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A professional who entertains children in nursery of department store, country club, or similar establishment as service to patrons.
* Reads aloud, organizes and participates in games, and gives elementary lessons in arts or crafts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who submits to scientifically conducted research relating to such fields as medicine, psychology, or consumer-product testing. Respnsibilities include:
* Participates in activities such as performing physical tasks, taking psychological tests, or using experimental products, following instructions of researcher.
* Replies verbally or records responses to questionnaire to provide researcher with data for evaluation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who submits to scientifically conducted research relating to such fields as medicine, psychology, or consumer-product testing. Respnsibilities include:
* Participates in activities such as performing physical tasks, taking psychological tests, or using experimental products, following instructions of researcher.
* Replies verbally or records responses to questionnaire to provide researcher with data for evaluation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends retort furnace that cremates human bodies. Respnsibilities include:
* Slides casket containing body into furnace.
* Starts furnace.
* Adjusts valves to attain extreme heat and to maintain temperature for specified time.
* Allows furnace to cool.
* Removes unburned metal casket parts from furnace.
* Scrapes ashes of casket and body from furnace, using handtools.
* Sifts ashes through fine screen and removes extraneous material.
* Places remains in canister and attaches metal identification tag to canister.
* Cleans furnace and sweeps and washes floors.
* May place rings and jewelry in temporary box for return to relatives.
* May clean building and fixtures.
* May care for lawns and shrubs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who acts as one of group to carry casket from mortuary to place of funeral service and interment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in receiving, marking, washing, and ironing clothes or linen in laundry. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines sequence in which flatwork, one-day service, and white and colored work are to be scheduled through laundry to provide quick and efficient service to customers and to regulate work loads.
* Inspects articles to determine methods of specific cleaning requirements.
* Inspects finished laundered articles to ensure conformance to standards.
* Observes operation of machines and equipment to detect possible malfunctions.
* Investigates and resolves customer complaints of unsatisfactory work or bundle shortage.
* Studies literature of launderers' and dry cleaners' associations, and confers with salespersons to obtain information on new or improved work methods and equipment.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be designated according to activity supervised as Flatwork Supervisor; Laundry-Marker Supervisor; Receiving, Marking, And Washing Supervisor; Shirt-Ironer Supervisor; Sorting-And-Folding Supervisor; Washroom Supervisor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who folds, stacks, counts, and wraps ironed flatwork. Respnsibilities include:
* Verifies customer's identification accompanying each group of flatwork.
* Records customer's name on company invoice.
* Completes folding of flatwork, such as sheets, pillowcases, and towels.
* Counts flatwork for each customer and records amount on production record and invoice.
* Verifies customer's count.
* Wraps flatwork, writes customer's name on bundle, and places bundle in storage bin.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends one or more machines that wash commercial, industrial, or household articles, such as garments, blankets, curtains, draperies, fine linens, and rags. Respnsibilities include:
* Loads, or directs workers engaged in loading, machine with articles requiring identical treatment.
* Starts machine and turns valves to admit specified amounts of soap, detergent, water, bluing, and bleach.
* Adds starch to loads of such articles as curtains or linens, when bell signal indicates that washing cycle is completed.
* Removes, or directs workers in removing, articles from washer and into handtrucks or extractors.
* May wash delicate fabrics by hand.
* May mix solutions, such as bleach, bluing, or starch, and apply them to articles before or after washing to remove color or improve appearance.
* May spot-clean articles, before washing, to remove heavy stains.
* May sterilize items.
* May hang curtains, draperies, or blankets on stretch-frames to dry.
* May brush blankets, or feed blankets into carding machine, to raise and fluff nap.
* May pull trousers over heated metal forms to dry and stretch legs.
* May load and remove articles from extractor or drier by hand or hoist, using metal basket or cord mesh bag.
* May tend semiautomatic or computer-controlled washing machines that automatically select water levels, temperature, cleaning additives, and wash cycle according to type of articles to be laundered.
* May tend machines that dry articles.
* When washing contaminated laundry from hospital isolation wards, may be designated Isolation-Washer.
* May be designated according to type of articles washed as Flatwork Washer; Overall Washer; Rag Washer; Washer, Blanket.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machine that washes, rinses, and partially dries rugs and carpets. Respnsibilities include:
* Starts machine, and turns valves to admit cleaning solutions and water.
* Feels rug to determine end to be fed into machine to retain natural lay of pile.
* Fastens edge of rug to pins on conveyor bar and guides rug into machine.
* Sprinkles chemical solutions on stained area to dissolve stains.
* Moves levers or turns handwheels to regulate roller clearance, sprayer, water force, and speed of machine to avoid damage to rugs.
* May soap and scrub rugs requiring special attention, using portable scrubber prior to cleaning in machine.
* May sort rugs according to pile before cleaning.
* May turn valve handle to regulate heat when machine is drier equipped.
* May sew rugs end-to-end, using rail-mounted sewing machine and portable sewing machine to obtain continuous rug lengths for processing through machine.
* May load and push handtruck to transport rugs within plant.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who washes, dries, and irons articles in hand-laundries and laundromats, using equipment, such as hand iron, and small washing and drying machines. Respnsibilities include:
* Sorts articles on worktable or in baskets on floor to separate special washes, such as fugitives and starch work.
* Loads and unloads washing and drying machines, and adds detergent powder and bleach as required.
* Folds fluff-dry articles preparatory to wrapping.
* Presses wearing apparel, using hand iron.
* Assembles, wraps, or bags laundered articles for delivery to customer.
* Some hand laundries are machine-equipped and only touching-up is done by hand iron; in others, some articles, such as flatwork and shirts, are sent to larger machine-equipped plants.
Industry:Professional careers
