- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates activities concerned with laying and repairing submarine telecommunication cables. Responsibilities include:
* Devises plans for laying cable lines, taking into consideration ocean currents and ocean depths.
* Determines where and how cables should be laid and decides such matters as where to place buoys, where to cut cable, what grapnel to use, what length of rope to use for a given depth, what type of cable to use, and what route to follow.
* Keeps charts and records to show depth and location of all cables laid.
* Analyzes test figures made when cable fault occurs to determine exact location of cable break.
* Oversees work of locating and repairing damaged cables.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who guides hot steel shapes, such as bars, rods, and sheets, from one set of rolls to another. Respnsibilities include:
* Catches end of hot steel with tongs as it comes through first set of rolls and feeds end into next set of rolls.
* May set and adjust repeaters, guides, and rollers, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates turret punch press to punch holes or layout marks in metal sheets, plates, strips, or bars, following charts which list machine settings for each cut. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts, aligns, and locks punches and dies in turret, using hammer, shims, feelers, micrometers, and setscrews.
* Places workpiece on table manually or by using crane.
* Aligns workpiece to scale and end gauge on machine and clamps it to machine table.
* Pushes button to turn turret to specified punch and die.
* Turns cranks to set indicator to specified dimension on forward and lateral machine scale.
* Presses pedal to activate punch.
* Repeats operation for each machine setting specified on charts.
* Positions center punch from turret to touch plate and turns crank to scratch layout lines.
* May compute punch charts from blueprints, using square, scale, and applying knowledge of shop mathematics.
* May punch holes in nonmetallic materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs assigned duties, under direction of experienced personnel, to gain knowledge and experience required for promotion to management positions. Responsibilities include:
* Receives training and performs duties in several departments, such as credit, customer relations, accounting, or sales, to become familiar with line and staff functions, operations, management viewpoints, and company policies and practices that affect each phase of business.
* Observes experienced workers to acquire knowledge of methods, procedures, and standards required for performance of departmental duties.
* Workers are usually trained in functions and operations of related departments to facilitate subsequent transferability between departments and to provide greater promotional opportunities.
* May be required to attend company-sponsored training classes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains machines and equipment used in processing and assembling electronic components, such as capacitors, resistors, semiconductor devices and assemblies for television, radio communication, and radar systems, following blueprints, schematic drawings, and other specifications, using handtools, power tools, and test equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with operators regarding equipment or machine malfunction.
* Starts equipment or machine, such as diffusion furnace, wave solderer, or ultrasonic welder, and inspects and tests mechanical, electrical, and electronic units and controls to diagnose malfunction, using test equipment.
* Reads blueprints and schematic drawings to determine repair procedures.
* Dismantles machine and disconnects controls, using screwdrivers, wrenches, wire cutters, and other handtools.
* Removes and repairs or replaces defective units.
* Assembles and installs equipment, such as shafts, conveyors, wires, tubes, and controls, using handtools and power tools.
* Adjusts electrical, thermal, and timing elements to meet specifications.
* Starts repaired or newly installed machines and equipment to verify readiness for operation.
* Records type of malfunction and repair work performed.
* Prepares requisitions for material and supplies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in heating, rolling, coiling, loading, and shipping hot-strip coils. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production schedule for type of products to be rolled, and to plan rolling temperature, mill setup, and sequence of charging slabs into furnace.
* Inspects mill equipment, such as furnaces, run-out tables, conveyors, and pilers for malfunctions.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who investigates and analyzes child welfare cases and initiates administrative action to facilitate enforcement of child support laws. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews application for child support received from client and examines case file to determine that divorce decree and court ordered judgment for payment are in order.
* Interviews client to obtain information, such as relocation of absent parent, amount of child support previously awarded, and names of persons who can act as witnesses to support client's claim for support.
* Locates absent parent and interviews parent to gather data, such as support award, and discusses case with parent to resolve issues in lieu of filing court proceedings.
* Contacts friends and relatives of child's parents to verify gathered information about case.
* Computes amount of child support payments.
* Prepares file indicating data, such as wage records of accused, witnesses, and blood test results.
* Confers with prosecuting attorney to prepare court case.
* Determines type of court jurisdiction, according to facts and circumstances surrounding case, and files court action.
* Confers with court clerk to obtain arrest warrant and to schedule court date for hearing or trial.
* Monitors child support payments awarded by court to ensure compliance and enforcement of child support laws.
* Prepares report of legal acttion taken when delinquency in payments occurs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in repairing or replacing engine, frame, electrical system, wheels, or other parts of motorcycle. Respnsibilities include:
* Analyzes defects in motorcycle to determine feasibility of repairing or replacing worn or defective parts.
* Trains workers in repair procedures and techniques.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes malfunctions and repairs, rebuilds, and maintains construction equipment, such as cranes, power shovels, scrapers, paving machines, motor graders, trench-digging machines, conveyors, bulldozers, dredges, pumps, compressors and pneumatic tools. Respnsibilities include:
* Operates and inspects machines or equipment to diagnose defects.
* Dismantles and reassembles equipment, using hoists and handtools.
* Examines parts for damage or excessive wear, using micrometers and gauges.
* Replaces defective engines and subassemblies, such as transmissions.
* Tests overhauled equipment to ensure operating efficiency.
* Welds broken parts and structural members.
* May direct workers engaged in cleaning parts and assisting with assembly and disassembly of equipment.
* May repair, adjust, and maintain mining machinery, such as stripping and loading shovels, drilling and cutting machines, and continuous mining machines, and be designated Mine-Machinery Mechanic (mine & quarry).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that weld ends of wire together to form continuous coil and draw wire through dies to reduce wire to specified diameter. Respnsibilities include:
* Lifts reels of wire onto spindle of floor stand, manually, or using hoist.
* Welds ends of wire together, using welding machine.
* Smooths weld to diameter of wire, using abrasive cloth.
* Threads wire around tension rollers, and through reducing dies, and fastens end of wire to spindle.
* Starts machine that draws wire through dies and around takeup reel.
* May verify diameter of drawn wire, using micrometer.
* May record production.
Industry:Professional careers
