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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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Company Profile:
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cleaning and restoring interiors of homes damaged by fire, smoke, or water. Respnsibilities include: * Schedules work crews according to type and extent of interior damage to home. * Inventories, requisitions, and issues supplies and equipment. * Trains and supervises workers in methods of cleaning and restoring interiors of homes, including floors, walls, ceilings, carpet, upholstery, and draperies. * Inspects completed work and work in progress for conformance to standards. * Resolves workers' problems or refers matters to management. * Explains methods of restoration and attempts to persuade prospective customers to contract for services.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and restores interiors of homes damaged by fire, smoke, or water, using commercial cleaning equipment. Respnsibilities include: * Receives work orders and schedules from supervisor. * Drives van equipped with floor-mounted or portable commercial carpet, upholstery, and interior cleaning machines, tools, and supplies to work site. * Cleans carpet, upholstery, floors, walls, ceilings, draperies, windows, and room accessories to remove effects of smoke and water damage such as dirt, soot, stains, mildew, and excess water and moisture, using commercial cleaning machines mounted in van with extension hoses or portable cleaning machines and variety of work aids, such as vacuum cleaners, chemical cleaning solutions, ladders, drop cloths, sponges, buckets, mops, and brushes. * Places fans and dehumidifiers in strategic room locations to remove moisture from carpet, upholstery, and air. * Verifies moisture presence and removal with moisture sensor. * Sprays or fogs carpet, upholstery, and accessories with fabric conditioners and protectors, deodorizers, and disinfectants, using hand and power sprayers and electric foggers, applying knowledge of types of fabrics, dyes, and chemical sprays. * Inspects completed restoration to ensure conformance to standards. * Collects payments and discusses results of work with customers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans and restores interiors of homes damaged by fire, smoke, or water, using commercial cleaning equipment. Respnsibilities include: * Receives work orders and schedules from supervisor. * Drives van equipped with floor-mounted or portable commercial carpet, upholstery, and interior cleaning machines, tools, and supplies to work site. * Cleans carpet, upholstery, floors, walls, ceilings, draperies, windows, and room accessories to remove effects of smoke and water damage such as dirt, soot, stains, mildew, and excess water and moisture, using commercial cleaning machines mounted in van with extension hoses or portable cleaning machines and variety of work aids, such as vacuum cleaners, chemical cleaning solutions, ladders, drop cloths, sponges, buckets, mops, and brushes. * Places fans and dehumidifiers in strategic room locations to remove moisture from carpet, upholstery, and air. * Verifies moisture presence and removal with moisture sensor. * Sprays or fogs carpet, upholstery, and accessories with fabric conditioners and protectors, deodorizers, and disinfectants, using hand and power sprayers and electric foggers, applying knowledge of types of fabrics, dyes, and chemical sprays. * Inspects completed restoration to ensure conformance to standards. * Collects payments and discusses results of work with customers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who takes care of church buildings and furnishings. Respnsibilities include: * Performs cleaning and routine maintenance duties in church and auxiliary buildings and in churchyard, or gives directions to other workers so engaged. * Takes care of vestments and sacred vessels and prepares altar for religious services according to prescribed rite. * Opens and locks church before and after services. * Rings bells to announce services and other church events. * Tends furnace and boiler to provide heat. * May order cleaning supplies. * May act as usher during services, maintain attendance count, and conduct visitors between services. * May take part in conduct of services performing activities, such as lighting candles. * May maintain church cemetery. * May patrol church premises to provide security against vandalism and theft.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives industrial vacuum cleaner through designated areas, such as factory aisles and warehouses, to collect scrap, dirt, and other refuse. * Empties trash collecting box or bag at end of each shift. * May sift refuse to recover usable materials, such as screws, metal scrap, or machine parts. * May clean machine, using rags and vacuum cleaner. * May refuel machine and lubricate parts. * May hand sweep areas inaccessible to machine and pick up scrap.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sprays chemical solutions or toxic gases and sets mechanical traps to kill pests that infest buildings and surrounding areas. Respnsibilities include: * Fumigates rooms and buildings, using toxic gases. * Sprays chemical solutions or dusts powders in rooms and work areas. * Places poisonous paste or bait and mechanical traps where pests are present. * May clean areas that harbor pests, using rakes, brooms, shovels, and mops, preparatory to fumigating. * May be required to hold state license. * May be designated according to type of pest eliminated as Rodent Exterminator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who delivers, installs, and services air deodorizing and sanitizing devices in commercial, institutional, and public establishments. Respnsibilities include: * Drives delivery truck to convey deodorizing devices and chemical refills to building of customers. * Attaches deodorizing devices (dispensers) to walls, using handtools, or places device unattached at various locations of customer's building. * Places nontoxic chemical into deodorizing containers. * May clean deodorizing device, using wire brush, or remove unit, if defective. * May clean and disinfect equipment, such as urinals, toilet bowls, and washbasins, using brushes, sponges, and cleaning agents.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who delivers, installs, and services air deodorizing and sanitizing devices in commercial, institutional, and public establishments. Respnsibilities include: * Drives delivery truck to convey deodorizing devices and chemical refills to building of customers. * Attaches deodorizing devices (dispensers) to walls, using handtools, or places device unattached at various locations of customer's building. * Places nontoxic chemical into deodorizing containers. * May clean deodorizing device, using wire brush, or remove unit, if defective. * May clean and disinfect equipment, such as urinals, toilet bowls, and washbasins, using brushes, sponges, and cleaning agents.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans windows, glass partitions, mirrors, and other glass surfaces of building interior or exterior, using pail of soapy water or other cleaner, sponge, and squeegee. * Crawls through window from inside and hooks safety belt to brackets for support, sets and climbs ladder to reach second or third story, or uses bosun's chair, swing stage, or other scaffolding lowered from roof to reach outside windows, or stands to reach first floor or inside windows.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cleans windows, glass partitions, mirrors, and other glass surfaces of building interior or exterior, using pail of soapy water or other cleaner, sponge, and squeegee. * Crawls through window from inside and hooks safety belt to brackets for support, sets and climbs ladder to reach second or third story, or uses bosun's chair, swing stage, or other scaffolding lowered from roof to reach outside windows, or stands to reach first floor or inside windows.
Industry:Professional careers