- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who tends equipment that cleans and dries ammonium sulfate crystals. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes crystals from drain table into trough.
* Opens trough gate to discharge crystals into drier.
* Starts centrifuge to separate crystals of ammonium sulfate from acid and tar.
* Washes remaining impurities from crystals with hot water, using hose.
* Resumes spinning of centrifuge to complete drying.
* May neutralize acid in sulfate crystals with ammonia liquor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes secret coding systems and decodes messages for military, political, or law enforcement agencies or organizations. Responsibilities include:
* Examines secret messages for characteristics that reveal coding system employed in message.
* Analyzes message, using formulas, code books, chemicals, mechanical devices, computers, and knowledge of commonly used coding keys.
* Decodes entire message and consults books, magazines, government publications, and police files to obtain corroborative evidence.
* May develop codes or new coding methods.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates machine to fabricate steel cages used for reinforcing concrete pipe. Respnsibilities include:
* Bolts lagging plates of specified size to expandable mandrel of machine to form drum for shaping and sizing cage.
* Threads wire from spindle through tensioning rollers and feeder arm of machine.
* Tack-welds ends of wire to bell-end of lagging plate and pulls lever to expand mandrel.
* Turns wheel on tensioner to regulate pressure on wire.
* Starts mandrel rotating as wire is fed through tensioning rollers on carriage which moves along track to space wire as it winds.
* Tack-welds wire to end of drum on completion of run and cuts wire with welding torch.
* Pulls lever to move welding and grounding wheels into position to hold rod in place and to form circuit for welding.
* Starts welding wheel to weld rod and wire at points of intersection.
* Breaks tack weld at ends of wire, using hammer and pulls lever to retract mandrel and loosen cage.
* Pulls cage from shaft by hand or aid of pneumatic winch.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers activities of state department of hospital licensing and construction. Responsibilities include:
* Directs inspection of public and private hospitals, nursing homes, diagnostic centers and similar facilities in operation or under construction.
* Recommends or disapproves licensing in accord with findings, state laws, and established policy.
* Prepares and coordinates state plan for construction of medical facilities, in accordance with demonstrated need, available funds, and availability of medical service personnel.
* Prepares and enforces standards for operation of medical facilities.
* Confers with medical service personnel, representative of local medical societies, and other interested parties to implement policies and programs in accordance with public interest.
* May administer activities of state-operated clinics and hospitals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interviews anglers and inspects catch to compile statistical data concerning recreational fishing. Responsibilities include:
* Greets anglers returning from recreational fishing and solicits permission to examine catch.
* Counts and examines fish to ascertain total caught and to identify species and sex.
* Collects deformed or diseased fish for analysis by others.
* Measures and weighs fish, using ruler and scale.
* Interviews anglers to determine state of residence, method and location of fishing, and type of bait used.
* Records data obtained and tabulates results.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls continuous still equipment to distill pine oleoresin into oil of turpentine and rosin. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to transfer heated oleoresin from melting vats into cleaning, filtering, and washing tanks to clean, filter, and wash trash, foreign matter, and other impurities from resin preparatory to distillation.
* Pours specified amounts of oxalic acid into tanks to facilitate cleansing process, using graduated cylinder.
* Drains impurities from wash tanks and starts pump that forces resin into still.
* Turns valve to circulate water through steam jackets.
* Observes temperature gauge and turns valve to regulate heat to specified temperature to condense turpentine vapors.
* Turns valve to drain rosin from still.
* Observes sample of distillate for clarity and separation of turpentine from oleoresin to determine completion of distillation.
* Occasionally replaces filters in tank and cleans tank as necessary.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who counts, sorts, and issues money to parimutuel-ticket sellers, and parimutuel-ticket cashiers to conduct daily transactions at racetrack. Observes totaling board for official race results and issues money to cashiering stations to pay holders of winning tickets. Compares workers' reports of cash collected and paid out to verify accuracy of transactions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates battery of automatic machines to twist coil in pointed length of wire and form and attach caps and guards to wire to form safety pins. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs cutting and forming dies in machine according to size of pin specified, using handtools.
* Lifts reels of cap and guard metal strip onto feed-reel holders, and locks spring clamps to secure reels.
* Scoops pointed wires into gravity feed hopper and starts machine.
* Observes operation to detect jamming of mechanisms and extracts jammed pin parts, using pick, screwdriver, and pliers.
* Measures sample of completed pins for conformance to specifications, such as length, diameter of wire, size of spring coil, and width of pin, using micrometers and fixed gauges.
* Examines pins for malformation of caps or guards and opens and closes pins to test operation.
* Adjusts guides, tension bars, cams, feeder arms, and stops, and synchronizes moving parts of machine to correct malfunctions.
* Replaces broken or worn cutting and forming dies, using machinist's handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates risk and insurance programs of establishment to control risks and losses. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes and classifies risks as to frequency and potential severity, and measures financial impact of risk on company.
* Selects appropriate technique to minimize loss, such as avoidance (reducing chance of loss to zero), loss prevention and reduction (reducing frequency and severity of loss), retention (including self-insurance and planned noninsurance), grouping of exposure units (to increase predictability of loss), and transfer (placement of property, activity, or risk with other establishment or insurers).
* Directs insurance negotiations, selects insurance brokers and carriers, and places insurance.
* Appoints claims and self-insurance administrators, and allocates program costs.
* Prepares operational and risk reports for management analysis.
* Manages insurance programs, such as fidelity, surety, liability, property, group life, medical, pension plans, and workers' compensation.
* Prepares operational and risk reports for management analysis.
* May direct loss prevention and safety programs.
* May select and direct activities of safety, engineering, and loss prevention experts.
* May negotiate with unions for employee benefits.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in pointing, coiling, and load testing hot-wound springs.
* Trains workers in operation of equipment.
* Inspects springs for conformance to specified tension and dimensions, using tension-testing machine and gauges.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
