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Date: 08/10/2025

Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters

Perform precision assembling or adjusting, within narrow tolerances, of timing devices such as digital clocks or timing devices with electrical or electronic components.

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  • Review blueprints, sketches, or work orders to gather information about tasks to be completed.
  • Estimate spaces between collets and first inner coils to determine if spaces are within acceptable limits.
  • Bend inner coils of springs away from or toward collets, using tweezers, to locate centers of collets in centers of springs, and to correct errors resulting from faulty colleting of coils.
  • Assemble and install components of timepieces to complete mechanisms, using watchmakers' tools and loupes.
  • Bend parts, such as hairsprings, pallets, barrel covers, and bridges, to correct deficiencies in truing or endshake, using tweezers.
  • Clean and lubricate timepiece parts and assemblies, using solvents, buff sticks, and oil.
  • Mount hairsprings and balance wheel assemblies between jaws of truing calipers.
  • Change timing weights on balance wheels to correct deficient timing.
  • Examine and adjust hairspring assemblies to ensure horizontal and circular alignment of hairsprings, using calipers, loupes, and watchmakers' tools.
  • Observe operation of timepiece parts and subassemblies to determine accuracy of movement, and to diagnose causes of defects.
  • Tighten or replace loose jewels, using watchmakers' tools.
  • Test operation and fit of timepiece parts and subassemblies, using electronic testing equipment, tweezers, watchmakers' tools, and loupes.
  • Turn wheels of calipers and examine springs, using loupes, to determine if center coils appear as perfect circles.
  • Adjust sizes or positioning of timepiece parts to achieve specified fit or function, using calipers, fixtures, and loupes.
  • Clean and lubricate timepiece parts and assemblies, using solvents, buff sticks, and oil.
  • Examine components of timepieces such as watches, clocks, or chronometers for defects, using loupes or microscopes.
  • Replace specified parts to repair malfunctioning timepieces, using watchmakers' tools, loupes, and holding fixtures.
  • Disassemble timepieces such as watches, clocks, and chronometers so that repairs can be made.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Review blueprints, sketches, or work orders to gather information about tasks to be completed.
  • Estimate spaces between collets and first inner coils to determine if spaces are within acceptable limits.
  • Bend inner coils of springs away from or toward collets, using tweezers, to locate centers of collets in centers of springs, and to correct errors resulting from faulty colleting of coils.
  • Assemble and install components of timepieces to complete mechanisms, using watchmakers' tools and loupes.
  • Bend parts, such as hairsprings, pallets, barrel covers, and bridges, to correct deficiencies in truing or endshake, using tweezers.
  • Clean and lubricate timepiece parts and assemblies, using solvents, buff sticks, and oil.
  • Mount hairsprings and balance wheel assemblies between jaws of truing calipers.
  • Change timing weights on balance wheels to correct deficient timing.
  • Examine and adjust hairspring assemblies to ensure horizontal and circular alignment of hairsprings, using calipers, loupes, and watchmakers' tools.
  • Observe operation of timepiece parts and subassemblies to determine accuracy of movement, and to diagnose causes of defects.
  • Tighten or replace loose jewels, using watchmakers' tools.
  • Test operation and fit of timepiece parts and subassemblies, using electronic testing equipment, tweezers, watchmakers' tools, and loupes.
  • Turn wheels of calipers and examine springs, using loupes, to determine if center coils appear as perfect circles.
  • Adjust sizes or positioning of timepiece parts to achieve specified fit or function, using calipers, fixtures, and loupes.
  • Clean and lubricate timepiece parts and assemblies, using solvents, buff sticks, and oil.
  • Examine components of timepieces such as watches, clocks, or chronometers for defects, using loupes or microscopes.
  • Replace specified parts to repair malfunctioning timepieces, using watchmakers' tools, loupes, and holding fixtures.
  • Disassemble timepieces such as watches, clocks, and chronometers so that repairs can be made.

Skills

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
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Workplace Documents
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Graphic Literacy
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Abilities

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

Knowledge

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Customer and Personal Service

    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

  • Building and Construction

    Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Engineering and Technology

    Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

  • Administration and Management

    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • Education and Training

    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

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Pay

  • US Typical Salary
  • $65,580
    $40,790
    $26,240
  • US Typical Hourly Wage
  • $32
    $20
    $13

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 0
  • Yearly Projected Openings 0

Typical Education

Personality

Realistic: People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.They do well at jobs that need:
  • Attention to Detail
  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Independence
  • Adaptability/Flexibility
  • Cooperation

Tools

  • Abrasive drums
  • Air compressors
  • Ammeters
  • Angle gauge
  • Automatic lathe or chucking machine
  • Automatic soldering machine
  • Belt conveyors
  • Bench scales
  • Binocular light compound microscopes
  • Boring machines
  • Burnishing machine
  • C clamps
  • Calipers
  • Chamfering machine
  • Circuit tester
  • Coating machines
  • Comparators
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Deburring tool
  • Diagonal cut pliers
  • Dial indicator or dial gauge
  • Drill press or radial drill
  • Drilling machines
  • Electromagnetic geophysical instruments
  • Engraving machines
  • Feeler gauges
  • Flat hand file
  • Flat nose pliers
  • Force or torque sensors
  • Gas burners
  • Glue guns
  • Go or no go gauge
  • Grinding or polishing machines
  • Hand reamer
  • Hand vise
  • Hardness testers
  • Height gauges
  • Jewellers pliers
  • Laboratory heaters
  • Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
  • Lapping machine
  • Loupes
  • Micrometer calipers
  • Micrometers
  • Needlenose pliers
  • Oil gun
  • Paint brushes
  • Personal computers
  • Picks
  • Planing machines
  • Pneumatic screwdriver
  • Power buffers
  • Power grease gun
  • Power grinders
  • Precision file
  • Precision screwdriver
  • Pressure indicators
  • Pressure or vacuum recorders
  • Profiling and duplicating milling machine
  • Pry bars
  • Pull spring balances
  • Punches or nail sets or drifts
  • Rivet tools
  • Rubber mallet
  • Saws
  • Screwdrivers
  • Shears
  • Soldering iron
  • Stamping dies or punches
  • Straight edges
  • Tapping machine
  • Tube end finisher
  • Tumblers or polishers
  • Turning machines
  • Tweezers
  • Vertical machining center
  • Voltage or current meters
  • Watch or clock case openers
  • Water jet cutting machine

Technology

  • Analytical or scientific software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Internet browser software
  • Inventory management software
  • Office suite software
  • Point of sale POS software
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