- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who calculates latitude, longitude, angles, areas, and other information for mapmaking from field notes secured by engineering survey party, using reference tables and calculating machine or computer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs local or statewide services to promote understanding and resolution of senior citizens' problems. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and directs surveys and research studies of such problems as health needs and employment difficulties of older persons.
* Evaluates findings to formulate policies and techniques for improving adjustment of older citizens.
* Promotes establishment of or directs local programs and services, such as clinics and hobby groups.
* Coordinates programs of government, charitable, and religious organizations to avoid duplication.
* Prepares and distributes public information materials dealing with group problems.
* Delivers speeches and participates in discussions with community leaders and other interested parties to promote objectives of program.
* Recommends changes in legislation and public policy to promote interests of aged.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates computer terminal and related equipment to transfer and typeset display advertising data from perforated tape onto computer tapes for subsequent reproduction as printed matter. Responsibilities include:
* Secures perforated tape roll on machine reel and presses button to feed perforated tape into terminal console.
* Presses button to activate video display screen.
* Reads work order to determine combination of type style, point size, line width, and spacing to be set.
* Pushes terminal controls and depresses keys to observe and arrange elements on screen according to specifications.
* Measures copy margins to verify margin specifications, using ruler.
* Presses buttons to transfer typeset copy onto computer tape and into computer for storage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages theater for stage productions or motion pictures. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates activities of personnel to ensure efficient operation and to promote patronage of theater.
* Directs workers in making alterations to and repair of building.
* Manages financial business of theater.
* Determines price of admission and promotes theater events.
* Orders and sells theater tickets.
* Requisitions or purchases supplies.
* May book pictures or stage attractions designed to meet tastes of patrons.
* May negotiate contracts for scripts or performers.
* May solicit advertisements from business and community groups.
* May prepare and monitor theater schedules and budget.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of train crew engaged in transporting freight on freight train. Responsibilities include:
* Reads train orders, schedules, and other written instructions received from train dispatcher and discusses their contents with locomotive engineer and train crew.
* Inspects couplings and airhoses to ensure that they are securely fastened.
* Inspects journal boxes to ensure that they are lubricated.
* Inspects handbrakes on cars to ensure that they are released before train begins to run.
* Inspects freight cars to ensure that they are securely sealed.
* Records number of car and corresponding seal number and compares listing with waybill to ensure accuracy of routes and destinations.
* Compares watch with watch of locomotive engineer to ensure that departure time from station or terminal is in accordance with timetable schedules.
* Signals locomotive engineer via radiotelephone or by waving lantern to begin train run.
* Talks to locomotive engineer and traffic control center personnel via telephone during run to give or receive instructions or information concerning stops, delays, or oncoming trains.
* Instructs workers to set warning signals in front of and at rear of train during emergency stops to warn oncoming trains.
* Supervises workers engaged in inspection and maintenance of cars and mechanical equipment during run to ensure that train is operating efficiently and safely.
* Records time of departures and arrivals at all destinations.
* Prepares reports at end of run to explain accidents, unscheduled stops, or delays.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of workers engaged in preparing noon meals in school or school system cafeterias. Responsibilities include:
* Plans menus of nutritional value.
* Purchases foods and supplies.
* Consults with administrative staff and principal to develop policies and procedures for operating school kitchens and cafeterias.
* Conducts research program to improve existing practices and services.
* Keeps records required by other governmental agencies regarding milk subsidies and surplus foods.
* Directs hiring and training of employees.
* Prepares budgetary reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates and keeps in repair equipment used in radiotelegraph communications. Responsibilities include:
* Watches frequency lights on receiver to ascertain if station is being called.
* Snaps toggle switch that sets receiver to frequency when call is indicated.
* Opens circuit and manipulates key to acknowledge call.
* Listens to telegraph signal, types message on form, and relays it to addressee by telephone or teletype.
* Manipulates key to call ships or stations by code, and to send messages after acknowledgment.
* Monitors emergency frequency for distress calls, and Conelrad (civil defense circuit) as required by regulations.
* Performs routine repairs and maintenance, such as changing tubes, resistors, and transmitters.
* Is required to have Radiotelegraph License issued by Federal Communications Commission.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts chemical analyses of wastewater discharges of industrial users of municipal wastewater treatment plant to determine industrial waste surcharge assessments and to ensure that users meet pollution control requirements. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts chemical analyses of samples, using special instrumentation, such as gas chromatograph with electron capture, flame ionization, and thermal conductivity detectors, ultraviolet-visible recording spectrophotometer with photometry attachments, and infrared spectrophotometer.
* Compares findings with industry declared data and legal requirements and notes variations to be used in determining industrial waste surcharge assessments and to regulate industrial waste discharges.
* Develops new procedures in use of equipment and procedures for analyzing samples.
* Directs subordinate laboratory personnel in routine tests.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs any combination of following and similar clerical duties requiring limited knowledge of systems or procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Writes, types, or enters information into computer, using keyboard, to prepare correspondence, bills, statements, receipts, checks, or other documents, copying information from one record to another.
* Proofreads records or forms.
* Counts, weighs, or measures material.
* Sorts and files records.
* Receives money from customers and deposits money in bank.
* Addresses envelopes or packages by hand or with typewriter or addressograph machine.
* Stuffs envelopes by hand or with envelope stuffing machine.
* Answers telephone, conveys messages, and runs errands.
* Stamps, sorts, and distributes mail.
* Stamps or numbers forms by hand or machine.
* Photocopies documents, using photocopier.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who commands tugboat to tow barges and ships into and out of harbors, estuaries, straits, and sounds, and on rivers, lakes, and bays. Responsibilities include:
* Signals workers on deck to rig towlines to barges or ship to be towed.
* Determines course and towing speed on basis of specialized knowledge of local winds, weather, tides, and current.
* Steers tugboat to push or pull barges to destination and to berth and unberth ships, avoiding reefs, outlying shoals, and other hazards to shipping, utilizing navigation devices, such as radar, sonic depth finder, compass and sextant and aids to navigation, such as lighthouses and buoys.
* Directs placement of suction hose or siphon to pump water from hold of barge, and signals workers to repair leak.
* Is required to hold license issued by U.S.
* Coast Guard.
Industry:Professional careers
