A professional who fabricates steel arch support to fit patient's foot, according to medical prescription. Responsibilities include:

• Receives plaster cast of foot from prosthetist or podiatrist.
• Places protection cloth into cast and fills cast with plaster to mould model of patient's foot.
• Removes hardened model from cast and traces model outline on paper to use as pattern in cutting support.
• Selects stainless steel sheet of prescribed thickness and cuts sheet to specified dimensions, using shears, guided by pattern.
• Hammers steel into prescribed contours to form support and places support against plaster model to determine accuracy of fit.
• Splits support into front and back pieces when indicated according to prescription, using shears.
• Polishes support, using abrasive wheel.
• Glues leather to bottom of arch support to protect shoe, and rivets additional leather across top edge for foot comfort, using riveting tool.