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A professional who weighs incoming cotton, computes ginning charges, and records production in cotton ginning establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs truck or trailer loaded with cotton and records gross, tare, and net weights.
* Computes and records quantity of cotton ginned and baled, and records weight of cottonseed removed from cotton.
* Questions cotton owners to obtain baling and ginning instructions and records instructions on bale tags.
* Computes and records ginning charges, using rate chart and adding machine.
* May prepare payrolls and records of payments to growers and quantity of seed cotton received.
* May prepare cotton-classing samples and mail samples and ginning figures of individual growers to U.S.
* Department of Agriculture.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes yardage and determines number of accessories, such as belts, linings, and labels, required in manufacture of women's garments. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads cutting ticket to determine number of belts, buttons, labels, and amount of lining required for each style garment.
* Computes number of yards of material used for each style garment to ascertain number of yards per dozen.
* Types copies of cutting tickets and orders for various dressmaker's supplies.
* Keeps records of patterns.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who calculates number of board feet of lumber necessary to manufacture boxes and crates of specified size and number. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews customer order to determine quantity, size, weight, and shape of product to be packed.
* Computes number of board feet of lumber needed, using standardized measurement tables, calculator, and adding machine.
* Submits estimate to be used as basis for determining selling price of boxes or crates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects weight tickets for leaf tobacco fed onto blending conveyor line during designated intervals.
* Computes and records total weight blended and percentage of each tobacco grade in blend, using adding machine and grade formulas, to provide production data for use by blending department supervisor.
* Occasionally performs miscellaneous nonclerical duties, such as feeding tobacco leaves onto conveyors, hand-straightening tobacco leaves, and sweeping floors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes amount of fabric required to produce specified styles of garments in various sizes. Respnsibilities include:
* Measures parts of sample garments or paper patterns to determine amount of fabric required to produce particular style of garment.
* Calculates amount of fabric required to produce specified style of garment in various sizes, using size charts.
* Positions parts of sample or paper patterns on length of fabric to estimate amount of fabric to be used from bolts for minimization of waste during marking operations.
* May calculate cost of fabric for specified size and style of garment, based on yardage required and estimated wastage.
* May cut paper patterns, using shears.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures width of each board of lumber supplied to plant in stacks (lots) of standard lengths and thicknesses to determine board footage, using lumber scale. Tallies footage of each board and computes total footage of stack, using calculator.
* Records thickness, species, grade, length, and board footage of lumber in each stack.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who measures width of each board of lumber supplied to plant in stacks (lots) of standard lengths and thicknesses to determine board footage, using lumber scale. Tallies footage of each board and computes total footage of stack, using calculator.
* Records thickness, species, grade, length, and board footage of lumber in each stack.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who changes charts and records data from industrial recording instruments, such as pyrometers and flowmeters. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes and replaces charts, adjusts recording pen and refills pen with ink, and winds clock springs on mechanical models.
* Records chart readings and time and date of chart removal.
* Repairs and adjusts instruments, using handtools.
* May compare recordings, compute and record average readings, and report discrepancies for use in interpretation of chart data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who changes charts and records data from industrial recording instruments, such as pyrometers and flowmeters. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes and replaces charts, adjusts recording pen and refills pen with ink, and winds clock springs on mechanical models.
* Records chart readings and time and date of chart removal.
* Repairs and adjusts instruments, using handtools.
* May compare recordings, compute and record average readings, and report discrepancies for use in interpretation of chart data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reads tickets attached to bundles of cut or wrapped towels to determine worker identity and weight and style of towels.
* Counts bundles of wrapped towels or estimates quantity of cut towels in bundle, using conversion chart based on weight and style, and records on production sheet quantity of bundles wrapped or towels cut by each worker for use in payroll computation.
* May load bundles on handtruck and move to next production area.
Industry:Professional careers
