- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who pilots new, prototype, experimental, modified, and production aircraft to evaluate factors such as aircraft's airworthiness, performance, systems operation, and design. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects or oversees inspection of aircraft prior to flight to ensure aircraft's readiness for flight.
* Starts and warms engine, listens to engine sounds at various speeds, and monitors instruments to detect malfunctions.
* Taxies aircraft to test controls, brakes, and shock absorbers.
* Radios control tower for takeoff instructions, releases brakes, and moves throttles and hand and foot controls to take off and control aircraft in flight.
* Operates aircraft controls to perform maneuvers, such as stalls, dives, loops, rolls, turns, and speed runs, to test and evaluate stability, control characteristics, and aerodynamic design.
* Observes recording, measuring, and operating instruments and equipment during test flight to evaluate aircraft's performance.
* Prepares report of test results and collaborates with engineering personnel to analyze test data.
* Assists engineers in preparing master flight plans for testing purposes.
* May provide instructions for adjustments or replacement of parts.
* May deliver aircraft to designated receiving point.
* May train customer in operation of aircraft.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in recording securities transactions and receiving and delivering securities to and from trust vault and oversees vault safekeeping procedures and controls. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and directs activities of workers engaged in recording securities interest and dividends and maintaining securities transaction records.
* Plans and implements procedures for safekeeping of securities.
* Explains safekeeping policies and procedures to workers and oversees compliance with procedures.
* Assigns vault combination numbers and changes combination periodically.
* Sets vault clock daily for following morning opening time.
* Reviews visitor register to verify that only authorized persons were admitted to vault.
* Examines trust securities stored in vault, verifies descriptions, signatures, and certificate or serial numbers, and computes total value of all securities, using calculator or computer, to assist bank auditor in performing audits.
* Reviews securities documents to ensure that documents correspond with descriptions on delivery-request ticket prepared by trust-vault clerk for delivery to authorized persons.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who screens dynamite sweepings and broken cartridge shells to reclaim usable dynamite. Respnsibilities include:
* Shovels floor sweepings and broken shells from powder buggy onto brass screen, using wooden shovel.
* Picks out foreign matter, such as paper and wood splinters, sifts explosive material from broken or malformed cartridges, and discards debris.
* Rubs dynamite through screen, using gloved hand.
* Shovels or dumps reclaimed dynamite into powder buggy for reprocessing.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tanks that remove acidity, impurities, and inadequately processed material from nitrocellulose, used in manufacturing chemical and explosive products. Respnsibilities include:
* Pumps nitrocellulose into poacher tubs (tanks) fitted with steam coils or steampipes.
* Turns valves to admit water and steam to boil mixture for specified time.
* Tends shaker screen and vacuum filter to wash nitrocellulose.
* Takes samples to laboratory for analysis.
* Reads laboratory reports and adjusts blends to meet specifications.
* Loads blender tubs with measured amount of different types of nitrocellulose to blend products according to specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in computing premiums, recording, and issuing insurance policies following acceptance of insurance applications by underwriting department. Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts research and analyzes and evaluates proposed and existing methods of transportation, handling, and storage of nuclear fuel to preclude accidental nuclear reaction at nuclear facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews and evaluates fuel transfer and storage plans received from nuclear plants.
* Studies reports of nuclear fuel characteristics to determine potential or inherent problems.
* Reads blueprints of proposed storage facilities and visits storage sites to determine adequacy of storage plans.
* Forecasts nuclear fuel criticality (point at which nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining), given various factors which may exist in fuel handling and storage, using knowledge of nuclear physics, calculator, and computer terminal.
* Determines potential hazards and accident conditions which may exist in fuel handling and storage and recommends preventive measures.
* Summarizes findings and writes reports.
* Confers with project officials to resolve situations where hazard is beyond acceptable levels.
* Prepares proposal reports for handling and storage of fuels to be submitted to government review board.
* Studies existing procedures and recommends changes or additions to guidelines and controls to ensure prevention of self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who buys and sells business enterprises or investment property on speculative or commission basis. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews trade journals, business opportunity advertisements, or other publications to ascertain business enterprises or investment property up for sale.
* Investigates financial rating of business, customer appeal for type of merchandise, and desirability of location for type of business, or condition and location of investment property.
* Estimates cost of improving business or property and potential market value to determine resale value.
* Purchases business or property on speculative basis or on commission basis for client.
* Repairs, remodels, or redecorates building; purchases competitive merchandise; and installs sound management practices to improve value of property or business acquisition.
* Contacts prospective clients through newspaper advertisements or mailing lists.
* Describes to client selling points of property or business, emphasizing such factors as improvements made and profit potential.
* Sells business or property to buyer and makes arrangements for escrow and title change.
* Must be licensed by state.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in calculating, posting, verifying, and typing duties to obtain and record financial data for use in maintaining accounting and statistical records. Responsibilities include:
* Compiles reports required by management or government agencies.
* May perform duties of accounting clerk and bookkeeper .
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares working layouts and master drawings of automotive vehicle components, assemblies, or systems from specifications, prior layouts, well-defined sketches, models or verbal instructions sufficient for detailing, applying knowledge of conventional and computerized drafting techniques and procedures, automotive vehicle design, manufacturing processes and limitations, using conventional drafting instruments and computerized work aids. Responsibilities include:
* Studies specifications, sketches, notes, and other design data and measures prior layouts, using scales and dividers, to determine details and dimensions of components being laid out from superimposed views and sections of parts on layouts.
* Lays out on vellum major or minor components, assemblies, or systems in full-scale working layouts.
* Performs mathematical calculations to work out detailed additions to specifications, applying knowledge of mathematical formulas, using slide rule or digital calculators.
* Develops design of details not completely defined.
* Projects sections and auxiliary views of components on layouts.
* Makes corrections, revisions, and changes to layouts as directed by auto-design checker or automotive design drafter.
* Drafts master drawing of approved design on mylar, aluminum, or other materials.
* Specializes in laying out specific type of body or chassis components, assemblies, or systems.
* Coordinates and works in conjunction with other workers designing, laying out, or detailing same or related structures.
* May direct activities of detailers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds wood chips into digesters used in steam distillation process for extracting crude turpentine. Respnsibilities include:
* Seals cover to opening at bottom of digester.
* Starts conveyor to fill digester with wood chips through charging hole at top.
* Seals cover to charging hole.
* Removes cover on hole at top of digester to dump spent wood from digester at end of extraction process.
Industry:Professional careers
