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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Persons who possess educational qualifications, work experience, and legal certification where required as established by engineering schools, employers, and licensing authorities for employment in various fields of engineering. Engineers typically function in one or more activities, such as research, development, design, production, consulting, administration and management, teaching, technical writing, or technical sales and service. Classifications are made according to one or more engineering fields in which individual is qualified for employment, such as aeronautical, electrical, mechanical, chemical, mining, marine, or nuclear engineering.
Industry:Professional careers
Persons who entertain and amuse audiences by means of an act or skit, dance, reading, feat of skill, songs, or comedy act. Classifications are made according to type of entertainment provided.
Industry:Professional careers
Engineering personnel who utilize engineering knowledge and technology to identify, solve, or alleviate environmental problems. Environmental engineers typically apply knowledge of chemical, civil, mechanical, or other engineering discipline to preserve the quality of life by correcting and improving various areas of environmental concern, such as air, soil, or water pollution. However, any engineer whose technology is adaptable to solution of environmental problems, generates a need for environmental impact analysis, or affects the quality of life, is included in this term. This term may be used to denote engineering personnel in specific industries, such as mining and quarrying, petroleum production, or petroleum refining, who function at an administrative level to plan and coordinate pollution monitoring activities within a particular industrial framework. Classifications are made according to area or specialization as industrial-health engineer, nuclear engineer, pollution-control engineer, project manager, environmental research, or sanitary engineer.
Industry:Professional careers
Engineering personnel who utilize engineering knowledge and technology to identify, solve, or alleviate environmental problems. Environmental engineers typically apply knowledge of chemical, civil, mechanical, or other engineering discipline to preserve the quality of life by correcting and improving various areas of environmental concern, such as air, soil, or water pollution. However, any engineer whose technology is adaptable to solution of environmental problems, generates a need for environmental impact analysis, or affects the quality of life, is included in this term. This term may be used to denote engineering personnel in specific industries, such as mining and quarrying, petroleum production, or petroleum refining, who function at an administrative level to plan and coordinate pollution monitoring activities within a particular industrial framework. Classifications are made according to area or specialization as industrial-health engineer, nuclear engineer, pollution-control engineer, project manager, environmental research, or sanitary engineer.
Industry:Professional careers
Workers who study, analyze, and evaluate environmental problems, apply scientific knowledge to prevent pollution, develop solutions to existing environmental problems, and predict possibility of future environmental pollution, including that concerned with air, water, land and land use, noise, and radioactivity. May prepare environmental impact reports or studies detailing types and causes of pollution and probability of future environmental problems. May work with federal, state, and local governmental agencies and community groups in establishing and promoting environmental policies. General classifications are environmental analyst and pollution-control engineer. Since environmental work activities are interdisciplinary in nature, classifications are also made according to specific fields of specialization, such as civil engineering, soils engineering, chemistry, biology, geophysics, geology, geography, architecture, or forestry. Workers may direct and coordinate activities of other environmental scientists and be classified project manager, environmental research. Workers may function at the technician level, providing scientific or engineering support to environmental projects, and be classified biological aide, laboratory tester, pollution-control technician, scientific helper, or laboratory tester.
Industry:Professional careers
Workers who install, relocate, and remove telephone and telegraph equipment. Classifications are made according to type of equipment worked on as telegraph-plant maintainer, equipment installer.
Industry:Professional careers
A term for a worker who acts in junior supervisory capacities, such as assistant department manager or staff assistant supervisor in an organization, to learn company policies and procedures, and functions and activities of departments with view toward acquiring knowledge of all business phases. Attends personnel training classes to acquire knowledge of organizational setup, staff and line functions, and long and short range business objectives. Acquires, through on-the-job training in departments, such as credit, sales, engineering, production, and personnel, an overall knowledge of company business functions and activities. Workers are classified according to designation of supervisory personnel assisted or department staff activity.
Industry:Professional careers
Any worker who processes, stores, or otherwise handles explosives, observing specified safety regulations to prevent explosions. Classifications are made according to equipment used as boiling-tub operator, mixer operator i, poacher operator, or according to material handled as dynamite-cartridge crimper, nitroglycerin neutralizer, tetryl-dissolver operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A term used to designate a person who manages a tract of land devoted to production or exploitation of plants and animals. Classifications are made according to duties performed as farmer, field crop, farmer, general, farmer, fruit crops, bush and vine, livestock rancher, poultry farmer.
Industry:Professional careers
A farmer working on a contract basis for another farmer. Classifications are made according to kind of work contracted for as farm-machine operator, farmworker, grain i.
Industry:Professional careers
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