A professional who performs repetitive bench or line assembly operations to mass-produce products, such as automobile or tractor radiators, blower wheels, refrigerators, or gas stoves. Responsibilities include:

• Places parts in specified relationship to each other.
• Bolts, clips, screws, cements, or otherwise fastens parts together by hand, or using handtools or portable power tools.
• May tend machines, such as arbour presses or riveting machine, to perform force fitting or fastening operations on assembly line.
• May be assigned to different work stations as production needs require.
• May work on line where tasks vary as different model of same article moves along line.
• May be designated according to part or product produced.