- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who pays purses (winnings) to owners of winning horses and receives deposits from owners for expenses at racetrack. Responsibilities include:
* Receives deposits from owners desiring to claim horses in claiming race and for racing expenses, such as entry and rider fees and stable expenses.
* Pays owners of winning horses amounts specified on official programs.
* Pays claiming price to sellers, pays racing expenses for owners, and debits accounts.
* Periodically balances owners' accounts.
* Notifies owners when accounts are overdrawn or writes checks to close accounts.
* Compiles and records information concerning ownership of horses for submission to racing officials.
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 directs and coordinates activities of industrial organization to obtain optimum efficiency and economy of operations and maximize profits. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and develops organization policies and goals, and implements goals through subordinate administrative personnel.
* Coordinates activities of divisions or departments, such as operating, manufacturing, engineering, planning, sales, maintenance, or research and development, to effect operational efficiency and economy.
* Directs and coordinates promotion of products manufactured or services performed to develop new markets, increase share of market, and obtain competitive position in industry.
* Analyzes division or department budget requests to identify areas in which reductions can be made, and allocates operating budget.
* Confers with administrative personnel, and reviews activity, operating, and sales reports to determine changes in programs or operations required.
* Directs preparation of directives to division or department administrator outlining policy, program, or operations changes to be implemented.
* Promotes organization in industry, manufacturing or trade associations.
* Workers are usually identified according to industry in which employed, such as petroleum production or refining, iron and steel, electrical equipment; type of organization, such as air, rail, motor or water transportation; or type of product, such as paper, chemical, or plastics products.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs secretarial duties in public or private school. Responsibilities include:
* Composes, or transcribes from rough draft, correspondence, bulletins, memorandums, and other material, using typewriter or computer.
* Compiles and files student grade and attendance reports and other school records.
* Greets visitors to school, determines nature of business, and directs visitors to destination.
* Talks with student encountering problem and resolves problem or directs student to other worker.
* Answers telephone to provide information, take message, or transfer calls.
* May order and dispense school supplies.
* May accept and deposit funds for lunches, school supplies, and student activities.
* May disburse funds, record financial transactions, and audit and balance student-organization and other school-fund accounts.
* May take dictation in shorthand and transcribe notes, using typewriter or computer.
* May maintain calendar of school events.
* May oversee student playground activities and monitor classroom during temporary absence of teacher.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who searches public and private records and indices to compile list of legal instruments pertaining to property titles, such as mortgages, deeds, and assessments, for insurance, real estate, or tax purposes. Responsibilities include:
* Reads search request to ascertain type of title evidence required, and to obtain legal description of property and names of involved parties.
* Compares legal description of property with legal description contained in records and indices, to verify such factors as deed of ownership, tax code and parcel number, and description of property's boundaries.
* Requisitions maps or drawings delineating property from company title plant, county surveyor, or assessor's office.
* Confers with realtors, lending institution personnel, buyers, sellers, contractors, surveyors, and courthouse personnel to obtain additional information.
* Compiles list of transactions pertaining to property, using legal description or name of owner to search lot books, geographic and general indices, or assessor's rolls.
* Examines title to determine if there are any restrictions which would limit use of property, prepares report listing restrictions, and indicates action needed to remove restrictions to clear title.
* Compiles information and documents required for title binder.
* Prepares title commitment and final policy of title insurance based on information compiled from title search.
* May specialize in searching tax records and be designated Tax Searcher (real estate).
* May use computerized system to retrieve additional documentation needed to complete real estate transaction.
* May retrieve and examine closing files to determine accuracy of information and to ensure that information included is recorded and executed according to regulations governing real estate industry.
* May prepare closing statement, utilizing knowledge of and expertise in real estate procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates reeling machine to round out and burnish inside and outside surfaces of seamless steel tubes. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets distance between rolls according to size of pipe shell and positions mandrel support bar between rolls.
* Installs specified plug on mandrel.
* Moves controls to push tube along conveyor, through stationary guides, and into rotating rolls that force tube over mandrel.
* Turns handwheel to maintain roll pressure on pipe shell to smooth surfaces and round out tube to specified diameter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine to roll specified flanges on metal disks and dished heads. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects and bolts fixture onto free moving ram and powered turntable.
* Lifts and centers workpiece onto block or fixture on turntable, using hoist, sledge, rule, and tape.
* Pulls lever to lower ram onto workpiece, clamping it onto turntable.
* Selects and bolts rollers to spindles of machine, with edge of workpiece between rollers.
* Turns handwheel to adjust rollers to thickness and curvature of metal and to exert bending pressure.
* Starts machine which rotates edge of workpiece through rollers.
* Readjusts curvature and bending pressure to form specified flange on workpiece.
* Verifies curve of flange, using template.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts examinations and flight tests to determine individual's ability to qualify for aircraft pilot's license. Administers both oral and written examinations to determine applicant's knowledge of flight rules and regulations, communications, and airport landing procedures. Accompanies pilot on check flight to assess flying skill, stability under emergency conditions, and ability to maintain control of aircraft under flying emergencies. Issues pilot's license to individuals meeting standards. Investigates aircraft accidents and complaints to determine cause and responsibility. Prepares accident and flight activity reports. Recommends changes in federal flight rules and regulations based on knowledge of operating conditions, aircraft improvements, and other factors. Observes flight activities of crop dusters, flying schools charter services, private pilots, and other licensed aircraft owners within assigned geographical area to ensure conformance to flight and safety regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates hoop-bending machine to bend and shape iron rods into hoops for wooden tanks. Respnsibilities include:
* Loosens nut of adjusting block and positions roller to obtain specified diameter of hoop.
* Starts machine and inserts end of rod through feed rollers of machine and over bending roller.
* Strikes end of rod with wooden maul to start rod over roll.
* Turns handcrank of feed roller to force rod through machine, bending rod into semicircular or circular shape.
* Removes bent rod from machine and stacks rod on floor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives automobiles of service customers to determine origin of noises and leaks, and repairs or adjusts components to eliminate cause of complaint. Respnsibilities include:
* Drives vehicle, or accompanies customer on test drive, to listen for rattles, squeaks, or other noises reported by customer, indicating malfunctioning or loose components.
* Diagnoses cause and determines origin of defect.
* Makes minor repairs to vehicle, such as tightening muffler and exhaust pipe brackets, loose bolts, and door handles.
* Reports need for more extensive repairs to automobile mechanic.
* Sprays site of water leak, identified by customer, using water hose.
* Repairs leak, using adhesive compound, or replaces faulty rubber or fiber molding on doors and windows, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
