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photographic-equipment-maintenance technician
A professional who fabricates, assembles, and repairs photographic equipment except cameras, using handtools and power tools. Responsibilities include:
- Examines equipment, such as photograph printers, print washers, driers and straighteners, and mounting presses.
- Replaces defective wood and metal parts and makes minor repairs, such as cleaning and tightening connections, soldering and welding broken metal parts, and bending and installing piping.
- Lays out framework dimensions on channel and angle stock, using tape measure, square, and scribe and cuts and grinds stock to dimensional specifications to fabricate equipment parts, using power saws, sanders, grinders, and files.
- Assembles frames and installs parts according to blueprint specifications, using handtools, such as drills, wrenches, reamers, and hole punches.
- Installs electrical wiring, following blueprints.
- Requisitions parts and materials.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s): technical-maintenance_technician
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- Industry/Domain: Professional careers
- Category: Occupational titles
- Company: U.S. DOL
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