Planning, managing and performing the processing of materials into intermediate or final products and related professional and technical support activities such as production planning and control, maintenance and manufacturing, and process engineering.

Repair and adjust cameras and photographic equipment, including commercial video and motion picture camera equipment.

Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers

Install, service, adjust, or repair coin, vending, or amusement machines including video games, juke boxes, pinball machines, or slot machines.

Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers

Install, examine, test, and repair computer hardware and peripheral components. Test computers' functionality, identify the problems, and replace damaged components and parts.

Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers

Computer Hardware Repair Technicians

Repair, maintain, or install computers, word processing systems, automated teller machines, and electronic office machines, such as duplicating and fax machines.

Repair, maintain, or install electric motors, wiring, or switches.

Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers

Repair, test, adjust, or install electronic equipment, such as industrial controls, transmitters, and antennas.

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Electrical and Electronics Repairers of Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Inspect, test, repair, or maintain electrical equipment in generating stations, substations, and in-service relays.

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay

Electrical and Electronics Repairers of Powerhouses, Substations and Relays

Install, repair, or adjust audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic entertainment equipment in homes or other venues. May perform routine maintenance.

Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers

Electronic Home Entertainment Equipment Installers and Repairers

Repair tears, holes, and other defects in fabrics, such as draperies, linens, parachutes, and tents.

Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other

Fabric Menders

Install, configure, calibrate, and repair technical products and systems at customer field locations. Perform maintenance and technical support for installed products and equipment; troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve malfunctions; and determine when products should be upgraded or replaced. May provide onsite training for customer support personnel.

Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

Field Service Technicians

Perform technical activities at power plants or individual installations necessary for the generation of power from geothermal energy sources. Monitor and control operating activities at geothermal power generation facilities and perform maintenance and repairs as necessary. Install, test, and maintain residential and commercial geothermal heat pumps.

Geothermal Technicians

Repair, adjust, or install all types of electric or gas household appliances, such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, and ovens.

Home Appliance Repairers

Repair, install, adjust, or maintain industrial production and processing machinery or refinery and pipeline distribution systems. May also install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to plans.

Industrial Machinery Mechanics

Repair and open locks, make keys, change locks and safe combinations, and install and repair safes.

Locksmiths and Safe Repairers

Lubricate machinery, change parts, or perform other routine machinery maintenance.

Maintenance Workers, Machinery

Machinery Maintenance Workers

Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of a building in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting; HVAC maintenance; insulating; welding; machining; carpentry; repairing electrical or mechanical equipment; installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment; and repairing buildings, floors, or stairs.

Lead teams and ensure the safe and efficient maintenance of a range of equipment and machinery.

First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Maintenance Managers

Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of mechanics, installers, and repairers. May also advise customers on recommended services. Excludes team or work leaders.

Mechanic, Installer, and Repairer Managers

Construct, maintain, or repair medical supportive devices such as braces, orthotics and prosthetic devices, joints, arch supports, and other surgical and medical appliances.

Medical Appliance Technicians

Test, adjust, or repair biomedical or electromedical equipment.

Medical Equipment Repairers

Oversee all aspects of site maintenance covering the mine itself, the associated processing mill, and related conveyor systems.

Mining Maintenance Managers

Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning.

Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul small engines used to power lawn mowers, chain saws, recreational sporting equipment, and related equipment.

Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics

Test or repair mobile or stationary radio transmitting and receiving equipment and two-way radio communications systems used in ship-to-shore communications and found in service and emergency vehicles.

Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers

Radio Mechanics

Repair, install, or maintain mobile or stationary radio transmitting, broadcasting, and receiving equipment, and two-way radio communications systems used in cellular telecommunications, mobile broadband, ship-to-shore, aircraft-to-ground communications, and radio equipment in service and emergency vehicles. May test and analyze network coverage.

Maintain and repair amusement park attractions. Keep records of the maintenance and repairs performed, as well as uptime and downtime for each serviced attraction.

Ride Technicians

Install, program, maintain, and repair security and fire alarm wiring and equipment. Ensure that work is in accordance with relevant codes.

Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers

Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers.

Watch and Clock Repairers

Watch Repairers

Inspect, diagnose, adjust, or repair wind turbines. Perform maintenance on wind turbine equipment including resolving electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic malfunctions.

Wind Turbine Service Technicians

Maintenance, Installation & Repair

Operate, install, adjust, and maintain integrated computer/communications systems, consoles, simulators, and other data acquisition, test, and measurement instruments and equipment, which are used to launch, track, position, and evaluate air and space vehicles. May record and interpret test data.

Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians

Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technicians

Test and analyse precious metals such as silver and gold to determine the value and properties of components using chemical and physical techniques. Seperate precious metals or other components from other materials.

Chemical Technicians

Assayers

Develop applications and systems for the automation of production processes. Build, test, monitor, and maintain the computer-controlled systems used in automated production systems.

