- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who advises industries, business firms, and individuals concerning methods of preparation of freight for shipment, rates to be applied, and mode of transportation to be used. Responsibilities include:
* Consults with client regarding packing procedures and inspects packed or crated goods for conformance to shipping specifications to prevent damage, delay, or penalties.
* Selects mode of transportation, such as air, water, railroad, or truck without regard to higher rates when speed is necessary.
* Confers with shipping brokers concerning export and import papers, docking facilities, or packing and marking procedures.
* Files claims with insurance company for losses, damages, and overcharges of freight shipments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates work assignments and supervises clerical personnel preparing work schedules. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and prepares work force schedules from statistical data, such as budget estimates and telephone or telegraphic service and traffic records.
* Compiles previous traffic-flow counts from transmitting and receiving records, or supervises clerks engaged in compiling flow data to aid in predicting operating needs.
* Analyzes past flow counts, and personnel data, such as turnover, absenteeism, or overtime.
* Prepares or revises personnel schedules for long- or short-range periods, considering vacations and budget allotments.
* May direct preparation of comparative reports and charts to identify operating deficiencies.
* When working in telegraph offices, assigns personnel to branch offices within geographical area upon receipt of personnel shortage reports.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of field engineers in installing, testing, and operating portable field equipment used to broadcast programs or events from points distant from studio. Responsibilities include:
* Assigns field engineers with audio and relay equipment to various field pick-up points, to test equipment prior to broadcast.
* Directs workers in maintaining field transmission equipment in operating order.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects toll charged for use of bridges, highways, or tunnels by motor vehicles, or fare for vehicle and passengers on ferryboats. Responsibilities include:
* Collects money and gives customer change.
* Accepts toll and fare tickets previously purchased.
* At end of shift balances cash and records money and tickets received.
* May sell round-trip booklets.
* May be designated according to place of employment as Toll-Bridge Attendant; or type of fare as Vehicle-Fare Collector.
* May admit passengers through turnstile and be designated Turnstile Collector.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that recovers and reconditions mercury used in electrolytic cells. Respnsibilities include:
* Sweeps, shovels, and dumps mercury-bearing material onto vibrating screen that separates mercury.
* Flushes screen with water, using hose, and drains off water into settling tank, forming sludge.
* Ladles contaminated mercury and sludge into reclaiming kettle and turns valves to admit acid and steam to separate foreign matter from mercury.
* Drains mercury into flask.
* May break used cell anodes to salvage porcelain insulators and copper posts, using hammer.
* May tend concentrating table to remove mercury residue from scrap material for recovery.
* May weigh flasks of recovered mercury for inventory records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates electronic monitoring and related equipment to detect electronic emissions. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts continuous search and monitoring of assigned portions of radio frequency spectrum, using special search or monitoring equipment.
* Observes video presentations or listens to signal to determine primary characteristics of monitored signals.
* Operates cameras to photograph signals.
* Operates recorders to record signals.
* Determines azimuth from which signal originated, using direction finder procedures.
* Determines accurately and rapidly parameters, directional bearing, and point of origin of electronic data recorded on photographic film and magnetic tape through operation of technical laboratory analysis equipment, such as electronic parameter display consoles, oscilloscope, electronic counters and sorters, x-y plotters, sonographs, visographs, brush recorders, video and audio playback units, complex viewers, visual projectors, and associated analog and digital equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates automatic photocomposing-perforator machine equipped with keyboard to copy data from manuscript onto tape used in photocomposing machine. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts $T3paper tape$T1 in perforator.
* Clips copy in copy holder and starts perforator mechanism.
* Sets indexed dials to select line length, type size, film feed, and type face specified on manuscript.
* Depresses keys of keyboard to perforate coded signals in paper tape for subsequent activation of photocomposing machine.
* Removes perforated tape from perforator.
* Important variables are trade names of system operated.
* May operate similar machine equipped with video display terminal to edit and correct perforated tape as indicated by proofreader on reproduction proof.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines die design drawings prepared by die designer (machine shop) for accuracy of design detail and to assure production feasibility of die sets. Responsibilities include:
* Computes dimensions of drawings to check accuracy of figures and proper placement of layout.
* Ascertains that production parts can be fabricated with dies as designed by applying thorough knowledge of machine capacities.
* Returns erroneous drawings to original designer for correction, indicating orally, or in writing, changes to be made.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds conveyor and loads bones into tank of machine that extracts grease.
* Closes tank and seals cover.
* Rakes bones from tank after extraction process.
* Removes burlap filter from bottom of tank and washes and replaces filter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends press that removes water from nitrocellulose used in manufacturing smokeless powder and pyroxylin for use in plastics. Respnsibilities include:
* Pours specified amount of nitrocellulose into bottom cylinder of dehydrating press.
* Presses button or opens water valve to force plunger down onto bottom cylinder.
* Pumps alcohol into lower cylinder and through wet nitrocellulose to displace water.
* Removes cakes of water-free nitrocellulose and places them on handtruck for removal.
Industry:Professional careers
