How do they match: Medical Appliance Technicians

  • Operation Manager

  • Construct, maintain, or repair medical supportive devices such as braces, orthotics and prosthetic devices, joints, arch supports, and other surgical and medical appliances.

  • Construct or receive casts or impressions of patients' torsos or limbs for use as cutting and fabrication patterns.
  • Take patients' body or limb measurements for use in device construction.
  • Test medical supportive devices for proper alignment, movement, or biomechanical stability, using meters and alignment fixtures.

  • Construct customized assistive medical or dental devices.
  • Operate grinding equipment.
  • Operate welding equipment.