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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of social-service-agency staff and volunteers, and students of school of social work. Responsibilities include: * Assigns caseloads and related duties, and coordinates activities of staff in providing counseling services to assist clients with problems of emergency or crisis nature. * Assists agency staff members through individual and group conferences in analyzing case problems and in improving their diagnostic and helping skills. * Reviews case records and evaluates performance of staff members and recommends indicated action. * Participates in developing and implementing agency administrative policy. * Counsels clients individually or in groups on planned or experimental basis and in emergencies. * Trains new employees in areas such as agency policy, department procedures, and agency or government regulations. * Provides in-service training for experienced workers in areas such as new policies, procedures, and regulations. * Represents agency in community or in interagency activities. * May conduct or direct staff development programs. * May train workers is use of computer. * Employed in areas such as child welfare, community welfare councils, family casework, youth services, senior citizen services, health services, public welfare, probation and parole, housing relocation, education, and rehabilitation. * Usually required to have master's degree from school of social work.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls laboratory compounding equipment enclosed in protective hot cell to prepare radioisotopes and other radioactive materials for use as tracers for biological, biomedical, physiological, and industrial purposes according to written procedures. Responsibilities include: * Places specified amounts of chemicals into container to be irradiated at nuclear reactor or with other irradiation equipment. * Secures vacuum pump head to outlet valve on special container to replace air with inert gas, and routes container to irradiation facility. * Receives irradiated chemicals delivered in shielded cell. * Moves manipulator to open container and transfer irradiated contents into glass vessel. * Opens pneumatic valves or uses manipulators to add specified types and quantities of chemical reagents into glass vessel to produce radioactive product. * Controls manipulators to pour liquids required to perform standard chemical analyses involving titration and filtration. * Withdraws radioactive sample for transport to chemical laboratory for analysis. * Fills shipping container inside cell with prescribed quantity of radioisotope material for shipment pending sample approval.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who locates news events, and sets up and controls field transmission equipment to record or transmit news events to television station. Responsibilities include: * Drives vehicle to locate news events, such as fire or public rally, or receives information over two-way radio and scanner about location of news events. * Turns power supply and monitors on, and activates air compressor to raise mast. * Selects channel for transmission of audio and video signals. * Converses with station operator, using two-way radio, while controlling lever to align antennae with receiving dish to obtain clearest signal for transmission of news event to station. * Lays electrical cord and audio and video cables between vehicle, microphone, camera, and reporter , or person being interviewed, to allow for receiving of off-air signal and transmission of audio and video signals to station. * Observes scale in video monitor and sets video level to specifications. * Sets audio level to specifications. * Observes monitor and transmission light, and converses with station operator, using two-way radio, to verify transmission of news event to station, and makes adjustments to equipment. * Records news event onto videotape, using recording equipment, during transmission of news event to studio, or receives videotape from camera operator and makes dub, using recording equipment. * Records information, such as location and news events recorded or transmitted to station, onto log. * Is required to hold license issued by Federal Communications Commission.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates risk and insurance programs of establishment to control risks and losses. Responsibilities include: * Analyzes and classifies risks as to frequency and potential severity, and measures financial impact of risk on company. * Selects appropriate technique to minimize loss, such as avoidance (reducing chance of loss to zero), loss prevention and reduction (reducing frequency and severity of loss), retention (including self-insurance and planned noninsurance), grouping of exposure units (to increase predictability of loss), and transfer (placement of property, activity, or risk with other establishment or insurers). * Directs insurance negotiations, selects insurance brokers and carriers, and places insurance. * Appoints claims and self-insurance administrators, and allocates program costs. * Prepares operational and risk reports for management analysis. * Manages insurance programs, such as fidelity, surety, liability, property, group life, medical, pension plans, and workers' compensation. * Prepares operational and risk reports for management analysis. * May direct loss prevention and safety programs. * May select and direct activities of safety, engineering, and loss prevention experts. * May negotiate with unions for employee benefits.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells nuclear machinery and equipment and provides technical services to client, performing duties as described under sales engineer master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in cleaning and grinding grain and in bolting flour to ensure milling, according to specifications. * Feels flour during processing and adjusts grinding rolls and other equipment to mill product to specifications. * Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in pulverizing and packing powdered sugar. * Inspects pulverizing station to verify that grinders are not overheating, load on electrical system is within specified limits, and dust collector system is operative. * Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in milling rice. Respnsibilities include: * Reviews instructions covering grade and amount of rice to be milled, and plans operations accordingly. * Issues instructions for adjusting shelling-stones, rice hullers, rice-cleaning machine, rice grader, rice polishing equipment, reel, scalping machine and other milling machinery. * Observes milling process, examines rice, and issues instructions for adjustment of machinery to maintain quality and quantity of product. * May inspect and repair machinery. * May plan installation of machinery. * Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in grinding sugarcane in series of crusher mills to extract juice. Respnsibilities include: * Signals workers to regulate speed of conveyors and crusher rollers. * Pries cane loose from between rollers to break up jams, using wooden pole. * Adjusts tension of rollers to ensure total extraction of juice. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers in threshing department of tobacco processing plant. Respnsibilities include: * Pushes buttons on control panels to start conveyors and machines. * Observes threshing machine units to detect jams and defective machine operations. * Removes clogged tobacco, using metal rod or hand, or diverts flow of tobacco to another processing line until jams have been corrected. * Feels tobacco to determine moisture content and turns valves to regulate flow of steam and water into ordering machine. * Keeps payroll timecards for subordinates. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers