Occupation Atlasmedical device assembler
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/24a170fc-be68-43a5-93f1-7a5c31c6062b
medical device assembler
Medical device assemblers manufacture instruments, machines and appliances that can be used to prevent, diagnose or treat medical conditions. Medical devices can be non-electrical, such as tubes, needles, drainage sets and sterile pipettes, as well as electrical, such as pacemakers, MRI machines, and X-ray devices. Some may also work in the production of medical furniture such as hospital beds and operation tables.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (23)
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.
- align components
- assemble final product
- clean components during assembly
- ensure conformity to specifications
- fasten components
- follow clinical guidelines
- maintain medical devices
- manipulate medical devices materials
- manufacture medical devices
- medical devices
- medical devices materials
- meet deadlines
- monitor automated machines
- quality standards
- read assembly drawings
- remove defective products
- repackage medical equipment after sterilisation
- report defective manufacturing materials
- sterilization techniques
- supply machine
- test medical devices
- use technical equipment for sterilisation
- wear cleanroom suit
Optional (31)
- adjust manufacturing equipment
- advise on medical products
- apply soldering techniques
- attend to detail in preparation for audits
- biomedical engineering
- biomedical techniques
- blow moulding
- construct moulds
- electrical engineering
- electromechanics
- fill moulds
- finish plastic products
- interpret circuit diagrams
- maintain medical laboratory equipment
- maintain moulds
- maintain plastic machinery
- manipulate stainless steel
- medical furniture
- operate machines for the rubber extrusion process
- operate plastic machinery
- operate precision machinery
- optical engineering
- plastic welding
- repair medical devices
- repair plastic machinery
- replace defect components
- resolve equipment malfunctions
- thermoplastic materials
- types of plastic
- use moulding techniques
- use precision tools
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