- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who issues licenses or permits to qualified applicants. Responsibilities include:
* Questions applicant to obtain information, such as name, address, and age, and records data on prescribed forms.
* Evaluates information obtained to determine applicant qualification for licensure.
* Collects prescribed fee.
* Issues driver, automobile, marriage, or other license.
* May conduct oral, visual, written, or performance test to determine applicant qualifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs administration of statewide merit system qualifying examinations. Responsibilities include:
* Formulates policies and procedures on recruitment, testing, placement, classification, and salary administration.
* Confers with school officials and superintendents of public buildings to arrange for space to conduct examinations.
* Verifies applicability and authenticity of examination and inventories examination materials to prevent errors and unauthorized use.
* Effects liaison with public officials, employee groups, and general public to promote program objectives.
* May proctor examinations and participate in oral interviews with applicants.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tests ores and minerals and analyzes results to determine value and properties of components, using spectrographic analysis, chemical solutions, and chemical or laboratory equipment, such as furnaces, beakers, graduates, pipettes, and crucibles. Responsibilities include:
* Separates metals or other components from dross materials by solution, flotation, or other liquid processes, or by dry methods, such as application of heat to form slags of lead, borax, and other impurities.
* Weighs residues on balance scale to determine proportion of pure gold, silver, platinum, or other metals or components.
* May specialize in testing and analyzing precious metals and be designated Gold-And-Silver Assayer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists roof-cement-and-paint maker in making roof cement. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs sacks filled with materials to make roof cement and paint and dumps contents from sacks onto conveyor leading to mixing machine.
* Places cans under spigot of mixing machine.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who appraises improved or unimproved real property to determine value for purchase, sale, investment, mortgage, or loan purposes. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews persons familiar with property and immediate surroundings, such as contractors, home owners, and other realtors to obtain pertinent information.
* Inspects property for construction, condition, and functional design and takes property measurements.
* Considers factors, such as depreciation, reproduction costs, value comparison of similar property, and income potential, when computing final estimation of property value.
* Considers location and trends or impending changes that could influence future value of property.
* Searches public records for transactions, such as sales, leases, and assessments.
* Photographs interiors and exteriors of property, to assist in estimating property value, to substantiate findings, and to complete appraisal report.
* Prepares written report, utilizing data collected and submits report to corroborate value established.
* May direct activities of appraisers.
* May evaluate staff job performance and recommend measures to improve performance according to establishment policies and procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparing noon meals in school or school system cafeterias. Responsibilities include:
* Plans menus of nutritional value.
* Purchases foods and supplies.
* Consults with administrative staff and principal to develop policies and procedures for operating school kitchens and cafeterias.
* Conducts research program to improve existing practices and services.
* Keeps records required by other governmental agencies regarding milk subsidies and surplus foods.
* Directs hiring and training of employees.
* Prepares budgetary reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reviews insurance applications to ensure that all questions have been answered. Corresponds with sales personnel to inform them of status of application being processed, and to encourage prompt delivery of policies to policyholders. May collect initial premiums and issue receipts. May compile periodic reports on new business for management.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dumps salvaged pitch into heated filtering kettle that filters pitch for reuse in blocking lens blanks. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valve to drain filtered pitch into cooling troughs and breaks up solidified pitch with hand tamper.
* Loads pitch into containers and delivers to blocking-machine tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machines that mix ingredients, such as pigments, resins, varnishes, solvents, and oils to produce ink or ink paste. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads specifications to determine type and quantity of ingredients to be mixed.
* Starts pumps to transport preweighed liquid ingredients from storage tanks into containers.
* Weighs specified amounts of pigments and adds them to containers.
* Dumps contents of containers into rotary mixer, using hoist, or moves container onto bed of mixer and turns wheel that lowers mixing blades into containers.
* Starts motor to mix ingredients for predetermined time.
* Draws sample or scoops sample of solution for laboratory analysis.
* Adds ingredients as directed by laboratory, or extends mixing period to attain prescribed consistency.
* Scoops or pumps ink or ink paste to holding tanks or into containers.
* May heat solvents in kettle or with steam coil to remove chill before adding pigments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of statistical clerks engaged in compiling power-generation and transmission data, preparing charts and graphs, and in making statistical computation for utility district. Responsibilities include:
* Directs maintenance and storage of records, such as maps, right-of-way deeds, and joint-use agreements.
* Compiles running totals of power produced by various generating units and totals of power exchanged with connecting systems, using calculator and adding machine.
* Analyzes and interprets trends to assist in planning budgets and construction expenditures, conferring with management, department heads, and large industrial customers.
* Directs preparation of power-generation and transmission charts and graphs to show trends in sales, operating costs, and revenue of company.
* May assist in making rate analyses, applying statistical method to investigate comparative rates with other utilities and to calculate rate formulas.
* May compile data for various power consumption reports required by government and utility associations.
* May compute percentages of monthly increase or decrease in gas consumption.
* May calculate sellers' weekly commissions.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
