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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
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A professional who compiles and posts in general ledgers information or summaries concerning various business transactions that have been recorded in separate ledgers by other clerks, using calculating or adding machine.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls equipment, such as washers, rectifiers, condensers, and mixing tanks arranged in series to recover pyridine sulfate from tar oils. Respnsibilities include: * Prepares solutions of diluted sulfuric acid and sodium carbonate to specified concentration by adding water. * Pumps solutions into system to dissolve pyridine and neutralize acids. * Starts pumps to circulate batch through system, observing gauges and other instruments. * Removes tarry compounds dissolved in pyridine sulfate solution by rectifying (boiling) solution with steam. * Samples products for analysis, and interprets results and makes adjustments to control quantity and quality of product according to laboratory report. * Inspects equipment, and steams out lines, changes charts, lubricates equipment, and makes minor repairs and adjustments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine which coils light gauge metal strips or wire around rotating spindle to form springs used in clocks, watches, and instruments. Respnsibilities include: * Threads end of specified length of wire or strip along fixed peg or between guide blocks or rolls and through slot of spindle. * Starts machine to rotate spindle that winds wire into coil. * Examines coil for conformance with specifications. * May tend machine that automatically threads wire through guides and into slot of spindle. * May feed automatic shear or punch cutter to cut wire or strip to specified length. * May record number of springs wound. * May specialize in coiling hairsprings and be designated Hairspring Winder.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that winds wire onto bobbins, preparatory to formation of wire netting used in reinforcing sheet glass. Respnsibilities include: * Threads wire from supply reel through rollers that automatically feed wire to bobbin. * Moves lever to start machine and observes operation to ensure uniform winding. * Stops machine when wire breaks and splices end to full supply reel, using splicing tool.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs duties as described under apprentice master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who commands ferryboat to transport passengers, motor vehicles, or freight across lakes, bays, sounds, or rivers. Responsibilities include: * Signals crew to close ferry gates and raise loading ramp, and signals engine room to start engines. * Determines course and speed of ferryboat on basis of specialized knowledge of local winds, weather, tides, and current. * Steers ferryboat, or orders worker at helm to steer ferryboat toward slip on opposite side of water. * Inspects ferryboat to ensure that passengers and crew observe regulations pertaining to safe and efficient operation of ferryboat. * Signals engine room to reverse engines, and maneuvers ferryboat into slip. * Maintains ferryboat's log. * Must hold license issued by U.S. * Coast Guard, depending on tonnage of ferryboat and waters crossed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who maintains, repairs, and overhauls farm machinery, equipment, and vehicles, such as tractors, harvesters, pumps, tilling equipment, trucks, and other mechanized, electrically powered, or motor-driven equipment, on farms or in farm-equipment repair shops. Respnsibilities include: * Examines and listens to machines, motors, gasoline and diesel engines, and equipment for operational defects and dismantles defective units, using handtools. * Repairs or replaces defective parts, using handtools and machine tools, such as drill press, lathe, milling machine, woodworking machines, welding equipment, grinders, and saws. * Reassembles, adjusts, and lubricates machines and equipment to ensure efficient operation. * May install and repair wiring and motors to maintain farm electrical system. * May install and repair plumbing systems on farm. * May construct and repair buildings and other farm structures. * May assemble and erect new farm machinery and equipment. * May be designated according to equipment maintained as viner mechanic.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that transfers rolled steel shapes, such as blooms, billets, rails, and pipe from processing lines to cooling beds. Respnsibilities include: * Presses controls to raise roll stop, start conveyor, and position material opposite specified cooling bed. * Pulls levers to start pusher straightedge and dog-chain (series of projections) that shoves material off conveyor line onto cooling bed. * Moves controls of dog-chain to pull cooled material from bed onto cradle or transfer car. * Records number and type of object cooled. * May assist other workers in making roll and hot saw blade changes and in repairing, replacing, or adjusting mill equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cancels insurance policies as requested by agents. Responsibilities include: * Receives computer printout of cancellation data or retrieves expiration card from file. * Checks number on card with number of policy. * Computes refunds, using calculator, adding machine, and rate tables. * Types cancellation correspondence and mails with canceled policy to policyholder. * Types cancellation notice and routes to bookkeeping department for recording. * Mails cancellation notice to agent.
Industry:Professional careers