- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who controls audio equipment to regulate volume level and quality of sound during television broadcasts, according to script and instructions of director, technical . Responsibilities include:
* Places microphones or directs worker in placing microphones in locations that ensure quality of sound reproduction.
* Cuts microphones in, and blends output of individual microphones by adjusting volume, fader, and mixer controls.
* Monitors audio signals by earphone, loudspeaker, and by observing dials on control panel to verify quality of sound reproduction.
* Sets keys, switches, and dials to synchronize sound with picture presentation.
* Obtains tapes, records, and themes from library according to program schedule.
* Operates turntables and tape recording machines to reproduce music and audio sounds for specific programs.
* May direct adjustment of acoustical curtains and blinds within studio.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who weighs and dumps specified dry materials into feeder hopper of crutcher equipment, that forms slurry for processing into soap powder. Respnsibilities include:
* Opens valves of supply tanks and waterlines to add prescribed liquid and paste.
* Mixes dye according to specifications and dumps dye into batch.
* Changes and cleans strainers.
* Sweeps and cleans work area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates keyboard of computer terminal equipped with video display screen to record data from manuscript for storage and retrieval into and from computer system for subsequent reproduction as printed matter. Responsibilities include:
* Reads instructions on worksheet to obtain codes which direct specific computer activity and depresses command keys on terminal keyboard to store or retrieve data.
* Reads manuscript and types on keyboard to record and store data into computer memory.
* Reads corrected proof sheet and depresses keys to retrieve specified portions of text for display on video screen.
* Observes screen to locate text to be corrected and types corrections.
* Maintains log of activities.
* If worker operates similar equipment to perforate $T3paper tape$T1 used to activate photocomposing machine, see photocomposing-perforator-machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who works through community action programs to ameliorate social conditions tending to cause juvenile delinquency and provides counseling and guidance to juveniles. Responsibilities include:
* Aids civil authorities to plan urban, suburban, and rural development to ensure provisions for meeting social needs of youth.
* Works with individuals and groups in danger of becoming delinquent, through individual and group guidance and through use of community resources.
* Refers juveniles to community agencies, such as settlement houses, child guidance clinics, and health clinics, for mental, physical, and social rehabilitation.
* Works closely with law enforcement agencies, schools, employers, health, welfare, and recreation agencies.
* Usually attached to public agency.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine, similar to typewriter, to impress dots in metal sheets for making braille books, transcribing from prepared copy or original script. Responsibilities include:
* Inserts metal sheet into machine carriage.
* Depresses one or combination of keys to form braille letter.
* Depresses pedal that forces punches to impress on metal sheet combinations of dots that distinguish braille letters.
* If worker is blind, transcribes from recorded rather than manuscript copy.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities and provides for physical and emotional needs of public-welfare recipients housed in indigent camp. Responsibilities include:
* Cooperates with welfare department investigators, psychologists, and physicians in assigning activities to indigents and in providing specialized attention to them in accordance with recommendations.
* Appoints leaders of activities, such as food preparation and maintenance of grounds, from camp inmates in accord with democratic leadership principles and welfare department policy.
* Coordinates sanitation, food management, health, education, spiritual counseling, and vocational activity programs in conformity with available facilities, needs of camp inmates, and policy of department.
* Interviews inmates and arranges with business and community leaders to place them in jobs.
* Maintains discipline and arbitrates disputes.
* Arranges for entertainment, such as movies, lectures, and musical programs.
* Maintains camp records, inventories supplies, and submits requisitions for camp needs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of handicapped individuals in sheltered workshop to train and improve vocational skills for gainful employment through productive work. Responsibilities include:
* Assigns individual to specific tasks, such as cleaning, sorting, assembling, repairing, or hand packing products or components.
* Demonstrates job duties to handicapped individual and observes worker performing tasks to ensure understanding of job duties.
* Monitors work performance at each individual's work station to ensure compliance with procedures and safety regulations and to note behavior deviations.
* Examines workpiece visually to verify adherence to specifications.
* Confers with individuals to explain or to demonstrate task again to resolve work related difficulties.
* Reassigns individual to simpler tasks when worker cannot perform assigned tasks, or to tasks containing higher degrees of complexity as level of competence is reached.
* Performs other duties described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds dry chemical ingredients used in manufacture of fertilizer and insecticides into mixing machine.
* Empties hoppers or sacks of specified ingredients into machine or elevator bucket, using forklift truck or by hand.
* May start elevator to empty buckets into machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates administrative activities of radiology department of hospital medical center. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts studies and implements changes to improve internal operations of department.
* Advises staff and supervisors on administrative changes.
* Assists hospital officials in preparation of department budget.
* Conducts specified classes and provides training material to assist in student training program.
* Directs and coordinates personnel activities of department.
* Recommends cost saving methods and hospital supply changes to effect economy of department operations.
* Interprets, prepares, and distributes statistical data regarding department operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of city departments of public works and utilities. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with officials responsible for street and building construction and maintenance, and for supplying water, power, sanitation, or other services to coordinate use of human resources and equipment and to consolidate purchasing requests.
* Reviews preliminary budgets and adjusts items for conformance to anticipated needs.
* Attends city council meetings to present budgets, activity reports, and plans for future activities.
* Confers with suppliers and sellers and places orders for equipment, materials, and supplies.
* May hire, promote, and discipline employees of departments supervised.
Industry:Professional careers
