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U.S. Department of Labor
Industry: Government; Labor
Number of terms: 77176
Number of blossaries: 0
Company Profile:
Une augmentation de la charge de travail qui n'accorde pas une augmentation de salaire proportionnelle.
Industry:Labor
A professional who coordinates work assignments and supervises clerical personnel preparing work schedules. Responsibilities include: * Plans and prepares work force schedules from statistical data, such as budget estimates and telephone or telegraphic service and traffic records. * Compiles previous traffic-flow counts from transmitting and receiving records, or supervises clerks engaged in compiling flow data to aid in predicting operating needs. * Analyzes past flow counts, and personnel data, such as turnover, absenteeism, or overtime. * Prepares or revises personnel schedules for long- or short-range periods, considering vacations and budget allotments. * May direct preparation of comparative reports and charts to identify operating deficiencies. * When working in telegraph offices, assigns personnel to branch offices within geographical area upon receipt of personnel shortage reports. * Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends equipment that recovers and reconditions mercury used in electrolytic cells. Respnsibilities include: * Sweeps, shovels, and dumps mercury-bearing material onto vibrating screen that separates mercury. * Flushes screen with water, using hose, and drains off water into settling tank, forming sludge. * Ladles contaminated mercury and sludge into reclaiming kettle and turns valves to admit acid and steam to separate foreign matter from mercury. * Drains mercury into flask. * May break used cell anodes to salvage porcelain insulators and copper posts, using hammer. * May tend concentrating table to remove mercury residue from scrap material for recovery. * May weigh flasks of recovered mercury for inventory records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles and computes amounts and costs of food bought and sold from records of cashier ii and other summaries. Operates calculating machine to compute profit or loss on each item of food or beverages sold in restaurant and individual departments and records data to keep perpetual inventory.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates electric-screwdown mechanism on rolling mill to set draft (space between rolls) for reducing slabs, ingots, or billets to specified dimensions, using knowledge of rolling practices and steel properties. Respnsibilities include: * Reads rolling order for dimensions, properties, and temperature of product to be rolled. * Determines, from experience, number of passes and amount of reduction on each pass required to reduce product to specifications. * Moves controls to set rolls for each pass, according to draft reading on dial indicator. * Performs other duties, such as assisting in roll changes and repairing or adjusting mill equipment. * May calibrate dial of screwdown setting with x-ray reading.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates and maintains radiotelegraph and radiotelephone equipment and accessories aboard ship. Responsibilities include: * Turns on power to activate generator, and throws switches to cut in transmitters and antennas. * Turns dials to obtain sending frequency and volume. * Receives and transmits messages following procedure prescribed by federal regulations. * Maintains log of messages transmitted and received. * Monitors emergency frequency for ship and distress calls. * Performs minor repairs and adjustments on ships' radio equipment and lifeboat radios. * Charges batteries. * May perform minor repairs to radar, loran, auto-alarm, and gyrocompass systems. * May copy broadcast schedules, such as Merfox, Mercast, and news. * Must be licensed by Federal Communications Commission as Radiotelegraph Operator and Radiotelephone Operator, and by U.S. * Coast Guard as Radio Officer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who computes charges for pickup and delivery of items, such as documents, messages, and packages, using rate manuals and zone maps. Responsibilities include: * Sorts dispatch tickets and reads postal zone maps and street directories to determine zone categories for pickup and delivery of items. * Computes charges for services in various zones, using rate manuals, and quotes rates to customers upon request. * Records charges on report form.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who tends machine that rewinds sheet metal coils into compact rolls for shipment. Respnsibilities include: * Measures sheet width and thickness, using tape and micrometer. * Regulates air valve to raise and lower horizontal and vertical arbor in accordance with width of coil. * Places coil on arbor manually or using hoist. * Inserts inside end of coil in arbor and starts machine. * Observes operation to detect telescoping, or excessive tightness, or coil. * Cuts off damaged portions of coil, using shear. * Removes and stacks rewound coils. * May tend machine that weighs and rewinds sheet metal coils.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates equipment from pulpit of rolling mill to start, stop, and regulate speed of rolls, rollers, conveyors, and edgers to reduce gauge of steel slabs and billets. Respnsibilities include: * Turns master switch and motor-breaker switches to build up voltage of mill motors. * Moves levers and switches to set specified roll speeds at each roll stand and signals furnace crew to release slab or billet onto entry conveyor. * Observes gauges, tachometers, and product being rolled to determine if specified roll speed, motor load, and tension on product is being maintained. * Adjusts controls to regulate rolling speed, to prevent looping, warping, or stretching of product as gauge and temperature of product is reduced and roll draft is changed. * Stops motors or shut down mill for repairs or roll changes. * May assist other workers in making roll changes, and in repairing, replacing, or adjusting roll line equipment, using handtools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates activities of residential camp for seasonal agricultural workers. Responsibilities include: * Directs activities, such as maintenance of buildings and facilities, preparation of meals and type of food served, compliance with state health and fire regulations, and assignment of living quarters. * Arranges medical care for sick or injured workers. * Assists underage employees in obtaining health and birth certificates and work permits. * Administers recreation programs. * Prepares periodic reports of camp operation. * May recruit and employ workers prior to camp opening.
Industry:Professional careers