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A professional who directs and coordinates activities of persons involved in searching, examining, and recording documents to determine status of property titles and participates in real estate closing procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews, screens, hires, trains, promotes, and terminates title department personnel to ensure adequate and efficient operation.
* Evaluates performance of employees for compliance with establishment policies and procedures, prepares performance appraisals, and makes recommendations concerning promotions, separations, or shifting of staff to enhance and provide more efficient environment.
* Conducts in-service training operations to advise employees of changes or additions to company policies and to introduce new methods implemented to ensure more efficient operation.
* Confers with employees and assists in solving problems affecting job performance and establishment policies and procedures.
* Directs preparation of work assignments and work schedules to establish priorities and to ensure completion of assignments in timely manner.
* Confers with other managers and supervisors to establish new policies and procedures.
* Oversees preparation of timesheets and reviews data sent to payroll department.
* Confers with supervisors and other office personnel on status of abstract orders and discusses inconsistencies and discrepancies affecting production or quality of final documents.
* Receives and reviews data collected by abstractors and title reports prepared for clarity, completeness, accuracy, and conformance to established procedures.
* Confers with legal counsel to discuss defects in title, such as outstanding liens or judgments, or to explain delays in title search.
* May coordinate closing activities and review closing documents to determine accuracy of information and need for additional documents.
* May perform difficult and involved title searches.
* May attend closing meeting to oversee signing of documents and disbursement of documents and monies held in escrow.
* May give and receive information related to title searching to other persons involved in real estate transaction.
* May prepare or direct preparation of periodic reports and complete purchase orders for equipment and supplies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends tanks that recover caustic soda from solutions used in viscose rayon production. Respnsibilities include:
* Turns valves to admit impure soda solution to outside section of tank and water to inside section, effecting absorption of soda into water by osmosis through cloth membrane separating sections.
* Turns valves to regulate discharge of resulting pure soda and intake of impure soda, according to level of solution in tank sections.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers program to promote visual and performing arts and humanities. Responsibilities include:
* Plans, organizes, and executes creative arts program under authority of governing board.
* Negotiates contracts and agreements with federal and state agencies and other cultural organizations for funding and implementation of programs.
* Establishes statewide councils and provides guidance in obtaining grants, initiating local projects, and disseminating cultural information.
* Exchanges ideas through seminars, conferences, and other forums and media to accomplish program objectives.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends heated kettle and filter press in which lye is treated with chemicals to remove undesirable properties in glycerine purification process. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts pump to transfer premeasured lye into kettle, starts agitator to mix batch, and turns steam valve to heat kettle to prescribed temperature.
* Dumps specified amounts of dry chemicals or pumps liquid chemicals into kettle to attain product of specified concentration.
* Inspects batch sample for clarity and submits sample laboratory for testing.
* Regulates chemical concentration of batch, following laboratory report.
* Pumps batch through filter press to remove materials precipitated during treatment.
* Cleans filter press and replaces filter cloths, using handtools.
* Records kettle temperature, agitation and treating time, and amount of chemicals used in process.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates apprenticeship training programs in accord with state and federal policies and standards. Responsibilities include:
* Interprets and clarifies state and federal policies governing apprenticeship training programs, and provides information and assistance to trainees and labor and management representatives.
* Visits establishments to ensure that existing programs conform with training standards, investigates discrepancies, and submits progress reports.
* Suggests operational methods to improve existing programs, to adapt programs to production needs, to develop new training programs, and to recruit and select trainees.
* Negotiates with labor and management representatives to resolve training problems and to promote establishment of effective new programs.
* Reviews and evaluates requests for training programs and investigates establishments to ascertain if facilities, supervision, and training methods meet government standards.
* Evaluates training programs to determine eligibility for application of veterans benefits.
* May assist in resolving labor relations issues relating to training programs, such as wages, hours, supervision, and bargaining agreements.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who feeds supply of compounds and dope in tanks at dip conveyors for forming and treating heads of kitchen, penny, and book matches. Respnsibilities include:
* Dips compounds from kettle into respective feed containers that automatically maintain tank level.
* Mixes specified solution of glyoxal and water, that hardens formed matchhead, and pours solution into dope tank.
* Removes and replaces dirty screens in dip tanks.
* Verifies level and temperature of paraffin in dip tanks.
* Pushes kettle trucks to and from compound room and dip area.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who keeps record of accruing dividends on insurance policies and calculates and records interest due on them, using adding machine, calculator, statistical manuals, and rate tables.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who interviews new outpatients at hospital or clinic and records data on medical charts. Responsibilities include:
* Obtains specified information from patient, such as age, insurance coverage, and symptoms, and types information onto prescribed forms.
* Places records and blank history sheets in order and files them in folder.
* Schedules appointments for examinations in hospital clinics, according to nature of illness.
* Gives general information about outpatient care and answers telephone.
* May tally number of outpatients entering each day or week.
* May give first aid.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends filter that removes excess water from activated carbon slurry, preparatory to drying, for variety of industrial and consumer applications. Respnsibilities include:
* Moves lever to transfer carbon slurry from discharge chute onto revolving filter cloth.
* Raises and lowers spreader gate to spread carbon uniformly over surface of filter cloth.
* Dumps bags of processed carbon onto conveyor leading to shipping or storage area.
* Monitors vacuum gauge on filter and observes color of wash water to detect leaks in cloth.
* Scrapes carbon from surface of cloth, using wood paddle, to examine for leaks and other damage or wear.
* Flushes filter cloth with water hose preparatory to changing cloths.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in tracing sources of error and correcting billing records for gas, electric-power, and water supply customers, and in processing records for advance or final billings. Responsibilities include:
* Interprets work procedures for subordinates.
* Confers with subordinates to resolve procedural problems in tracing sources of error.
* Reviews and corrects customer accounts to determine amounts over or under paid as result of irregular connection (meter tampering) investigations.
* Prepares corrected bills to reconcile errors in meter readings, using calculator.
* Traces source and corrects customer accounts for errors in billing rates, misapplied credits, or identifying information, such as name and address received from customer.
* Confers with employees of other departments to trace payments on bills under investigation by collection department and to give information pertaining to accuracy of charges on customer's bills.
* Performs other duties described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
