- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who fills customers' mail and telephone orders and marks price of merchandise on order form. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads order to ascertain catalog number, size, color, and quantity of merchandise.
* Obtains merchandise from bins or shelves.
* Computes price of each group of items.
* Places merchandise on conveyor leading to wrapping area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records data pertaining to receiving, storing, and shipping of grain at grain elevators. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines bin slips or track list to determine type, destination, and estimated weight of railroad car.
* Signals workers to dump or load cars, using bell, light, or telephone.
* Pulls lever to open slide gate on storage hopper to dump grain into scale hopper.
* Weighs grain and inserts ticket into automatic recorder on scale that stamps weight on ticket.
* Notifies government inspector to examine beam scale balance and stamped ticket.
* Records weight, description, and destination of grain shipped and received.
* Keeps charts indicating location and contents of storage tanks.
* Assigns workers to jobs according to work schedules, and reviews timecards.
* Grades and weighs grain samples, using hand graders and scales, and records results.
* Reads thermometers on control panel to ascertain grain temperatures at various levels in storage tank.
* May start conveyors, select flow pipes, set trippers, and select storage tanks to convey grain into storage or to loading department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records data pertaining to receiving, storing, and shipping of grain at grain elevators. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines bin slips or track list to determine type, destination, and estimated weight of railroad car.
* Signals workers to dump or load cars, using bell, light, or telephone.
* Pulls lever to open slide gate on storage hopper to dump grain into scale hopper.
* Weighs grain and inserts ticket into automatic recorder on scale that stamps weight on ticket.
* Notifies government inspector to examine beam scale balance and stamped ticket.
* Records weight, description, and destination of grain shipped and received.
* Keeps charts indicating location and contents of storage tanks.
* Assigns workers to jobs according to work schedules, and reviews timecards.
* Grades and weighs grain samples, using hand graders and scales, and records results.
* Reads thermometers on control panel to ascertain grain temperatures at various levels in storage tank.
* May start conveyors, select flow pipes, set trippers, and select storage tanks to convey grain into storage or to loading department.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who determines location for merchandise on dock preparatory to being stowed on ship or transported to receivers. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects freight to determine amount of dock space freight will occupy.
* Directs movement and disposition of freight on dock.
* Marks destination of outgoing freight in large letters on dock, using chalk.
* Records deliveries in record book.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inserts address tags into slots (holders) of mailsacks used for bulk mailing of subscription magazines and catalogs. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives and deposits, in mailsacks, stacked or tied bundles of magazines addressed to same city or state.
* Selects printed destination tag from labeled compartment of wall rack, and inserts tag into metal holder attached to mail bag.
* Marks tag indicating to postal employees whether magazines in mailsack are all addressed to one city or to various cities within same state.
* Notifies co-worker to tie, lock, and remove filled sacks.
* Handwrites mail slot-tags when printed tags are not supplied for specified destination area, referring to list of postal terminals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dumps, weighs, and records weight of incoming milk received in milk cans by dairy, and tends washing machine that sterilizes empty cans. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses switch to activate conveyor of can washing machine and turns valves to admit steam and water to machine.
* Presses switch to activate conveyor that moves individual producer's milk cans from unloading dock to dumping station.
* Removes cover from each can, smells milk to detect sourness, and tilts can to dump milk into weigh tank.
* Places emptied cans and covers on conveyor of washing machine.
* Reads scale and records total weight of milk in producer's shipment and identification number of producer on record sheet.
* Dips and pours sample of producer's milk from weigh tank into bottle for laboratory analysis.
* Pulls lever to open valve and empty weigh tank.
* Cleans and lubricates washing machine and conveyors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who dumps, weighs, and records weight of incoming milk received in milk cans by dairy, and tends washing machine that sterilizes empty cans. Respnsibilities include:
* Presses switch to activate conveyor of can washing machine and turns valves to admit steam and water to machine.
* Presses switch to activate conveyor that moves individual producer's milk cans from unloading dock to dumping station.
* Removes cover from each can, smells milk to detect sourness, and tilts can to dump milk into weigh tank.
* Places emptied cans and covers on conveyor of washing machine.
* Reads scale and records total weight of milk in producer's shipment and identification number of producer on record sheet.
* Dips and pours sample of producer's milk from weigh tank into bottle for laboratory analysis.
* Pulls lever to open valve and empty weigh tank.
* Cleans and lubricates washing machine and conveyors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares braille and talking books for mailing to blind library patrons and receives books returned by patrons. Respnsibilities include:
* Stamps issue date on book card to maintain record of location of borrowed books.
* Stamps due date on issue card and inserts card and return mailing label in book pocket.
* Places books in mailing container and affixes address label to container, securing container with straps for mailing.
* Receives and examines returned books for damage, such as torn paper and scratched record surfaces.
* Stamps return date on book card.
* Shelves returned books alphabetically by author's name or by title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assembles and routes various types of printed material. Respnsibilities include:
* Assembles specified number of forms, manuals, or circulars for each addressee as indicated by distribution tables or instructions.
* Wraps, ties, or places material in envelopes, boxes, or other containers.
* Stamps, types, or writes addresses on packaged materials.
* Forwards packages by mail, messenger, or through message center.
* Keeps records of materials sent.
* May requisition and store materials to maintain stock.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who verifies quantity and quality of foodstuffs issued to kitchen from storeroom.
* Weighs and measures foodstuffs to verify quantity received.
* Oversees distribution of all foodstuffs.
* Prepares inventory of foodstuffs on hand in kitchen.
Industry:Professional careers
