- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who plans, directs, and oversees implementation of comprehensive security systems for protection of individuals and homes, and business, commercial, and industrial organizations, and investigates various crimes against client. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects premises to determine security needs.
* Studies physical conditions, observes activities, and confers with client's staff to obtain data regarding internal operations.
* Analyzes compiled data and plans and directs installation of electronic security systems, such as closed circuit surveillance, entry controls, burglar alarms, ultrasonic motion detectors, electric eyes, and outdoor perimeter and microwave alarms.
* Directs installation and checks operation of electronic security equipment.
* Plans and directs personal security and safety of individual, family, or group for contracted period.
* Provides bulletproof limousine and bodyguards to ensure client protection during trips and outings.
* Suggests wearing bulletproof vest when appropriate.
* Plans and reviews client travel itinerary, mode of transportation, and accommodations.
* Travels with client and directs security operations.
* Investigates crimes committed against client, such as fraud, robbery, arson, and patent infringement.
* Reviews personnel records of client staff and conducts background investigation of selected members to obtain personal histories, character references, and financial status.
* Conducts or directs surveillance of suspects and premises to apprehend culprits.
* Notifies client of security weaknesses and implements procedures for handling, storing, safekeeping, and destroying classified materials.
* Reports criminal information to authorities and testifies in court.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates high energy (explosion) forming machine and associated equipment to shape metallic materials and parts used in manufacturing aeronautical and aerospace products, following operational procedures, blueprints, sketches, and specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews instructions to plan work procedure.
* Trims or assists other workers in trimming preformed part to approximate shape of specified die, using handtools and power tools.
* Positions part against die and seals edges, using sealing compound.
* Evacuates air between part and die, using vacuum pump, and submerges part and die into water of forming tank.
* Prepares and assembles explosive charge and positions charge in forming tank.
* Detonates charge which forces part into shape of die.
* Removes part from tank, and examines part for defects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in setting up and operating hydraulic-pressure-auto-frettage machines to cold-work interior of artillery barrels.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates furnace to heat aluminum slabs and fabricated forms to specified temperature for rolling or processing. Respnsibilities include:
* Sets furnace controls to regulate temperatures and heating time.
* Starts conveyors and opens furnace doors to admit slabs, plate, sheet, and coil, or signals overhead crane operator to uncover soaking pits and lower ingots into them.
* Observes pyrometer and adjusts rheostat controls to maintain temperature between specified limits.
* Measures temperature of product to determine necessity for adjusting furnace temperature or timing cycle, using thermal instruments and charts.
* Removes material from furnace, using crane, or signals overhead crane operator to transfer it to next station.
* Records time and production data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sets up and operates metal fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, saws, and presses, to cut, bend, straighten, and form metal plates, sheets, and structural shapes according to blueprints and specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads and interprets blueprints, engineering specifications, and shop orders to determine machine setup, production methods, and sequence of operation.
* Selects, positions, and secures dies, blades, cutters, and fixtures onto machine, using rule, square, shims, templates, handtools, and built-in gauges.
* Positions and clamps stops, guides, and turntables.
* Adjusts controls to set and regulate machining factors, such as pressure and depth of ram stroke, adjustment rolls, blade angle, and machine speed.
* Locates and marks bending or cutting lines and reference points on workpiece, using instruments, such as rule and compass, or by tracing from templates.
* Positions workpiece against stops and guides or aligns layout marks with dies or cutting blades manually or using hoist.
* Starts machine and observes machine operation to reposition workpiece, change dies, or adjust machine settings for multiple or successive passes.
* Inspects or measures work, using rule, gauges, and templates.
* May operate machines to fabricate nonmetallic materials, such as composites or plastics.
* May set up and operate sheet-metal fabricating machines only and be designated Sheet-Metal-Fabricating-Machine Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in heating, forming, and welding flat steel strips (skelp) to produce butt-welded pipe by continuous welding process.
* Examines pipe for conformance to dimensional specifications, using gauge and measuring tape.
* Records production.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs and maintains arc, gas, and resistance welding, brazing, and cutting machines, according to blueprints, catalogs, and data charts, applying knowledge of machine repair and welding. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects machine and observes operation to detect cause of malfunction.
* Disassembles machine, using handtools.
* Selects replacement parts from parts lists and catalogs, or repairs parts, such as hoses, electrode holders, valves, regulators, tubes, transformers, photoelectric cells, automatic wire feeds, bushings, bearings, conveyor links, and gears.
* Solders loose connections.
* Rewires electrical circuits.
* Replaces or repairs worn shafts and cams.
* Welds cracked or broken frames and housings.
* Reassembles machine, using handtools, welding and brazing equipment, and measuring instruments.
* Sets up and starts repaired machine to verify operation.
* May repair welding equipment.
* May be designated by specialty as resistance-welding machines repairer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in repair and maintenance of railroad locomotives. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads management and engineering reports of locomotive problems or malfunctions to determine repairs to be made.
* Assigns duties to workers based on worker abilities and nature of required repairs.
* Observes progress of work to ensure adherence to prescribed procedures and adherence to company and governmental standards.
* Directs workers to perform preventive maintenance of locomotive components, such as diesel engine, frame and housing, electrical system, and air brakes.
* Monitors stock of replacement parts to detect shortages of parts needed for future repair and maintenance, and requisitions needed parts.
* Examines shop equipment, such as welding machine and engine simulators, to verify that equipment meets safety and performance standards.
* Notifies specified personnel of shop equipment malfunctions.
* Patrols work sites to observe methods, to inspect safety equipment, and to ensure compliance with company, union, and governmental regulations.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs registry services for nurses, private duty according to regulations established by state or district professional nurses' association. Responsibilities include:
* Maintains roster of nurses available for duty.
* Refers nurses in response to requests.
* Keeps record of number and type of calls received.
* Analyzes problems of registry to render more efficient service and operations.
* Informs registrants of new and revised requirements and regulations.
* May assist in recruiting nurses for emergencies.
* May be responsible for financial administration of registry.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who erects and assembles farm machinery for use in field. Respnsibilities include:
* Uncrates components at freight station or dealer's warehouse, using crowbar and hammer.
* Assembles and adjusts machinery according to specifications, using handtools.
* Oils and greases moving parts.
* May deliver farm machinery to purchasers.
Industry:Professional careers
