- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who tends machine that threads metal washers onto rods for use in machine that molds washers into rubber shoe heels. Respnsibilities include:
* Fills hopper of machine with washers, using can.
* Positions rods in machine with one end in slot of revolving disk and other end secured by holder.
* Starts machine, causing disk to revolve in hopper and magnetically pick up and string washers on rods.
* Removes filled rods from disk and places rods in box for insertion in washer placing machine.
* Removes washers facing in wrong direction and reinserts rods in machine for restringing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs administration of institution, such as prison or youth correctional facility. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates educational, security, recreational, and rehabilitation programs.
* Directs operation and maintenance of facilities, such as laundry, cafeteria, buildings, and grounds.
* Recommends parole or discharge of persons under jurisdiction of institution.
* Directs recruitment and training of staff.
* Confers with staff to formulate and institute policies and regulations.
* Compiles and analyzes expenditures and projected costs, and prepares reports for officials.
* Prepares budget and monitors expenditures.
* May be designated according to type of institution, such as Director, School For Blind; Director, Youth Correctional Facility.
* May work in federal or state prison and be designated Warden.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in processing settlement of cash or securities transactions for trust-account customers in trust division of commercial bank. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews debit and credit entries to customer trust accounts pertaining to cash or securities transactions to determine whether funds were received or disbursed according to predetermined schedules, trust or investment-department instructions, or instructions on customer account records, using computer terminal and computer printouts.
* Assists workers with more difficult aspects of preparing records and transmittal documents for transactions involving purchase or sale of customer assets, recording interest and balance on contracts and notes, recording stock dividends, and placing insurance for customer property held in trust.
* Trains new workers.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to specialized area of work as Securities Supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who salvages usable parts from wrecked cars and trucks in auto salvage yard. Respnsibilities include:
* Dismantles vehicles, using handtools, bolt cutters, and oxyacetylene torch.
* Cleans parts, using solvents and brush, or vapor-degreasing machine, and stores parts in bins according to condition and part number.
* Sorts, piles, and loads scrap on railroad cars or trucks.
* May drive tow-truck.
* May sell automobile glass, tires, and parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs economic development planning activities for city, state, or region. Responsibilities include:
* Negotiates with industry representatives to encourage location in area.
* Directs activities, such as research, analysis, and evaluation of technical information to determine feasibility and economic impact of proposed expansions and developments.
* Confers with governmental officials to effect changes in local policies or ordinances discouraging effective development.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who determines winning odds on each horse of each race of harness-racing program by analyzing data, such as horses' and drivers' past performances, post position, and race distance, for use in racing publications. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews data on each horse entered in same race, such as past performance, assigned-racing classification, and race distance and reviews past performance of assigned drivers, and analyzes compiled data to estimate probable order of finish for each horse in each race.
* Assigns winning odds to horses by using estimated order of finish and standard-odds ratios, occasionally making adjustments of winning odds as dictated by judgment.
* Determines winning odds on horses in maiden races, based on breeding and qualifying-times data.
* Mails or telephones opening or revised winning odds to printers of racing programs and other harness-race publications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains portable saws powered by internal combustion engines, following manufacturer's repair manuals and using handtools.
* Disassembles engine and replaces defective parts, such as piston rings, bearings, and timing mechanism.
* Cleans or replaces fuel lines and adjusts carburetors.
* Replaces broken links in chain saw or installs new chain.
* Replaces rotary or reciprocating blades in other saws as indicated.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds flat strips of hoop steel, in which rivet holes have been punched, into rolls of machine to form barrel hoops.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes malfunctions, repairs or replaces parts, and dresses buhrstones to maintain grinding mills in operating condition. Respnsibilities include:
* Aligns and balances stone and grinding wheel, using handtools.
* Cuts foors (concentric grooves near center of stone) and cracks to sharpen stones, using calipers, dividers, and airhammer chisel.
* Positions stone horizontally in mill, using chain hoist.
* Inspects mills to determine malfunction or need for repair or reconditioning.
* Disassembles mill to gain access to worn or damaged parts, replaces shafts and other parts, and rebabbits bearings, using micrometer, scrapers, and handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates primary mill to roll hot steel ingots into blooms, slabs, billets, or beam blanks, following rolling orders and using knowledge of steel properties and rolling practices. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads rolling order to determine setup, rolling sequences, number of passes required, and draft (space between rolls) for each pass.
* Sets clearances on guides and rolls, using wrenches and measuring instruments, and starts mill to roll sample ingot.
* Measures sample for conformance to dimensional specifications, using calipers, tape, and level.
* Moves levers to regulate draft, as shown by dial indicator, and to control movement of conveyors, water sprays, and mill tables for each pass.
* Signals soaking pit personnel for ingots as needed.
* Observes color of ingot to determine if specified rolling temperature has been attained.
* Gives directions to workers in duties, such as changing rolls, regulating speed of conveyors, and turning ingot, to obtain product of specified size, shape, and quality.
* May be designated according to type of mill operated as billet mill roller; blooming mill roller; slabbing mill roller.
Industry:Professional careers
