- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who oversees architectural drafters; electrical drafters; mechanical drafters; and structural DRAFTERSin drawing designs of indoor and outdoor facilities and structures of electrical or gas power plants and substations.
* Consults with engineering staff on development of plans and designs for buildings and installations and prepares layout diagrams to ensure accurate interpretation of designs by workers supervised.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs agency, division, or major function of agency or division charged with investigating regulated activities to assure compliance with federal, state, or municipal laws. Responsibilities include:
* Interprets and clarifies federal, state, or municipal laws.
* Represents agency at meetings, conventions, and other forums to promote and explain agency objectives.
* Consults with other governmental agencies, business community, and private organizations to resolve problems.
* Plans and directs surveys and research studies to ensure effective program operation and to establish or modify standards.
* Recommends changes in legislation and administrative procedures to reflect technological and ecological changes and public sentiment.
* Confers with legislative liaison individuals or committees to develop legislative bills involving inspection procedures and to obtain wording for proposed inspection codes.
* Prepares or directs preparation and release of reports, studies, and other publications relating to program trends and accomplishments.
* Reviews and evaluates work of manager, regulated program through conversations, meetings, and reports.
* Prepares or directs preparation of budget requests.
* May be required to testify in court or before control or review board.
* May be designated according to function or agency administered as Administrator, Pesticide; Administrator, Structural Pest Control; Agricultural Commodity Grading Supervisor; Director, Reactor Projects; Director, Transportation Utilities Regulation; Director, Weights And Measures; Manager For Health, Safety, And Environment; Petroleum Products Inspection Supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rakes cooked offal or tankage from cookers or from platform near press into hopper of hydraulic press used to extract grease.
* Cleans working area and scrubs floors, using cleaning agents and brushes.
* May rake crackling residue from extractor tanks onto conveyor and start pump to transfer solvent to extractor tanks to dissolve crackling and be designated Extractor Puller (oils & grease).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that mixes ground phosphate with sulfuric acid to produce superphosphate. Respnsibilities include:
* Pulls levers to open storage tank or hopper and admit materials into weighing hopper of machine.
* Pulls lever to open bottom of weighing hopper and dump materials into mixer.
* Tests sulfuric acid to determine if strength and temperature meet specifications, using hydrometer and thermometer.
* Starts mixer and blends materials for specified time.
* Pulls lever to dump mixed materials into storage pit.
* Records weight of materials mixed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in taking and transcribing dictation of correspondence and reports. Responsibilities include:
* Assigns stenographers to executives and department heads to take dictation and transcribe correspondence and memos.
* Assigns manuscript or recorded messages to workers for transcription.
* Verifies typed copy for neatness, spelling, and punctuation.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts research to develop and improve methods of sand molding, melting, alloying, and pouring of metals. Responsibilities include:
* Makes experimental sand molds, and tests sand for permeability, strength, and chemical composition.
* Calculates quantity of alloying metals required.
* Melts alloys and pours metals under controlled conditions to make castings.
* Performs physical and radiographic tests and evaluates data to develop improved alloys and foundry techniques.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reads typescript (original copy) or proof of type setup to detect and mark for correction any grammatical, typographical, or compositional errors, by either of following methods. Responsibilities include:
* (1) Places proof and copy side by side on reading board.
* Reads proof against copy, marking by standardized code, errors that appear in proof.
* Returns marked proof for correction and later checks corrected proof against copy.
* (2) Reads and corrects proof while copy holder reads aloud from original copy or reads proof aloud to copy holder who calls out discrepancies between proof and copy.
* May measure dimensions, spacing, and positioning of page elements (copy and illustrations) to verify conformance to specifications, using printer's ruler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities concerned with selection and installation of telephone facilities and special equipment on customer's premises to meet customer's communication requirements. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews sales order to ascertain extent of telephone facilities and equipment required.
* Inspects customer premises to ascertain space available for installation of equipment and to determine type and quantity of designated equipment that can be installed to provide specific communication facilities.
* Prepares floor plan of equipment arrangement for customer or architect approval.
* Prepares cost estimate for equipment and installation and submits data to management for authorization to proceed with job.
* Orders equipment, prepares installation specifications, and monitors progress of installation to ensure facilities are ready on specified date.
* Prepares all job-related paper work and closes out work authorization when equipment is in service.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts conference of employer and employee representatives to analyze and resolve labor disputes, as directed by federal government. Responsibilities include:
* Contacts parties in labor controversy and arranges meeting.
* Compiles all information on disagreement and determines points at issue, according to knowledge of labor, business, and government responsibilities under law and precedent.
* Attempts reconciliation of opposing claims and demands by ascertaining and exposing facts, by suggesting concessions, or by proposing adoption of new procedures.
* Prepares reports of cases, findings, and recommendations for resolving issues.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs operation of flight department of airline. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts indoctrination training for new pilots and refresher training for experienced pilots.
* Reviews reports on pilot performance and forwards reports to Federal Aviation Administration.
* Discusses operational and personal problems with subordinates to improve morale and efficiency.
* Studies technical manuals of airplane and equipment manufacturers and government regulations affecting flight operations to ensure that company training manuals adhere to legal requirements and are adapted to type of aircraft in use.
* Represents company in advisory capacity during contract negotiations with pilots' union.
* Accompanies flights to observe performance of pilots (check pilot).
* Conducts training classes for flight personnel covering emergency procedures and use of survival equipment.
* Directs preparation of flight-crew schedules and assignment of personnel.
* May interview and hire flight personnel.
* May pilot airplane on scheduled flights.
Industry:Professional careers