Robotics Technicians

Automation Engineering Technicians

Assist engineers in determining the practicality of proposed product design changes and plan and carry out tests on experimental test devices or equipment for performance, durability, or efficiency.

Automotive Engineering Technicians

Execute or adapt procedures and techniques for calibrating measurement devices, by applying knowledge of measurement science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and electronics, sometimes under the direction of engineering staff. Determine measurement standard suitability for calibrating measurement devices. May perform preventive maintenance on equipment. May perform corrective actions to address identified calibration problems.

Calibration Technologists and Technicians

Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Assist commissioning engineers in the final stages of a project when systems are installed and tested. Test equipment, facilities, and plants for correct function and performance, and perform repairs and maintenance where necessary.

Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Commissioning Technicians

Responsible for management of contracts with customers, vendors, suppliers, partners, or employees. This includes contract drafting, execution, and analysis for the purpose of maximizing financial and operational performance and minimizing risk. Negotiates the terms and conditions in contracts and ensures compliance with them. Documents any changes/amendments that may happen during execution of the contract. Creates and maintains contract database for easy access and retrieval.

Purchasing Agents, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products

Contracts Specialists

Develop specifications and instructions for installation of voltage transformers, overhead or underground cables, and related electrical equipment used to conduct electrical energy from transmission lines or high-voltage distribution lines to consumers.

Electrical and Electronics Drafters

Electrical Drafters

Test or modify developmental or operational electrical machinery or electrical control equipment and circuitry in industrial or commercial plants or laboratories. Usually work under direction of engineers or technologists.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Electrical Engineering Technicians

Assist electrical engineers in such activities as process control, electrical power distribution, or instrumentation design. May prepare layouts of electrical transmission or distribution systems, coordinate the flow of work, estimate project costs, or participate in research studies.

Electrical Engineering Technologists

Assist electromechanical engineers in such activities as computer-based process control, instrumentation, or machine design. May prepare layouts of machinery or equipment, plan the flow of work, conduct statistical studies, or analyze production costs.

Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians

Electromechanical Engineering Technologists

Operate, test, maintain, or calibrate unmanned, automated, servo-mechanical, or electromechanical equipment. May operate unmanned submarines, aircraft, or other equipment at worksites, such as oil rigs, deep ocean exploration, or hazardous waste removal. May assist engineers in testing and designing robotics equipment.

Electromechanical Technicians

Draw wiring diagrams, circuit board assembly diagrams, schematics, and layout drawings used for manufacture, installation, and repair of electronic equipment.

Electronic Drafters

Lay out, build, test, troubleshoot, repair, and modify developmental and production electronic components, parts, equipment, and systems, such as computer equipment, missile control instrumentation, electron tubes, test equipment, and machine tool numerical controls, applying principles and theories of electronics, electrical circuitry, engineering mathematics, electronic and electrical testing, and physics. Usually work under direction of engineering staff.

Electronics Engineering Technicians

Assist electronics engineers in such activities as electronics systems and instrumentation design or digital signal processing.

Electronics Engineering Technologists

Install, maintain, repair, and operate information systems and any information and communications technology (ICT) related hardware and software.

ICT Engineering Technicians

Apply engineering theory and principles to problems of industrial layout or manufacturing production, usually under the direction of engineering staff. May perform time and motion studies on worker operations in a variety of industries for purposes such as establishing standard production rates or improving efficiency.

Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Industrial Engineering Technicians

Assist industrial engineers in such activities as quality control, inventory control, or material flow methods. May conduct statistical studies or analyze production costs.

Industrial Engineering Technologists

Develop tools, implement designs, or integrate machinery, equipment, or computer technologies to ensure effective manufacturing processes.

Manufacturing Engineering Technologists

Set up, test, and adjust manufacturing machinery or equipment, using any combination of electrical, electronic, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, or computer technologies.

Manufacturing Production Technicians

Prepare detailed working diagrams of machinery and mechanical devices, including dimensions, fastening methods, and other engineering information.

Mechanical Drafters

Apply theory and principles of mechanical engineering to modify, develop, test, or calibrate machinery and equipment under direction of engineering staff or physical scientists.

Mechanical Engineering Technicians

Assist mechanical engineers in such activities as generation, transmission, or use of mechanical or fluid energy. Prepare layouts of machinery or equipment or plan the flow of work. May conduct statistical studies or analyze production costs.

Mechanical Engineering Technologists

Negotiate, purchase, and monitor advertising space or airtime in print, broadcast and online media on behalf of their clients.

Media Buyers

Perform fault diagnoses to improve the quality of mobile devices and repair them. Provide information related to a number of services, including warranties and after-sale services.

Mobile Devices Technicians

Operate commercial-scale production equipment to produce, test, or modify materials, devices, or systems of molecular or macromolecular composition. Work under the supervision of engineering staff.

Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Nanotechnology Engineering Technicians

Implement production processes for nanoscale designs to produce or modify materials, devices, or systems of unique molecular or macromolecular composition. Operate advanced microscopy equipment to manipulate nanoscale objects. Work under the supervision of nanoengineering staff.

Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists

Test the safety of structures, vehicles, or vessels using x-ray, ultrasound, fiber optic or related equipment.

Non-Destructive Testing Specialists

Assist nuclear physicists, nuclear engineers, or other scientists in laboratory, power generation, or electricity production activities. May operate, maintain, or provide quality control for nuclear testing and research equipment. May monitor radiation.

Nuclear Technicians

Nuclear Equipment Operation Technicians

Collect and test samples to monitor results of nuclear experiments and contamination of humans, facilities, and environment.

Nuclear Monitoring Technicians

Build, install, test, or maintain optical or fiber optic equipment, such as lasers, lenses, or mirrors, using spectrometers, interferometers, or related equipment.

Photonics Technicians

Assist process engineers to design, produce, and maintain structures, systems, and components in chemical, petrochemical, agricultural, mineral processing, food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnological plants. Provide technical input to process raw materials into marketable products.

Process Technicians

Purchase machinery, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, or services necessary for the operation of an establishment. Purchase raw or semifinished materials for manufacturing. May negotiate contracts.

Purchasing Agents

Build, install, test, or maintain robotic equipment or related automated production systems.

Establish and maintain positive business relationships between stakeholders by deploying activities that are compliant with organizational processes. Manage the outsourcing process for their department and the supply chain communications.

Vendor Relationship Managers

Manufacturing Production Process Development

Operate or tend bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. Processes include joining veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.

Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders

Assemble, fit, fasten, and install parts of airplanes, space vehicles, or missiles, such as tails, wings, fuselage, bulkheads, stabilizers, landing gear, rigging and control equipment, or heating and ventilating systems.

Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers

Calculate, measure, load, mix, and process refined feedstock with additives in fermentation or reaction process vessels and monitor production process. Perform, and keep records of, plant maintenance, repairs, and safety inspections.

Biofuels Processing Technicians

Control and monitor biomass plant activities and perform maintenance as needed.

Biomass Plant Technicians

Cut, trim, or prepare consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale in retail establishments.

Butchers and Meat Cutters

Cut, shape, and assemble wooden articles or set up and operate a variety of woodworking machines, such as power saws, jointers, and mortisers to surface, cut, or shape lumber or to fabricate parts for wood products.

Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters

Operate or tend equipment to control chemical changes or reactions in the processing of industrial or consumer products. Equipment used includes devulcanizers, steam-jacketed kettles, and reactor vessels.

Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders

Control or operate entire chemical processes or system of machines.

Chemical Plant and System Operators

Operate or tend machines to wash or clean products, such as barrels or kegs, glass items, tin plate, food, pulp, coal, plastic, or rubber, to remove impurities.

Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders

Set up, operate, or tend spraying or rolling machines to coat or paint any of a wide variety of products, including glassware, cloth, ceramics, metal, plastic, paper, or wood, with lacquer, silver, copper, rubber, varnish, glaze, enamel, oil, or rust-proofing materials.

Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

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.

Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers

Develop programs to control machining or processing of materials by automatic machine tools, equipment, or systems. May also set up, operate, or maintain equipment.

Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers

Computer Numerically Controlled Machine Tool Programmers, Metal and Plastic

Operate computer-controlled tools, machines, or robots to machine or process parts, tools, or other work pieces made of metal, plastic, wood, stone, or other materials. May also set up and maintain equipment.

Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators

Computer-Controlled Machine Tool Operators, Metal and Plastic

Operate or tend equipment such as cooling and freezing units, refrigerators, batch freezers, and freezing tunnels, to cool or freeze products, food, blood plasma, and chemicals.

Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders

Set up, operate, or tend machines to crush, grind, or polish materials, such as coal, glass, grain, stone, food, or rubber.

Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material.

Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material.

Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Construct and repair full or partial dentures or dental appliances.

Dental Laboratory Technicians

Set up, operate, or tend drilling machines to drill, bore, ream, mill, or countersink metal or plastic work pieces.

Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Assemble or modify electrical or electronic equipment, such as computers, test equipment telemetering systems, electric motors, and batteries.

Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers

Assemble or modify electromechanical equipment or devices, such as servomechanisms, gyros, dynamometers, magnetic drums, tape drives, brakes, control linkage, actuators, and appliances.

Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers

Construct, assemble, or rebuild machines, such as engines, turbines, and similar equipment used in such industries as construction, extraction, textiles, and paper manufacturing.

Engine and Other Machine Assemblers

Engrave or etch metal, wood, rubber, or other materials. Includes such workers as etcher-circuit processors, pantograph engravers, and silk screen etchers.

Etchers and Engravers

Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes.

Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Set up, operate, or tend machines that extrude and form continuous filaments from synthetic materials, such as liquid polymer, rayon, and fiberglass.

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