- Industrie: Government; Labor
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A professional who coordinates production of printed materials and prepress or printing services with customer's requirements. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with customers throughout production to keep them informed of status of job, to solicit and resolve inquiries and complaints, to obtain approval of materials, such as artwork, color separations (film for each primary color), ink samples, and proofs, and to procure information and materials needed by establishment personnel to process order.
* Determines supplies, materials, and equipment needed for job order, plans and draws layout of job, and routes supplies and materials, such as pasteups, artwork, copy, film, or prints, to work areas to put job order into production.
* Monitors progress of job order throughout production, confers with establishment personnel, orders supplies, contracts services with outside vendors, and alters production schedule and job order to expedite timely processing of job in accordance with customer's requirements and company standards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who keeps records of usage and time intervals between inspection and maintenance of designated airplane parts. Respnsibilities include:
* Compiles data from flight schedules and computes and posts amount of time airplanes and individual parts are in use daily, using calculating machine.
* Maintains card file for individual parts with notations of time used and facts taken from inspection records.
* Notifies inspection department when parts and airplanes approach date for inspection, including accumulated time and routing schedule.
* Records work notations onto inspection report forms, using typewriter.
* Prepares reports on schedule delays caused by mechanical difficulties to be filed with Federal Aviation Administration.
* May keep reports on amounts of gasoline used daily.
* May keep employees' time records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and transmits dispatching information and instructions between central office, pipeline terminals, tank farms, and pumping and compressor stations. Respnsibilities include:
* Relays messages to stations to direct flow of oil and gas, using PBX switchboard.
* Transmits, receives, and posts information pertaining to pumping schedules, oil and gas pressures, gauging reports, oil stocks and storage capacities, and physical characteristics of gas and oil in storage and lines, such as temperatures, specific gravities, Btu, and sediment content.
* Receives, records, and prepares reports of quantities of oil and gas pumped or compressed and received by stations and tank farms.
* Performs other clerical duties, such as typing reports and records and keeping files.
* May communicate with field personnel, using radio-telephone equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who estimates cost of manufacturing paperboard boxes, according to specifications, blueprints, and diagrams, using tables, charts, and arithmetic calculations. Respnsibilities include:
* Confers with plant production personnel to select machines for possible use in manufacturing boxes.
* Reads tables to estimate cost of each production operation.
* Determines positions of pattern on blank (paperboard sheet) to minimize waste and facilitate operations on machines.
* Calculates total material to be used and total material cost, using calculator and considering quantity, quality, and style of box, packaging, and delivery rates.
* Submits total estimate to sales department.
* May estimate cost of manufacturing boxes made from other types of materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records and reports progress of construction work. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews information, such as daily record of activities (log), records of materials received and used, and reports from various workers.
* Prepares and types report.
* May inspect and measure work completed.
* May photograph construction work at various stages of completion to report progress pictorially.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and records information pertaining to track and right-of-way repair and maintenance by railroad section crews, such as materials used, types and locations of repairs made, and hours expended.
* Types or writes requisitions for materials needed.
* May keep daily time records and compile maintenance reports for specific section crew and be designated Road Clerk.
* May compile daily, weekly, and monthly composite reports and be designated Section-Crews-Activities Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who schedules work for computer processing and monitors execution of schedule, using software and computer terminal. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews computer processing job requests received from programmers and computer users, and talks with programmers and users to determine processing requirements, such as computer time and memory required, and priority.
* Develops processing schedule, using computer terminal and job scheduling software.
* Reviews completed schedule to detect conflicts and ensure availability of memory and other computer resources, using computer terminal.
* Talks with programmers and users to resolve conflicts in schedule.
* Enters commands to ensure that new processing jobs do not hinder computer operation, following programmers' specifications.
* Monitors computer terminal display to detect problem, and to ensure that data entered are correct and that jobs will run as scheduled.
* Corrects problem, such as failure of program to run, or program running incorrect sequence.
* May establish guidelines for scheduling work.
* May train other workers in use of scheduling software.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who schedules distribution of garments received for alterations within alteration workroom of retail store. Respnsibilities include:
* Receives garment from sales floor, checks accuracy of entries on sales slip against garment tag, and removes section of tag for record purposes.
* Segregates garments on racks and distributes work according to nature of alteration and completion date specified on tag.
* Receives tags from alteration workers upon completion of alterations and matches with tags in file.
* Transcribes figures from tag to production record of each worker and computes daily and weekly figures, using adding machine.
* Answers telephone calls from customers regarding status of garments being altered and complaints about unsatisfactory alterations on completed garments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who estimates labor and material costs of printing and binding books, pamphlets, periodicals, and other printed matter, based on specifications outlined on sales order or submitted by prospective customer. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines specifications, sketches, and sample layouts, and calculates unit and production costs, using labor and material pricing schedules, and considering factors such as size and number of sheets or pages, paper stock requirements, binding operations, halftones, number and units of colors, and quality of finished product, to determine cost effective and competitive price.
* Confers with department heads or production personnel to develop or confirm information regarding various cost elements.
* May estimate cost of mailing finished printed matter if specified on order.
* May estimate labor and material cost of specific phase of printing, such as plate making or binding, and be designated according to specialty as Estimator, Printing-Plate-Making or Estimator, Binding.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who locates, gathers, and groups, according to specifications, parts required to complete switchgear units at place of installation. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares list of parts and materials, such as circuit breakers, transformers, bus-bars, wiring materials, insulation, hardware, paints, and ventilating pipes.
* Locates parts in plant by consulting production records, supervisors, and production personnel.
* Gathers parts dismantled from switchgear units.
* Fills orders for accessory parts from stockroom and withdraws repaired items from repair department.
* Groups parts according to pattern in which switchgear units are split up for shipment.
* Tags items with identifying information and routes to inspection and shipping department.
* Posts information on status of accessory, split, and repair orders in production book.
Industry:Professional careers
