workpieces.
    • Repair precision devices or workpieces.

    Handling and Moving Objects
    • Align parts or workpieces to ensure proper assembly.
    • Assemble metal or plastic parts or products.
    • Disassemble equipment for maintenance or repair.
    • Reshape small metal components for precision assembly.

    Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
    • Inspect timing devices.

    Making Decisions and Solving Problems

      Controlling Machines and Processes

        Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates

          Getting Information
          • Review blueprints or other instructions to determine operational methods or sequences.

          Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events

            Thinking Creatively

              Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge

                Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work

                  Analyzing Data or Information

                    Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People

                      Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships

                        Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings


                          Exclude this category Tools

                          Boring machines
                          • Horizontal boring bars
                          • Jig boring machines
                          • Semi-automatic boring machines

                          Calipers
                          • Digital calipers
                          • Poising calipers

                          Drill press or radial drill
                          • Horizontal drill presses
                          • Screw presses
                          • Sensitive drill presses
                          • Vertical drill presses

                          Go or no go gauge
                          • Go/no-go gauges
                          • Plug gauges

                          Hand vise
                          • Colleting tools
                          • Holding tools
                          • Pin vises

                          Technology

                          Analytical or scientific software
                          • Maplesoft Maple

                          Data base user interface and query software
                          • At Your Service Software At Your Service Repair

                          Inventory management software
                          • Inventory control software

                          Office suite software
                          • Microsoft Office software

                          Point of sale POS software
                          • Retail sales software