- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who interprets architectural or engineering plans and prepares material lists and specifications to be used as standards by plant employees or contracting personnel in material processing or in manufacturing or construction activities. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes plans and diagrams, or observes and makes notes on material processing, to determine material and material processing specifications, or specifications for manufacturing or construction activities.
* Writes technical descriptions specifying material qualities and properties, utilizing knowledge of material standards, industrial processes, and manufacturing procedures.
* May draw rough sketches or arrange for finished drawings or photographs to illustrate specified materials or assembly sequence.
* Workers usually specialize and are designated according to engineering specialization, product, or process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who classifies, catalogs, and maintains library of computer tapes. Responsibilities include:
* Classifies reels and cartridges of magnetic computer tape according to content, purpose, principal user, date generated, or other criteria.
* Assigns identification number, following standard system.
* Prepares catalog of tapes classified, using logbook and computer.
* Stores tapes according to classification and identification number.
* Issues tapes and maintains charge-out records.
* Inspects returned tapes and notifies supervisor when tapes are worn or damaged.
* Removes obsolete tapes from library, following data retention requirements.
* May send tapes to vendor for cleaning and to off-site location for secure storage.
* May maintain files of program developmental records and operating instructions.
* May work in computer room operations, performing tasks such as loading and removing paper and printouts and reels of tape.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who answers employees' questions and records employee enrollment in benefits and group insurance programs. Responsibilities include:
* Explains and interprets company insurance program to employees and dependents.
* Answers questions regarding benefits, such as pension and retirement plan, and group insurance, such as life, hospitalization, and workers' compensation.
* Fills out application forms or verifies information on forms submitted by employees.
* Mails applications to insurance company.
* Files records of claims and fills out cancellation forms when employees leave company service.
* May correspond with or telephone physicians, hospitals, and employees regarding claims.
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 plans, directs, and coordinates activities of designated project to ensure that goals or objectives of project are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews project proposal or plan to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.
* Establishes work plan and staffing for each phase of project, and arranges for recruitment or assignment of project personnel.
* Confers with project staff to outline workplan and to assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority.
* Directs and coordinates activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget.
* Reviews status reports prepared by project personnel and modifies schedules or plans as required.
* Prepares project reports for management, client, or others.
* Confers with project personnel to provide technical advice and to resolve problems.
* May coordinate project activities with activities of government regulatory or other governmental agencies.
* See project engineer for engineering projects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who commands fishing vessel crew engaged in catching fish and other marine life. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews, hires, and gives instructions to crew, and assigns crew to watches and quarters.
* Plots courses on navigation charts and computes positions, using standard navigation aids, such as compass, sextant, clock, radio fix, and navigation tables.
* Steers vessel and operates electronic equipment, such as radio, sonic depth finder, and radar.
* Directs fishing operations, using knowledge of fishing grounds and work load capacities of vessel and crew.
* Records daily activities in ship's log.
* May purchase supplies and equipment for boat, such as food, fuel, webbing, rope, and cable.
* May tow and maneuver fish barges at cannery wharf.
* May contact buyers and make arrangements for sale of catch.
* May buy fish for resale and be designated Buy-Boat Operator, or haul fish from other fishing vessels to cannery and be designated Captain, Cannery Tender.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities related to admission of patients in hospital or other medical facility. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with physicians, and nursing, housekeeping, transport, and other staff members to coordinate and schedule admission of patient.
* Assigns accommodations based on physician's admittance orders, patient's preference, nature of illness, availability of space, and other information, and enters bed assignment information into computer.
* Prepares records of admission, transfer, and other required data.
* Notifies departments of patient's admission.
* Reviews clerical work of interviewers and other personnel.
* Keeps records of admissions and discharges, and compiles occupancy-census data.
* May interview patient or patient's representative to obtain necessary personal and financial data to determine eligibility for admission.
* May perform duties described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who registers visitors to public facilities, such as national or state parks, military bases, and monuments. Responsibilities include:
* Stops vehicles and pedestrians at gate and records name, nationality, home address, license plate number of vehicle, and time of entrance and departure.
* Cautions visitors about fires, wild animals, travel hazards, and domestic pets and informs them of laws and regulations pertaining to area.
* May issue information leaflets.
* May collect fees and issue entry and fire permits.
* May give talks describing historical, natural, or scenic points of area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates braille typewriter to transcribe reading matter for use by the blind. Responsibilities include:
* Reads copy and operates braille typewriter to emboss specially treated paper with various combinations of dots that characterize braille alphabet, using braille code form.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sorts and counts paper money, using automatic currency-counting machine. Responsibilities include:
* Examines money to detect and remove counterfeit, mutilated, and worn bills.
* Requisitions replacements.
* Sorts bills according to denomination or federal reserve district number, and inserts bills into slot or hopper of machine to be automatically counted.
* Verifies totals registered on machine against amount of deposit reported by member bank or depositor, using calculator, and posts shortage or overage to account.
* Bundles and wraps counted money to be placed in vault.
* May sort, count, and wrap coins (coin-counter-and-wrapper ).
Industry:Professional careers
