- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends batch stills to separate, by distillation, liquids having divergent volatilization temperatures. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours specified types and quantities of materials into still.
* Observes thermostat and sets controls on instrument panel to maintain specified volatilization temperatures throughout distillation cycle and to control condensation of components.
* Draws samples of distilled liquids for laboratory analysis or performs refractometric or other tests, using standard procedure and equipment.
* Observes color of distillate to determine when distillate is completed.
* Records operating data, such as weight, yield of products, gauge readings, and number of batches distilled.
* May tend continuous-flow vacuum still.
* May be designated according to product distilled or formed as Ammonia-Still Operator; Crystallizer Operator II; Degreasing-Solution Reclaimer; Glycerin Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interrogates and screens individuals to detect deception or to verify truthfulness, using polygraph equipment and standard polygraph techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Attaches apparatus to individual to measure and record changes in respiration, blood pressure, and electrical resistance of skin as result of perspiration changes.
* Evaluates reactions to questions of a non-emotional nature.
* Interprets and diagnoses individual's emotional responses to key questions recorded on graph.
* Visits morgues, examines scene of crime, or contacts other sources, when assigned to criminal case, to gather information for use in interrogating suspects, witnesses, and other persons.
* Appears in court as witness on matters relating to polygraph examinations, according to formalized procedures.
* Prepares reports and keeps records on polygraph examinations.
* May instruct classes in polygraph interrogation techniques, methods, and uses.
* When analyzing voice stress charted on moving tape by needle of recording device for deception or truthfulness verification, may be designated Psychological Stress Evaluator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines works of art, such as paintings, sculpture, and antiques, to determine their authenticity and value. Responsibilities include:
* Examines work for color values, style of brushstroke, esthetic correctness, and other characteristics, to establish art period or identify artist.
* Judges authenticity and value, based on knowledge of art history, materials employed, techniques of individual artists, and current market.
* May illuminate work with quartz light to determine whether discoloration is present.
* May x ray painting and perform chemical tests on paint sample to detect forgery or to authenticate work.
* May specialize in particular categories of art or in specific types of artistic articles appraised.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts and processes mail in post office. Responsibilities include:
* Sorts incoming or outgoing mail into mail rack pigeonholes or into mail sacks according to destination.
* May feed letters into electric canceling machine or hand-stamp mail with rubber stamp to cancel postage.
* May serve at public window or counter.
* May transport mail within post office (material handler).
* May sort mail in mobile post office and be designated Distribution Clerk, Railway Or Highway Post Office.
* May sort mail which other workers have been unable to sort and be designated Special-Distribution Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates magnetic-tape recording and typographic composing machine to prepare copy used for offset printing of forms, documents, advertisements, and other matter, following copy and layout instructions and using knowledge of typesetting and typing techniques. Responsibilities include:
* Clips copy and instructions to copy holder.
* Inserts blank tape cartridges on tape-station hubs and starts recorder to thread tape.
* Selects and attaches specified type-font element to typewriter carrier.
* Adjusts margins and other spacing mechanisms to set line justification.
* Types from marked copy, using electric typewriter that simultaneously produces proof copy and master tape.
* Types in composer control codes according to program sequence to allow change of type font and format.
* Proofreads copy.
* Makes corrections by strikeover on proof copy, automatically correcting identical material on master tape, or retypes corrected portions only, generating correction tape.
* Reference codes correction tape to error location in original copy and tape.
* Removes tape cartridges from recorder and installs cartridges, with correction tape, if any, into composer-output printer.
* Installs specified type font and sets escapement and vertical spacing controls.
* Keys in layout and composing codes on control panel, following program sequence.
* Inserts coated paper and starts composer.
* Operates composer controls in response to function-light indicators and changes type font and format as work progresses.
* Removes copy from composer, examines copy for errors, and makes necessary corrections.
* May specialize in operation of recorder or composer units.
* May operate varitype machine to set headline copy (varitype operator).
* May prepare final camera-ready copy and layout, using waxing machine and drafting tools and equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies use of current tariff rates at railroad freight, passenger agent, and ticket offices. Responsibilities include:
* Visits offices and examines records, such as freight bills, to ascertain whether current rates are in use, in accordance with tariff schedules.
* Computes and verifies tariff rates applied, using calculating machine and rate books.
* Issues instructions to agent regarding correction of errors in rates.
* Compiles reports for management, identifying names of agents and locations using incorrect tariffs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends filter that cleans detergent used in toothpaste. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps that transfer toothpaste-detergent slurry to filter tank, and turns valve on vacuum line to draw liquid from slurry.
* Turns valves on feed lines to wash residual toothpaste detergent with specified solvent fluid.
* Shovels caked detergent into drum and clamps on lid.
* Weighs drum and records weight.
* Moves drum to storage area, using handtruck.
* Starts pumps to force filtrate liquid down through filter to stills to recover solvent.
* May record production data in log.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who applies engineering theory and practical knowledge, under direction of engineering staff, to build and test prototype optomechanical devices to be used in such equipment as aerial cameras, gun sights, and telescopes. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews project instructions, and preliminary specifications to identify and plan requirements for parts fabrication, purchase, assembly, and test.
* Prepares sketches and writes work orders and purchase requests for items to be furnished by others, and follows up delivery.
* Designs, builds, or modifies fixtures used to assemble parts.
* Lays out cutting lines for machining, using drafting tools.
* Assembles and adjusts parts and related electrical units of prototype to prepare for test.
* Sets up prototype and test apparatus, such as control console, collimator, recording equipment, and cables in accordance with specifications.
* Operates controls of test apparatus and prototype to observe and record test results.
* Computes test data on laboratory forms for engineers.
* Confers in technical meetings, recommending design and material changes to reduce cost and lead time.
* May be assigned as group leader to coordinate work of technicians, model makers, and others assigned to assist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who commands ships to steer them into and out of harbors, estuaries, straits, and sounds, and on rivers, lakes, and bays. Responsibilities include:
* Directs course and speed of ship on basis of specialized knowledge of local winds, weather, tides, and current.
* Orders worker at helm to steer ship, and navigates ship to avoid reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards to shipping, utilizing aids to navigation, such as lighthouses and buoys.
* Signals tugboat captain to berth and unberth ship.
* Must be licensed by U.S.
* Coast Guard with limitations indicating class and tonnage of vessels for which license is valid and route and waters that may be piloted.
* May be designated according to vessel commanded as Pilot, Steam Yacht; Pilot, Tank Vessel.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends centrifuge and auxiliary equipment that washes and dries slurry solution, formed during making of soap, to recover glycerin-free salt. Respnsibilities include:
* Tests sample of slurry from decantation tank for salt content and to determine rate of flow of solution into centrifuge hopper, using testing instruments, such as hydrometer.
* Turns valve to run slurry into centrifuge and presses switch to start machine.
* Observes gauges to verify rate of flow and adjusts thermostat to regulate temperature of water in centrifuge.
* Opens valves to fill drums or silo with salt flakes.
* Turns valve to discharge liquid into holding tanks.
* May dissolve salt in liquid to make brine and perform specific gravity test, using hydrometer.
Industry:Professional careers
