Occupation Atlassurgical instrument maker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/bca063d2-a904-45db-b3f4-0fd7e681753e
surgical instrument maker
Surgical instrument makers create, repair and design surgical instruments, such as clamps, graspers, mechanical cutters, scopes, probes and other surgical instruments.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (18)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply precision metalworking techniques
- assemble metal parts
- cold forging
- heat metals
- hot forging
- join metals
- manipulate stainless steel
- metal smoothing technologies
- operate drilling equipment
- operate precision measuring equipment
- surgical instruments
- tend boring machine
- tend lathe
- tend metal polishing machine
- tend metal sawing machine
- tend surface grinding machine
- tend tumbling machine
- test accuracy of surgical instruments
Optional (19)
- calibrate electronic instruments
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- electroplating processes
- ensure conformity to specifications
- ergonomics
- maintain medical devices
- manipulate medical devices materials
- manufacture medical devices
- medical devices materials
- operate sand blasting cabinet
- orthopaedic goods industry
- repair medical devices
- scale etchings
- set up the controller of a machine
- spine surgery
- tend electroplating machine
- tend laser marking machine
- test medical devices
- use CAD software
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