- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who directs and coordinates vocational work programs in governmental correctional institution. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with administrative and supervisory staff of prison to schedule work programs consistent with security regulations, maintenance needs, and established vocational policy.
* Interviews and assigns inmates to vocational rehabilitation programs or work details in conformity with their education, previous skills, and available facilities of institution.
* Plans production assignments to meet output requirements and vocational instruction schedule.
* Establishes production standards and plans layout according to capacity of equipment, qualifications of staff, and procurement specifications of customers for prison-made products.
* Inspects equipment and facilities to recommend maintenance and replacement of obsolete machinery.
* Inventories and requisitions supplies to maintain efficient production.
* May prepare design drawings for production, according to customer specifications.
* May negotiate with purchasers to conclude contracts for manufactured products.
* May evaluate adequacy of vocational instruction and recommend changes in established curriculum, policies, and standards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in installing, maintaining, and testing communications and signalling equipment within specified jurisdiction of railroad. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews reports that describe handling of communications and signal irregularities to discern whether deployment of personnel and maintenance procedures followed administrative and labor regulations.
* Discusses causes of irregularities with supervisor who directed repairs to suggest changes in inspection or maintenance techniques that would prevent recurrence of irregularities, utilizing knowledge of communication and signal functioning.
* Writes summary of reports indicating worker overtime involved and nature of equipment malfunctions and routes reports to superior.
* Confers with company engineers regarding major repairs or installation projects in communication and signal system to stay apprised of changes within system.
* Confers with supervisors throughout projects to provide technical assistance and to ensure availability of equipment needed to complete project.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who posts positions of various aircraft flying within boundaries of dispatch area, on flight-following board. Responsibilities include:
* Reads messages received over telegraphic typewriter and posts data pertaining to position of airplanes on flight-following board.
* Notifies dispatcher or flight-information expediter of messages received regarding departure times, delays, mechanical difficulties, or unusual weather conditions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates telegraphic typewriter to send and receive messages. Responsibilities include:
* Turns on machine and types identifying code for station called or acknowledges calls from other stations.
* Types outgoing messages when stations are connected.
* Reads incoming messages to detect errors and presses lever to stop transmission when messages are garbled or overlined.
* Types requests for clarification.
* Enters date, time, and serial number on messages sent and received.
* Pastes messages received on tape on paper forms.
* May type messages on tape attachment and transmit them by inserting tape into machine when stations are connected.
* May be designated according to system used as Multiplex-Machine Operator.
* Important variations are kinds (trade names) of telegraphic typewriters operated.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles, verifies, and records client data in vocational rehabilitation facility. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews clients to obtain information, such as medical history and work limitations.
* Prepares and assists clients to complete routine intake and personnel forms.
* Gives and receives client information in person, by telephone, or mail to authorized persons.
* Prepares and types client attendance, training, and counseling reports from client records.
* Reviews training approval forms and payment vouchers for completeness and accuracy.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends water plant equipment that scrubs and purifies gases from smelting furnaces. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps and fans in scrubber towers and turns valves to regulate flow of water through nozzles.
* Pulls lever to open car bottom to unload lime from hopper cars into storage tanks.
* Knocks on bottom of hopper with pry bar or uses portable vibrator to loosen lime remaining in car.
* Dumps specified number of sacks of sulfate, hydroxide, and fluoride into mixer machines.
* Starts conveyors to transport mixed chemicals and lime to reactor tanks that make reagent solution.
* Observes control panel, records readings, and calculates solution temperatures, scrubber fan loads, and flow of treatment solutions, using charts and graphs.
* Changes basket screens in reactor tanks, using chain hoist, and cleans screens with water or steam.
* Collects samples of treatment solutions and sludge for laboratory analysis.
* Measures acidity or alkalinity of clarifier overflow to determine efficiency of impurity recovery, using pH meter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends acidulation tanks and auxiliary equipment that separate undesirable compounds from oils. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to fill tanks with basic materials and to admit prescribed amounts of sulfuric acid and caustic.
* Starts agitator that mixes and separates ingredients.
* Starts pumps or opens drain valve to transfer separated material into storage tanks.
* May draw sample to test for pH volume, using titration test.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates social, business, and personal affairs of employer. Confers with employer on contemplated social functions, sends invitations, and arranges for decorations and entertainment. Advises employer on etiquette, dress, and current events. Reads and answers routine correspondence, using typewriter or in own handwriting as situation demands. May manage financial affairs of entire house.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tumbler that removes water from rubberbands. Respnsibilities include:
* Carries tote box of bands from band-cutting machine and dumps bands into tumbler.
* Starts mechanism that rotates bands for specified time to remove moisture from bands.
* Removes and carries bands to bundling and boxing machines.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes, records, and pays dividends to customers of brokerage firm. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews stock records and reports to determine customer stock ownership on record date.
* Totals stock owned by customers and computes dividends due, using calculator.
* Records dividends due, and enters information into customer accounts, using computer.
* Reviews customer accounts to obtain dividend payment instructions, and pays dividends and interest due to customers.
* Solves dividend related problems with customer accounts, applying knowledge of policies and procedures concerning payment of dividends and interest.
* May perform other clerical tasks such as filing, typing, and operating office machines.
Industry:Professional careers
