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- Company Profile:
A professional who directs and coordinates customer service activities of establishment to install, service, maintain, and repair durable goods, such as machines, equipment, major appliances, or other items sold, leased, or rented with service contract or warranty. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews customer requests for service to ascertain cause for service request, type of malfunction, and customer address.
* Determines staff hours, number of personnel, and parts and equipment required for service call, utilizing knowledge of product, typical malfunctions, and service procedures and practices.
* Prepares schedules for service personnel, assigns personnel to routes or to specific repair and maintenance work according to workers' knowledge, experience, and repair capabilities on specific types of products.
* Arranges for transportation of machines and equipment to customer's location for installation or from customer's location to shop for repairs that cannot be performed on premises.
* Keeps records of work hours and parts utilized and work performed for each service call.
* Requisitions replacement parts and supplies.
* May contact service personnel over radio-telephone to obtain or give information and directions regarding service or installation activities.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts examinations and flight tests to determine individual's ability to qualify for aircraft pilot's license. Administers both oral and written examinations to determine applicant's knowledge of flight rules and regulations, communications, and airport landing procedures. Accompanies pilot on check flight to assess flying skill, stability under emergency conditions, and ability to maintain control of aircraft under flying emergencies. Issues pilot's license to individuals meeting standards. Investigates aircraft accidents and complaints to determine cause and responsibility. Prepares accident and flight activity reports. Recommends changes in federal flight rules and regulations based on knowledge of operating conditions, aircraft improvements, and other factors. Observes flight activities of crop dusters, flying schools charter services, private pilots, and other licensed aircraft owners within assigned geographical area to ensure conformance to flight and safety regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages golf club to provide entertainment for patrons. Responsibilities include:
* Directs activities of dining room and kitchen workers and crews that maintain club buildings, equipment, and golf course in good condition.
* Hires and discharges workers.
* Estimates quantities and costs of foodstuffs, beverages, and groundskeeping equipment to prepare operating budget.
* Explains necessity of items on budget to board of directors and requests approval.
* Inspects club buildings, equipment, and golf course.
* Requisitions materials, such as foodstuffs, beverages, seeds, fertilizers, and groundskeeping equipment.
* Keeps accounts of receipts and expenditures.
* May assist in planning tournaments.
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
A professional who operates batch or continuous still to separate intermediate products or impurities from coal tar compounds. Respnsibilities include:
* Charges still and starts flow of coal tar compound through still units.
* Turns control valves and observes recording instruments and gauges to attain temperatures, material flow rate, pressure, or vacuum specified for distillation of designated product.
* May compute variances between laboratory analysis and product specifications, using prescribed formula to determine temperature and flow-rate adjustments.
* May observe gauges or use measuring rod to verify quantities of chemical materials in feed and hold tanks of still unit.
* May direct activities of helpers.
* May be designated according to product distilled as Naphthalene-Still Operator; Tar-Heater Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists color-paste mixer in mixing color for use in printing textiles. Respnsibilities include:
* Strains mixed colors through vacuum or other straining device to remove lumps and foreign matter.
* Carries colors to and from mixing area.
* Cleans working area and mixing equipment, using water hose.
* May mix colors.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of typists engaged in transcribing correspondence from longhand copy, typing reports, and making duplicate copies of correspondence. Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment that absorbs gases and liquids into water or other solvents to produce chemicals, such as hydrochloric acid or ammonium hydroxide. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pumps, turns valves, and observes flowmeters to control concentration, flow, temperature, and quantity of coolant, gas, liquid, and absorbing liquor through cooling and absorption towers.
* Turns valves to regulate feed of solution produced and rate of steam to purge boilers and condensers to separate impurities from solution and obtain product of designated strength and specific gravity.
* Draws sample and tests specific quality and acidity, using hydrometer and pH meter, or submits sample to laboratory for analysis.
* Pumps solution between equipment and storage tanks or tank cars.
* Maintains log of instrument readings, test results, and shift production.
* May be designated according to solution produced as Ammonium-Hydroxide Operator; Aqua-Ammonia Operator; Hydrochloric-Acid Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines tool drawings prepared by tool designer for inaccuracies of detail and evaluates overall tool design for fit, form, and function, utilizing knowledge of engineering principles, tool design methods, and manufacturing processes. Responsibilities include:
* Measures drawing dimensions, and compares figures with dimensions on original layout, specifications, or sample part to verify measurements conform to scale.
* Marks verified or out-of-scale dimensions on drawings.
* Inspects lines and figures on drawings for clarity.
* Evaluates overall tool design for functionality, conformance to drawing standards and design specifications, and manufacturing feasibility.
* Reviews material requirements for standardization and conformance to industry specification manuals.
* Discusses design, manufacturing, and related issues with engineering, production, or other personnel.
* Approves or rejects design.
* May operate computer to examine and evaluate computer-generated tool designs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who leads group work activities, as directed by agency program staff. Responsibilities include:
* Receives instructions from program director, group work or group worker prior to initiating therapeutic group activities.
* Plans program details to meet needs and interests of individual members.
* Interests participants in various activities, such as arts and crafts and dramatics.
* Demonstrates techniques for active sports, group dances, and games.
* Helps develop new skills and interests.
* May work with part-time or volunteer staff.
* Works for social service agencies, such as community center, neighborhood house, settlement house, hospital, geriatric residential center, and health care facility.
Industry:Professional careers
