- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who cashes checks, prepares money orders, receives payment for utilities bills, and collects and records fees charged for check-cashing service. May receive payment and issue receipts for such items as license plates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs, tests, and coordinates development of explosive ordnance material to meet military procurement specifications and to prepare project proposals for negotiating production contracts. Responsibilities include:
* Participates in discussions with military authorities to determine characteristics desired in explosive material, nature of target objective, and type of delivery system to be used.
* Prepares or directs preparation of design drawings and specifications for approval by procurement authorities, according to knowledge of explosives and plastics chemistry, ballistics theory, fuse technology, metallurgy, electronics, fluidics, and techniques of efficient production.
* Tests sample shells, warheads, or similar material under simulated military conditions (proof technician (ordnance)).
* Evaluates tests to determine acceptability of ordnance items or need for redesign.
* Presents findings orally and in writing to procurement authorities and demonstrates successful designs on proving ground.
* May negotiate procurement contracts.
* May coordinate pilot or serial production of ordnance items.
* May participate in development of delivery systems, fire-control components, and nonexplosive material.
* May be designated according to type of ordnance item developed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates keyboard or other data entry device to enter data into computer or onto magnetic tape or disk for subsequent entry. Responsibilities include:
* Enters alphabetic, numeric, or symbolic data from source documents into computer, using data entry device, such as keyboard or optical scanner, and following format displayed on screen.
* Compares data entered with source documents, or re-enters data in verification format on screen to detect errors.
* Deletes incorrectly entered data, and re-enters correct data.
* May compile, sort, and verify accuracy of data to be entered.
* May keep record of work completed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes existing freight rates, tariff regulations, and proposed or government-approved changes in rates to revise or recommend changes in rate structures, rules, and regulations for freight carrier. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes proposals and applications for changes in rates, rules, or regulations received from rate bureaus, shippers, sales offices, and other carriers, and reviews regulations and regulatory agencies' decisions on applications filed by other carriers governing established rates and newly approved rate changes to determine required changes in company's rate charts.
* Compiles rate-manual sections in accordance with governmental regulations, based on factors such as handling costs, classes of merchandise transported, fuel costs, refrigeration required, business volume, and potential return trip loads.
* Confers with shippers, sales and rate bureau personnel, and others to discuss revised rates, rules, and regulations.
* Prepares revised rate schedules or submits data for publication.
* May propose rates for activities or services not previously rated.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers state program for licensing motorists and motor vehicles. Responsibilities include:
* Formulates procedures and guidelines for examining and licensing drivers and registering vehicles in accordance with statutes, rules, and regulations.
* Coordinates departmental activities, such as clerical, inspection, licensing, registration, and insurance and financial liability.
* Recommends legislative changes in vehicle and driver license laws.
* Directs compilation of statistics, such as accidents, fatalities and injuries, and driver characteristics.
* Directs investigations to resolve problems, such as financial responsibility, license revocations, and related matters.
* Confers with other state or federal agencies to coordinate safety and other traffic programs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds grain powder, graphite, and other materials into glazing barrels. Respnsibilities include:
* Dumps specified amounts of graphite, grain powder, and other ingredients into mechanically rotated glazing barrels that smooth out and lubricate powder.
* Opens barrel door to discharge contents into containers.
* May time rotation (glazing) period, using watch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and computes amounts and costs of food bought and sold from records of cashier ii and other summaries. Operates calculating machine to compute profit or loss on each item of food or beverages sold in restaurant and individual departments and records data to keep perpetual inventory.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in processing applications and claims in water rights office. Responsibilities include:
* Prepares correspondence and takes dictation.
* Examines applications for errors.
* Prepares notices for owners to close, clean, deepen, repair, or replace wells.
* Prepares closing notices for publication.
* Plats descriptions on documents, using drafting tools.
* Answers telephone and personal inquiries.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compares previously prepared bank statements with cancelled checks, prepares statements for distribution to customers, and reconciles discrepancies in records and accounts. Responsibilities include:
* Matches statement with batch of cancelled checks by account number.
* Inserts statements and cancelled checks in envelopes and affixes postage, or inserts statements and checks in feeder of machine which automatically stuffs envelopes and meters postage.
* Routes statements for mailing or over-the-counter delivery to customers.
* Keeps cancelled checks and customer signature files.
* May recover checks returned to customer in error, adjust customer account, and answer inquiries.
* May post stop-payment notices to prevent payment of protested checks.
* May encode and cancel checks, using machine.
* May take orders for imprinted checks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records data concerning lost or stolen charge cards. Responsibilities include:
* Receives by telephone, letter, or in person, and records information concerning loss, theft, or destruction of charge cards.
* Records information in customer-account record to avoid further billing of customer.
* Compiles reports to notify other personnel of possible need for further investigation and action, such as issuance of lost or stolen-card bulletin to subscribing merchants, to prevent fraudulent use of lost or stolen charge cards by others, or to issue new charge card to customer.
* May issue reward checks to merchants or other people who turn in lost or stolen charge cards.
* May send form letter to customers in reply to inquiries about lost, stolen, or replacement charge cards.
Industry:Professional careers
