- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who develops program content, organizes, and leads activities planned to enhance social development of individual members and accomplishment of group goals. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews individual members to assess social and emotional capabilities and plans group composition in relation to personal and social compatibility of members.
* Selects program appropriate to particular group goals, level of development, needs, capacities, and interests of group members.
* Involves members in planning and assuming responsibility for activities.
* Helps members through group experience to develop attitudes and social skills for improved family relations and community responsibility.
* May secure supplementary information, such as medical records and school reports.
* May work in collaboration with other professional disciplines.
* Refers members, when indicated, to community resources and other organizations.
* Employed in agencies, such as community center, settlement house, youth serving organization, institution for children or aged, hospital, or penal institution.
* Usually required to have skills acquired through degree program at school of social work.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of crew aboard dredge (vessel equipped with machinery to excavate under water) used in building of structures in harbors, estuaries, straits, sounds, rivers, lakes, bays, and oceans. Responsibilities include:
* Examines dredging gear and lifesaving equipment, and orders crew to repair or replace defective gear and equipment.
* Stands watch during specified periods, and determines geographical position of ship, upon request of dredge captain, using loran and azimuths of celestial bodies.
* Directs activities of crew engaged in dredging operations.
* Assumes command of ship in event dredge captain becomes incapacitated.
* Worker required to hold license issued by U.S.
* Coast Guard.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who factors (purchases at discount) accounts receivable from businesses needing operating capital. Responsibilities include:
* Directs collection of facts about prospective client's business, such as credit rating of customers, evaluation of past losses, terms of sales, due dates, average amount of invoices, and expected volume and turnover of accounts receivable.
* Evaluates data collected to determine type of factoring plan to propose and percentage of net face value of accounts to advance which will yield favorable profit margin and alleviate client's cash shortage.
* Determines charge from fee schedule.
* Explains factoring agreement to client.
* Prepares and signs contract specifying terms of agreement and rights and obligations of both parties.
* May provide clients with other business services, such as credit and collection services, accounts receivable bookkeeping, and management consulting, on contract or fee basis.
* May specialize in factoring agreements in one or more industries.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines gemstones, such as jade, sapphires, and rubies, to evaluate their genuineness, quality, and value, utilizing knowledge of gems and market valuations. Responsibilities include:
* Examines gem surfaces and internal structure, using polariscope, refractometer, microscope, and other optical instruments, to differentiate between stones, identify rare specimens, or to detect flaws, defects, or peculiarities affecting gem values.
* Immerses stones in prescribed chemical solutions to determine specific gravities and key properties of gemstones or substitutes, which indicate physical characteristics of stone for gem identification, quality determination, and for appraisal.
* Grades stones for color, perfection, and quality of cut.
* Estimates wholesale and retail value of gems, following pricing guides, market fluctuations, and various economic changes that affect distribution of precious stones.
* May advise customers and others in use of gems to create attractive jewelry items.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and directs establishment of collection routes and assignment of personnel and equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates activities of workers concerned with sewage treatment, recycling or incineration plants, and landfill activities of disposal sites.
* Conducts field inspections to evaluate efficiency of sanitation program and to determine that residents are adhering to regulations.
* Notifies individuals of violations and initiates actions to obtain compliance with regulations.
* Supervises workers engaged in investigation of complaints and collection of delinquent accounts, where user assessments are imposed.
* Supervises persons engaged in preparation of cost and operational reports and compiles budget estimates for review and approval of authorities.
* Confers with engineering and other technical personnel to advise and assist in development, design, and installation of sanitation facilities.
* Prepares material such as handbills or press releases to keep public informed of changes in regulations.
* May direct one phase of sanitation services, as recycling, incineration, or sewage treatment, and be designated Superintendent, Refuse Disposal; Superintendent, Sewage-Treatment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates quality inspection of parts, components, and materials produced by subcontractors and vendors, and surveillance of subcontractors' manufacturing processes. Responsibilities include:
* Directs sampling inspection, and testing of received parts, components, and materials to determine conformance to standards.
* Conducts periodic and special surveys of subcontractors' facilities and manufacturing processes to determine adequacy and capability of quality control and ability to comply with complete quality specifications.
* Reviews quality problems with engineering personnel and directs action required to correct defects.
* Prepares periodic and special reports concerning departmental activities, problems, subcontractors' quality system, schedules, and rejected items.
* Aids in organizational planning by participating in departmental conferences.
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 tends centrifugal drier that removes water or other liquids from slurries. Respnsibilities include:
* Inserts filter cloth and screen in basket of centrifugal drum.
* Lowers bell-shaped cover over outlet in bottom of basket if unit is bottom-discharge type and shovels, pours, or pumps slurry into basket.
* Closes lid if unit is top-discharge type.
* Starts basket revolving and moves control to regulate speed, according to specifications.
* Lifts bell, lowers blade to cut crystallized cake from walls of basket, and pushes centrifuged mass through outlet into containers or onto conveyor, using paddle.
* May release trap door, start pumps, or shovel material from basket to unload drier.
* May turn steam or fuel valves to heat drier basket or drum to maintain centrifuged material at specified temperature while drying.
* When drying and discharging salt, may be designated Salt Cutter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of Secretary of State office to assist Executive and Legislative Branches of State Government under authority of state statutory and constitutional provisions. Responsibilities include:
* Directs activities of workers engaged in preserving records of official acts performed by Governor and Legislative bodies.
* Directs distribution of laws, resolutions, and other official state documents.
* Examines corporate articles or corporate statements of qualification to approve or disallow petitions for incorporation, amendments to corporate articles, dissolutions, and agreements of merger or consolidation.
* Administers Uniform Commercial Code to protect secured interest of retail merchants and lending institutions.
* Approves licensing of notaries public.
* Receives for processing, recording, and filing documents, such as deeds to state lands, claims to fraternal names and insignia, manuscripts, oaths of office, organization and boundaries of public districts, administrative rules and regulations adopted by state agencies, and statements of trust receipt financing.
* Directs activities involved in preserving historical documents and public records in state archives.
* May interpret and enforce election laws.
* May tabulate and certify accuracy of election returns.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes duties, tariffs, and weight, volume, and price conversions of merchandise exported to or imported from foreign countries. Responsibilities include:
* Examines documents, such as invoices, bills of lading, and shipping statements, to verify conversion of merchandise weights or volumes into system used by other country.
* Converts foreign currency figures into United States monetary equivalents, or domestic currency into foreign equivalents, using rate charts.
* Calculates duties or tariffs to be paid on merchandise, using calculating machine.
* May correspond with foreign companies.
* May be designated according to type of transaction as Customs-Entry Clerk; Export Clerk; Import Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
