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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who supervises volunteer workers and coordinates activities in specified project or work area within organization to help strengthen and extend selected public or private programs and projects. Responsibilities include: * Recruits, interviews, and classifies applicants for volunteer work and trains and supervises volunteers in specific assignments. * Informs volunteers of policies, procedures, and standards of volunteer service. * Reviews written reports and observes work activities of volunteers to evaluate work performance. * Confers with volunteers to resolve grievances and promote cooperation and interest. * Participates in programs of public recognition for volunteer workers. * Supervises workers engaged in preparing and maintaining records of volunteer service programs, needs, and donations. * May perform volunteer work in such areas as teaching, corrections, medical specialty, or social work and be known accordingly. * May develop, organize, and direct special activities or programs of volunteer agency or department of organization and be designated Program Director.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who guides sheets of woodpulp, used in rayon production, as they are lowered mechanically into steeping presses or vats of caustic soda and pressed to remove excess alkali. * May weigh specified number of sheets, using scales. * May convey woodpulp to steeping machine, using handtruck.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in tracing sources of error and correcting billing records for gas, electric-power, and water supply customers, and in processing records for advance or final billings. Responsibilities include: * Interprets work procedures for subordinates. * Confers with subordinates to resolve procedural problems in tracing sources of error. * Reviews and corrects customer accounts to determine amounts over or under paid as result of irregular connection (meter tampering) investigations. * Prepares corrected bills to reconcile errors in meter readings, using calculator. * Traces source and corrects customer accounts for errors in billing rates, misapplied credits, or identifying information, such as name and address received from customer. * Confers with employees of other departments to trace payments on bills under investigation by collection department and to give information pertaining to accuracy of charges on customer's bills. * Performs other duties described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in selection and production of cable television programs, and operates equipment to film events, and to copy/edit graphics, voice, and music onto videotape. Responsibilities include: * Interviews and hires workers. * Instructs workers in operation and maintenance of equipment, such as cameras and microphones, or directs instruction of workers through subordinate personnel. * Gives work directives, resolves problems, interprets policies and procedures and prepares work schedules. * Initiates disciplinary action for rules infractions and terminates workers. * Contacts talent and companies to determine interest in program(s) and interest in supplying prizes to audience participants. * Writes script and rehearses script with talent. * Coordinates audio work, music, camera work and script to produce show. * Operates equipment, such as camera, sound mixer, and videotape deck, to film events, and to edit/copy graphics, voice and music onto videotape. * Performs public relations duties, such as contacting school personnel to discuss company's internship program for students, and prepares press releases for newspapers, indicating company trends and direction. * Prepares and monitors budget to verify expenditures stay within budgetary restrictions. * Prepares forms for government agencies and contract renewal. * Prepares invoices and bills customers for services rendered. * May operate broadcast equipment to transmit program to viewing audience.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends shaker screen to remove lumps from dried tetryl explosive. Respnsibilities include: * Transfers trays of dried tetryl to screening area, using handtruck. * Starts motor that activates shaker screen to separate tetryl powder from lumps. * Dumps tetryl from trays into feed hopper of screen. * Lines catch boxes with wax paper, and positions boxes beneath discharge spout of screen to receive screened tetryl powder. * Weighs filled boxes and stacks on handtruck for transfer to storage. * Carries containers of tetryl lumps to distillation equipment for reprocessing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of real-estate department of company and negotiates acquisition and disposition of properties in most beneficial manner. Responsibilities include: * Supervises staff engaged in preparing lease agreements, recording rental receipts, and performing other activities necessary to efficient management of company properties, or in performing routine research on zoning ordinances and condemnation considerations. * Directs appraiser to inspect properties and land under consideration for acquisition, and recommends acquisition, lease, disposition, improvement, or other action consistent with best interest of company. * Authorizes or requests authorization for maintenance of company properties not under control of operating departments, such as dwellings, hotels, or commissaries. * Evaluates and promotes industrial-development potential of company properties. * Negotiates contracts with sellers of land and renters of properties.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares switching orders for railroad yard switching crew. Responsibilities include: * Types or writes switching orders to inform switching crew of railroad yard, location, disposition, and number of railroad cars to be switched for loading, unloading, makeup, and breakup of trains, based on information received from yard manager and other personnel or records. * Keeps record of and reports movement and disposition of railroad cars for yard manager. * May count and record number of cars remaining in yard each day. * May telephone various personnel to verify location of railroad cars.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates batch or continuous still to separate intermediate products or impurities from coal tar compounds. Respnsibilities include: * Charges still and starts flow of coal tar compound through still units. * Turns control valves and observes recording instruments and gauges to attain temperatures, material flow rate, pressure, or vacuum specified for distillation of designated product. * May compute variances between laboratory analysis and product specifications, using prescribed formula to determine temperature and flow-rate adjustments. * May observe gauges or use measuring rod to verify quantities of chemical materials in feed and hold tanks of still unit. * May direct activities of helpers. * May be designated according to product distilled as Naphthalene-Still Operator; Tar-Heater Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who commands riverboat to transport passengers, freight, or other cargo along rivers. Responsibilities include: * Determines course and speed of riverboat on basis of knowledge of winds, weather, tides, and current. * Steers riverboat or orders crew worker at helm to steer riverboat and navigates boat to avoid reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards to shipping, utilizing aids to navigation, such as lighthouses and buoys. * Inspects riverboat to ensure that passengers and crew observe regulations pertaining to safe and efficient operation of riverboat. * Relinquishes command of riverboat to pilot, ship to guide riverboat through hazardous waters. * Maintains riverboat's log. * Must be licensed by U.S. * Coast Guard for steam or motor riverboat according to waters navigated and tonnage of riverboat.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops and evaluates calibration systems that measure characteristics of objects, substances, or phenomena, such as length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, luminous intensity, and derived units of physical or chemical measure. Responsibilities include: * Identifies magnitude of error sources contributing to uncertainty of results to determine reliability of measurement process in quantitative terms. * Redesigns or adjusts measurement capability to minimize errors. * Develops calibration methods and techniques based on principles of measurement science, technical analysis of measurement problems, and accuracy and precision requirements. * Directs engineering, quality, and laboratory personnel in design, manufacture, evaluation, and calibration of measurement standards, instruments, and test systems to ensure selection of approved instrumentation. * Advises others on methods of resolving measurement problems and exchanges information with other metrology personnel through participation in government and industrial standardization committees and professional societies.
Industry:Professional careers