- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who directs activities of workers engaged in operating and maintaining facilities and equipment in buildings such as apartment houses or office buildings. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects facilities and equipment to determine need and extent of service, equipment required, and type and number of operation and maintenance personnel needed.
* Hires, trains, and supervises building service personnel.
* Assigns workers to duties such as maintenance, repair, or renovation and obtains bids for additional work from outside contractors.
* Directs contracted projects to ensure adherence to specifications.
* Purchases building and maintenance supplies, machinery, equipment, and furniture.
* Plans and administers building department budget.
* Compiles records of labor and material cost for operating building and issues cost reports to owner or managing agents.
* May prepare construction specifications or plans, obtaining advice from engineering consultants, assemble and analyze contract bids, and submit bids and recommendations to superiors for action.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who files correspondence, cards, invoices, receipts, and other records in alphabetical or numerical order, or according to subject matter, or other system (file clerk i ), searches for and investigates information contained in files, inserts additional data on file records, completes reports, keeps files current, and supplies information from file data. Classifies material when classification is not readily discernible (classification clerk ). Disposes of obsolete files in accordance with established retirement schedule or legal requirements. May copy records on photocopying or microfilming machines. May type labels or reports. May make calculations or use calculating machine to keep files current. May be designated according to material filed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who locates position and directs course of airplane on international flights, using navigational aids, such as charts, maps, sextant, and slide rule. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes position of airplane by use of navigation instruments and charts, celestial observation, or dead reckoning.
* Directs deviations from course required by weather conditions, such as wind drifts and forecasted atmospheric changes.
* Utilizes navigation aids, such as radio beams and beacons, when available.
* Keeps log of flight.
* Must be licensed by Federal Aviation Administration.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of subordinate managerial personnel involved in operating retail chain stores in assigned area. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews and selects individuals to fill managerial vacancies.
* Maintains employment records for each manager.
* Terminates employment of store managers whose performance does not meet company standards.
* Directs, through subordinate managerial personnel, compliance of workers with established company policies, procedures, and standards, such as safekeeping of company funds and property, personnel and grievance practices, and adherence to policies governing acceptance and processing of customer credit card charges.
* Inspects premises of assigned area stores to ensure that adequate security exists and that physical facilities comply with safety and environmental codes and ordinances.
* Reviews operational records and reports of store managers to project sales and to determine store profitability.
* Coordinates sales and promotional activities of store managers.
* Analyzes marketing potential of new and existing store locations and recommends additional sites or deletion of existing area stores.
* Negotiates with vendors to enter into contracts for merchandise and determines allocations to each store manager.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of meter readers. Responsibilities include:
* Verifies rates and addresses of new service accounts.
* Reviews reports and notifies authorities of attempted diversions, defective meters, and other irregularities.
* Investigates customer complaints concerning meter readers.
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and directs self-employment rehabilitation programs for handicapped persons throughout state or region. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews handicapped applicants to determine suitable job or business consistent with applicant's experience, training, aptitude, and physical limitations.
* Accepts or recommends acceptance of suitable candidates.
* Develops training methods and trains handicapped persons in operation of business, according to knowledge of retail merchandising principles and techniques.
* Plans desirable locations for enterprises, considering available facilities, traffic volume, fixtures and equipment costs, and character of business.
* Negotiates lease or donation of space with property owners and other interested parties.
* Establishes statistical and accounting procedures to evaluate productivity of business and success of proprietor.
* Coordinates activities with religious, charitable, and other agencies carrying out related programs to benefit handicapped persons.
* Prepares public information materials explaining program for radio, television, and printed media and presents lectures to interested groups to increase public awareness of handicapped citizens' problems.
* Confers with state purchasing officials to obtain fixtures and initial stock for retail operations at most favorable prices available.
* Supervises activities of vending-stand supervisors within territory assigned.
* May confer with contractors and inspect construction of retail stands for conformity with contract provisions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles settlement data and submits checks, drafts, and other items to clearinghouse association for exchange and settlement with other banks. Responsibilities include:
* Sorts items into bundles, lists items, and totals amounts, using adding machine or calculator.
* Posts totals to clearinghouse settlement sheet.
* Mails or delivers items to clearinghouse.
* Accepts items from clearinghouse that have been drawn on own bank and posts totals on settlement sheet.
* Totals debit and credit columns and computes net balance.
* Submits sheet to clearinghouse for verification.
* May maintain telephone contact with bank personnel and others to locate missing checks, correct errors, and reconcile differences in records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages laundry plant in linen supply establishment or commercial or industrial laundry. Responsibilities include:
* Schedules flow of work through sorting, washing, and ironing departments, taking into consideration amount of clothes to be laundered and capacity of equipment.
* Hires, discharges, and transfers employees according to work performance and production needs.
* Purchases supplies, such as soap, starch, and bleach.
* Prepares and analyzes reports on labor cost and production operations to determine whether operating cost standards are being met.
* Tests strength of bleach, using chemical test kit.
* Performs other administrative and supervisory duties to ensure efficient and profitable operation.
* Supervises workers directly or through subordinates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who radiographs metal, plastics, concrete, or other materials, such as castings, sample parts, pipes, and structural members for flaws, cracks, or presence of foreign materials, utilizing knowledge of radiography equipment, techniques, and procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Aligns object on stand between source of x rays and film or plate; or aligns source of gamma rays, such as cobalt or iridium isotope and film or plate on opposite sides of object, manually or using hand or electric truck, chain hoist, or crane.
* Masks peripheral areas with lead shields.
* Selects type of radiation source and type of film, and applies standard mathematical formulas to determine exposure distance and time, considering size, mobility, and strength of radiation sources in relation to density and mobility of object.
* Verifies radiation intensities, using radiation meters.
* Adjusts controls of x-ray equipment on console or exposes source of radioactivity to take radiograph.
* Removes and develops film or plate.
* Monitors working area, using survey meters, to protect personnel area.
* May replace radioactive isotope source in containers by manipulating tongs from behind protective lead shield.
* Marks defects appearing on film and assists in analyzing findings.
* May specialize in x-ray work and be designated X-Ray Technician.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in operating machines to encode, add, cancel, photocopy, and sort checks, drafts, and money orders for collection, and to prove records of transactions. Responsibilities include:
* Locates check copies and proof records to answer inquiries from staff or customers.
* Prepares journal voucher to correct account when error is found.
* Requests equipment maintenance and repair from vendors.
* Participates in work of subordinates.
* May compile check processing cost information for management use in determining service fees.
* May supervise retention and retrieval of microfilmed checks (supervisor, files ).
* Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
