- Industrie: Government; Labor
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A professional who verifies completion of industrial orders and conformance of product to specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Compares blueprints with contract or order to ascertain that product meets engineering specifications.
* Communicates with customer and delivery personnel to verify delivery of product.
* Fills out completion slip after order is filled.
* May route products not meeting specifications to production units for correction.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who relays scheduling information to workers on automotive assembly line. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production schedule and computer printouts and relays information orally or by written instructions.
* Verifies conformity of assemblies and parts on conveyor lines with scheduling information.
* Notifies workers to switch parts and assemblies not in sequence.
* Enters production data in computer, using keyboard or laser reader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who keeps and reviews records and reports pertaining to locomotive lubricating systems and advises railroad repair shops when locomotives require oil change or repair to lubricating systems. Respnsibilities include:
* Scans incoming reports to identify locomotives with oil contamination.
* Dials computer dial phone to obtain location of oil-contaminated locomotives.
* Telephones and directs clerks at reported locations to notify maintenance personnel to determine contamination causes and make necessary repairs.
* Requests that locomotives be pushed to nearest repair shops when bad-oil reports indicate need for major repairs.
* Reviews reports to identify locomotives requiring repeated repairs and advises need for major repairs to prevent possible crankshaft damage.
* Verifies and records informational data on all repairs.
* Plots weekly and 10-week-average graphs and prepares reports on locomotives' lubrication oil and lubrication systems.
* May test locomotive water for chromate contents, using spectrophotometer, and notify repair shops of need for rust or clogging-preventative additives.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records number and cause of machine stoppage on textile machines, such as looms and spinning frames, for payroll, work assignment, and quality control purposes. Respnsibilities include:
* Observes machine and questions worker to determine reason for machine stoppage.
* Records information on forms for analysis by management.
* May perform quality control tests on samples, such as measuring variations in thickness and testing tensile strength, using testing equipment.
* May record and total items, such as material and labor costs to determine plant processing costs.
* May be known as Loom-Stop Checker when working in weave room.
* May be known as Ends-Down Checker when observing spinning or roving frames.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares schedules for preventive maintenance of equipment to ensure uninterrupted operation of equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews maintenance schedule to determine preventive maintenance to be performed on equipment.
* Compares maintenance and staff hour data against monthly maintenance plans, work load estimates, and standards.
* Calculates amount of human resources required to perform maintenance work.
* Notifies superiors of maintenance to be performed.
* Identifies and assists superiors in analysis of material deficiencies, high staff hour action areas, and trends and deviations from schedules and standards.
* Prepares inspection tests, repair, modification, alignment service, and load schedules for aircraft, missiles, and machinery.
* Maintains maintenance index file for individual equipment maintenance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and maintains material and parts inventory and status information to expedite movement of material and parts between production areas, according to predetermined production schedules and order priorities. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads production schedules, inventory reports, and work orders to determine type and quantity of materials required, availability of stock, and order priority.
* Confers with department supervisors to determine overdue material and parts and to inform supervisors of material status.
* Locates and distributes materials to specified production areas, manually or using handcart, handtruck, or forklift.
* Records and maintains perpetual inventory of quantity and type of materials and parts received, stocked, and distributed, manually or using computer.
* Compiles and maintains records, such as material inventory records, production records, and timecards, manually or using computer.
* May direct industrial-truck operator or material handler to expedite transfer of materials from stock area to production areas.
* May examine material received, verify part numbers, and check discrepancies, such as damaged or unmarked parts.
* May compare work ticket specifications to material used at work stations to verify appropriate assignment.
* May drive truck to outlying work areas to check status of orders or to deliver materials.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and feeds input data into computer that controls reduction processing of steel slabs on roughing section of hot-strip rolling mill and records mill production and operating data. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews rolling schedule to ascertain operational data, such as slab sizes, metallurgical analysis, and rolling sequences.
* Contacts heating personnel by intercom system to ascertain stock of scheduled slabs and notifies crew of deviations from rolling schedule.
* Notifies supervisor when data is in computer.
* Monitors computer readout and adjusts input data according to read failures, data errors, or when notified by heating personnel of out-of-sequence changes, no changes, or runback of slabs due to insufficient rolling temperature.
* Prepares production and delay reports from data in logs and information received from mill crew.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records on identification tickets yardage, weight, and identity of cloth processed on finishing range: Sets yardage meter to zero position prior to each cloth-lot processing run.
* Records yardage reading from meter and copies weight and style and lot numbers from job order onto roll (identification) ticket.
* Clips roll ticket onto roll of finished cloth.
* Stops range in event of obvious visible cloth defects and notifies supervisor.
* Adjusts and repairs yardage meter, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles, classifies, and keeps reports and records of tests performed by relay field-test crews and transmits supervisor's instructions to relay test crews of electric power company. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares reports and verifies accuracy of data submitted by field-test crews in company plant and substation installations.
* Prepares reports on maintenance and new-installation tests performed at customer's substation.
* Classifies, files, and issues blueprints and related documents used on construction work by field-test crews.
* Verifies accuracy of calculations on test reports, such as power or current transformer ratio, circuit breaker time-performance, and transformer winding resistance, using calculator.
* Summarizes daily field-test reports and posts data in logbooks.
* Relays supervisor's instructions to test crews, using communication system.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who reviews request orders for duplication of printed, typed, and handwritten materials and determines appropriate reproduction method, based on knowledge of cost factors and duplicating machines and processes. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads duplication requests to ascertain number of copies to be made and completion date requested.
* Confers with order requestor when additional information is necessary to facilitate completion of order.
* Designates method of duplication, such as photocopying or offset, and routes request orders for processing.
* Examines completed reproduced material for adherence to order specifications.
* Keeps files on status of request orders.
* Keeps supply of standard forms and issues forms as requested.
Industry:Professional careers
