- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends continuous-process equipment that purifies mercury recovered from electrolytic cells. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns compressed air and water valves to start flow of mercury through acid bath and purification towers that remove contaminants from mercury.
* Drains purified mercury into storage tank.
* Refills purifying towers with mercurous nitrate purifying agent and verifies specific gravity of nitrate, using hydrometer, to ensure efficient purification.
* Cleans and flushes towers, using water hose.
* Records weight of mercury purified during shift.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers nonjudicial functions of court. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates activities such as jury selection, notification, and utilization, case scheduling and tracking, personnel assignment, and space and equipment allocation to accomplish orderly processing of court cases.
* Investigates problems that affect case flow and recommends or implements corrective measures.
* Compiles and analyzes data on court activity to monitor management performance and prepare activity reports.
* Conducts research to analyze current and alternative personnel, facilities, and data management systems and consults with judicial staff of court to evaluate findings and recommendations.
* May oversee accounting of revenues and expenditures and prepare and justify budget.
* May resolve questions and complaints raised by court personnel, attorneys, and members of other organizations and public.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reviews assets and liabilities of estate to determine that insurance is adequate for financial protection of estate. Responsibilities include:
* Studies legal instruments, such as wills, trusts, business agreements, life insurance policies, and government benefits to estimate value and expenses of estate.
* Computes expenses, taxes, and debts to determine value of adjusted gross estate, using knowledge of accounting and tax laws.
* Prepares and discusses insurance program with client that will provide maximum financial security for family and protect investments.
* Suggests purchase of additional or new life insurance when analysis of estate indicates need for meeting cash demands at death.
* Discusses legal instruments with family attorney if study indicates need for change.
* May be required to hold state license.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that removes dirt and other foreign particles from salt prior to storage or processing into commercial products. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts conveyor that transfers required quantity of salt into tank of water to prepare saline solution of specified density.
* Turns valve to admit cleaning solution into machine.
* Observes operation to detect equipment malfunction and to ensure that salt meets standards of cleanliness.
* Pumps dirty solution into tank and adds soda ash and lime to cause dirt and foreign matter to precipitate and settle.
* Draws sample of clean solution for laboratory analysis.
* May be designated according to stage of treatment at which salt is cleaned as Salt Washer, Harvesting Station; Salt Washer, Processing Station.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates programs, transactions, and security measures of financial institution. Responsibilities include:
* Examines institution operations to evaluate efficiency.
* Plans and implements new operating procedures to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
* Directs receipt and disbursement of funds and acquisition and sale of other assets.
* Approves agreements affecting capital transactions.
* Directs safekeeping, control, and accounting of assets and securities.
* Ensures that institution reserves meet legal requirements.
* Analyzes financial and operating statements of institution, and reports and makes recommendations to management or board of directors in regard to financial policies and programs.
* May participate as member of committee deciding on extending lines of credit to commercial enterprises and other organizations.
* May be designated according to type of financial institution, such as Treasurer, Savings Bank.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls agitator tank to wash (mix) benzol, benzene, toluene, and xylene with sulfuric acid and caustic soda to remove impurities. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves and starts pumps to charge agitator vessel with specified amount of benzol or derivatives.
* Drains measured quantity of acid into vessel and starts agitator to mix contents for specified time.
* Stops agitator to allow acid and sludge to settle.
* Draws sample of washed product for laboratory colorimetry test to determine need for further washing.
* Opens valve, using wrench, to drain excess acid and sludge, adds caustic soda solution to neutralize remaining acid, and measures alkalinity, using standard titration test.
* Adds water, agitates mixture to wash out traces of caustic, and drains off water after contents have settled.
* Pumps washed benzol or derivatives into storage tank.
* Turns valves to admit steam to sludge kettle, solidifying sludge.
* Lifts kettle cover, using chain hoist, and removes sludge from kettle.
* May distill washed benzol in batch still.
* May remove impurities from crude ethylbenzene by adding lime and water and agitating mixture.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities concerned with handling and storing ammunition, rockets, mines, and other explosive components at ammunition supply depot or arsenal. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews invoices and requisitions to plan work activities.
* Prepares schedules for storing incoming and issuing ammunition specifying magazine or bunker number for storing each type of ammunition, quantity to store in bunker or magazine, and numerical order of bunkers or magazines from which to issue requisitioned ammunition.
* Enforces, through subordinate personnel, worker compliance with established safety regulations, and method and procedures for handling and storing each type of ammunition.
* Inspects bunkers and magazines to ensure that automatic safeguards and control instrumentation are operative and security measures are in force.
* Prepares reports and correspondence and directs clerical personnel in typing reports and record keeping activities.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who scans loaded trays carried by patrons in hotel or restaurant cafeteria to compute bill. Responsibilities include:
* Operates machine similar to cash register to compute bill and presents check to patron for payment to cashier ii.
* May operate adding machine and present tape rather than check to customer for payment.
* May act as cashier ii.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls fractionating columns, compressors, purifying towers, heat exchangers, and related equipment to extract nitrogen and oxygen from air for industrial and therapeutic use. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves in specified sequence to control flow of air through series of units that compress and liquefy it, remove carbon dioxide and impurities, and separate resulting product into nitrogen and oxygen.
* Observes pressure, temperature, level, and flow gauges to ensure standard operation.
* Tests oxygen for purity and moisture content at various stages of process, using burette and moisture meter.
* Adjusts equipment according to test results and knowledge of process and equipment.
* Opens valves to transfer liquid or gaseous oxygen through heat exchanger to cool air, to heat and vaporize liquid oxygen, and to store gaseous or liquid oxygen in storage tanks at specified temperature and pressure.
* Turns valves to transfer compressed oxygen to storage cylinders.
* Cleans and repairs equipment, such as replacing defective valves and removing carbon from valves, using handtools and airhose.
* Records gauge readings and test results.
* May open valves to convey hot nitrogen through alternate batteries of driers to remove moisture.
* May clean and refill drier with activated alumina.
* May operate equipment to extract, compress, and liquefy hydrogen from natural gas and be designated Liquid-Hydrogen-Plant Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who provides information and assistance to public and performs variety of clerical tasks in office of congressional legislator. Responsibilities include:
* Answers requests for information and assistance from constituents and other members of public, by phone or in person, using knowledge of governmental agencies and programs and source materials, such as agency listings and directories.
* Transcribes reports and types letters, using electric typewriter.
* Operates telecopier to receive and send messages, reports, and other documents.
* Opens and sorts mail according to addressee or type of assistance or information requested.
* Maintains record of telephone calls.
* Files correspondence, reports, and documents.
* Occasionally composes correspondence in response to written requests.
* Occasionally contacts other governmental or private agencies to act as liaison on behalf of constituents.
Industry:Professional careers
