- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who receives cash from customers or employees in payment for goods or services and records amounts received. Responsibilities include:
* Recomputes or computes bill, itemized lists, and tickets showing amount due, using adding machine or cash register.
* Makes change, cashes checks, and issues receipts or tickets to customers.
* Records amounts received and prepares reports of transactions.
* Reads and records totals shown on cash register tape and verifies against cash on hand.
* May be required to know value and features of items for which money is received.
* May give cash refunds or issue credit memorandums to customers for returned merchandise.
* May operate ticket-dispensing machine.
* May operate cash register with peripheral electronic data processing equipment by passing individual price coded items across electronic scanner to record price, compile printed list, and display cost of customer purchase, tax, and rebates on monitor screen.
* May sell candy, cigarettes, gum, and gift certificates, and issue trading stamps.
* May be designated according to nature of establishment as Cafeteria Cashier; Cashier, Parking Lot; Dining-Room Cashier; Service-Bar Cashier; Store Cashier; or according to type of account as Cashier, Credit; Cashier, Payments Received.
* May press numeric keys of computer corresponding to gasoline pump to reset meter on pump and to record amount of sale and be designated Cashier, Self-Service Gasoline.
* May receive money, make change, and cash checks for sales personnel on same floor and be designated Floor Cashier.
* May make change for patrons at places of amusement other than gambling establishments and be designated Change-Booth Cashier.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who repairs internal combustion engines in factory service departments or repair establishments, according to company specification charts, using machine tools, handtools, and measuring instruments. Respnsibilities include:
* Positions and bolts engine to test stand.
* Tests engine to determine malfunctions, using instruments, such as vacuum gauge, compression gauge, and exhaust gas analyzer.
* Disassembles engine and cleans parts, such as cylinder heads, pistons, ring grooves, piston domes, and cylinder sleeves, using cleaning solvent, sand blasting equipment, grinders, and wire brushes.
* Rebores and hones cylinders, and turns and undercuts armatures according to chart tolerances, using lathes, grinders, boring and honing machines.
* Repairs, replaces, or adjusts parts, such as valves, valve guides, and tappets, using valve grinding machine, screwdrivers, wrenches, and feeler gauges.
* Assembles and starts engine and adjusts carburetor and distributor to ensure smooth performance.
* May test and repair turbo-superchargers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who rebuilds, tests, and calibrates fuel injection units as used on diesel engines, railroad locomotives, trucks, construction equipment, tractors, and power plants. Respnsibilities include:
* Studies repair order and disassembles unit to determine cause of malfunction.
* Refinishes defective parts, using lapping machine to grind and smooth nozzle point and seat.
* Replaces parts which cannot be refinished.
* Assembles and calibrates injection pumps, using test equipment.
* Assembles and tests nozzle assemblies, using test equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who compiles reports and calculates tariff assessments for services rendered vessels using harbor facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Reads register of merchant vessels to verify tonnage, registry, and ship's owner.
* Calculates charges and types tariff form for service furnished, such as gallons of water and kilowatts of electricity used during vessel's stay in harbor.
* Keeps records of ships entering port and tonnage of cargo unloaded or loaded.
* Submits reports to accounting and traffic departments for billing purposes.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates student and community volunteer services program in organizations engaged in public, social, and welfare activities. Responsibilities include:
* Consults administrators and staff to determine organization needs for various volunteer services and plans for volunteer recruitment.
* Interviews, screens, and refers applicants to appropriate units.
* Orients and trains volunteers prior to assignment in specific units.
* Arranges for on-the-job and other required training and supervision and evaluation of volunteers.
* Resolves personnel problems.
* Serves as liaison between administration, staff, and volunteers.
* Prepares and maintains procedural and training manuals.
* Speaks to community groups, explaining organization activities and role of volunteer program.
* Publishes agency newsletter, and prepares news items for other news media.
* Maintains personnel records.
* Prepares statistical reports on extent, nature, and value of volunteer service.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates machines to make barrel hoops from strap steel. Respnsibilities include:
* Installs and adjusts rollers, punches, and shear plates in hoop-punch-and-coiler machines, using wrenches.
* Places roll of strap steel on spindle, inserts end in feed rollers and starts machine.
* Removes punched and coiled hoops.
* Aligns holes in ends of coiled hoops on shank of rivets in guide slots of riveting machine.
* Slides hoop with protruding rivets under reciprocating hammer that flattens rivet shanks.
* Places hoop over mandrel of hoop-flaring machine and moves leg control to expand jaws that flare hoop to conform to shape of barrel.
* May be designated according to machine operated as hoop-flaring-machine operator; hoop-punch-and-coiler operator; hoop-riveting machine operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists diesel mechanic in overhauling and maintaining diesel motors used to operate trucks, generators, and other equipment. Respnsibilities include:
* Disassembles motor and cleans parts.
* Obtains parts from stock and hands tools to mechanic.
* Assists in reassembly, and cleans tools and working area.
* Performs other duties as described under helper master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who prepares samples of paper and paper products for filing and mailing, performing any combination of following tasks. Responsibilities include:
* Collects samples of paper from paper machines, coating machines, supercalenders and cutting machines.
* Cuts samples to specified dimensions, using paper cutter.
* Marks samples with identifying information, such as customer order number, batch number, and grade and color of paper, or pastes labels on samples.
* Files samples for use in tracing technical defects or to facilitate processing of repeat orders, mails samples to customers, or distributes them to plant officials for examination.
* May compare samples with standard or customer's sample to ascertain that paper meets specifications of grade and color.
* May send samples to laboratory for testing and compare test reports with specifications.
* May address packages of samples to be mailed to customers, by hand or using typewriter.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects, tests, repairs, maintains, services, and modifies experimental and prototype aircraft, engines, accessories, and components according to governmental, company, and customer requirements. Respnsibilities include:
* Assembles and installs aircraft electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and structural accessories and components, such as ejection seats, hatch mechanisms, and safety belts, using handtools and power tools.
* Installs, operates, and adjusts test apparatus, such as recorders, oscillographs, limit switches, inverters, thermocouples, instruments, cameras, timing devices, and photo recorders.
* Operates aircraft engines and systems, such as hydraulic, air-conditioning, pressurization, fuel, controls, and landing gear, to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment, such as hydraulic test bench, pressure ratio bench, water injection test cart, and ground power unit.
* Repairs, adjusts, aligns, and calibrates aircraft systems.
* Modifies aircraft structure or components following drawings, engineering orders, and other technical publications, as required.
* Services and maintains gaseous, liquid oxygen, pneumatic, and hydraulic systems on aircraft.
* May specialize in testing and modifying spacecraft systems and be designated Experimental Mechanic, Spacecraft.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who investigates problems of assigned community and of individuals disadvantaged because of income, age, or other economic or personal handicaps to determine needs. Responsibilities include:
* Seeks out, interviews, and assists persons in need of agency services, under direction of professional staff, or refers persons to specific agencies for service.
* Visits individuals and families in their homes to explain supportive services and resources available to persons needing special assistance.
* Speaks before neighborhood groups to establish communication and rapport between persons in community and agency, to publicize supportive services available, and to assist in resolving problems facing community concerning housing, urban renewal, education, welfare, unemployment insurance, and crime prevention.
* Follows up all contacts and prepares and submits reports of activities.
* May maintain files and records of work activities to provide access to and retrieval of data.
* May work for police department for purpose of establishing communication between citizens and police officials to promote understanding of functions, purpose, and goals of police in community and assists in resolution of community problems.
Industry:Professional careers
