- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who plans utilization of space and facilities for government agency or unit or business establishment consistent with requirements of organizational efficiency and available facilities and funds. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects buildings and office areas to evaluate suitability for occupancy, considering such factors as air circulation, lighting, location, and size.
* Measures or directs workers engaged in measurement of facilities to determine total square footage available for occupancy.
* Computes square footage available for each member of staff to determine whether minimum space restrictions can be met.
* Draws design layout, showing location of furniture, equipment, doorways, electrical and telephone outlets, and other facilities.
* May review real estate contracts for compliance with government specifications and suitability for occupancy of employing agency.
* May direct workers engaged in moving furniture and equipment and preparing facilities for occupancy.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops and tests machinery and equipment, applying knowledge of mechanical engineering technology, under direction of engineering and scientific staff. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews project instructions and blueprints to ascertain test specifications, procedures, objectives, test equipment, nature of technical problem, and possible solutions, such as part redesign, substitution of material or parts, or rearrangement of parts or subassemblies.
* Drafts detail drawing or sketch for drafting room completion or to request parts fabrication by machine, sheet metal or wood shops.
* Devises, fabricates, and assembles new or modified mechanical components or assemblies for products, such as industrial equipment and machinery, power equipment, servosystems, machine tools, and measuring instruments.
* Sets up and conducts tests of complete units and components under operational conditions to investigate design proposals for improving equipment performance or other factors, or to obtain data for development, standardization, and quality control.
* Analyzes indicated and calculated test results in relation to design or rated specifications and test objectives, and modifies or adjusts equipment to meet specifications.
* Records test procedures and results, numerical and graphical data, and recommendations for changes in product or test method.
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A professional who plans and lays out telephone transmitting facilities from engineering sketches. Responsibilities include:
* Advises and assists operation forces on application of transmission methods, devices, and standards affecting telephone equipment.
* Provides engineering services for protection of telephone service and facilities from noise, cross-talk, electrolysis, lightning, and other adverse electrical effects.
* Investigates causes of personal injury resulting from contact with high voltage communication equipment.
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A professional who sells ceramic products and provides technical services for client performing duties as described under sales engineer master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who administers statewide highway planning, design, construction, and maintenance programs. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates activities of state highway engineering agencies.
* Reviews highway and bridge plans, location, contracts, and cost estimates for technical and legal accuracy, and approves acceptable proposals or makes corrective recommendations.
* Directs workers in research activities related to highway planning and engineering, and formulates highway engineering policies and procedures.
* Directs preparation of state agency budgets.
* Directs workers in preparation of reports to state and federal government officials and represents state highway commissioner at hearings with public officials, contractors, and engineering personnel.
* Speaks before civic groups and public gatherings to disseminate highway planning information and to solicit public support.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and participates in activities concerned with study, development, and inspection of solid-waste resource recovery systems and marketability of solid-waste recovery products. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts studies of chemical and mechanical solid-waste recovery processes and system designs to evaluate efficiency and cost-effectiveness of proposed operations.
* Inspects solid-waste resource recovery facilities to determine compliance with regulations governing construction and use.
* Collects data on resource recovery systems and analyzes alternate plans to determine most feasible systems for specific solid-waste recovery purposes.
* Prepares recommendations for development of resource recovery programs, based on analysis of alternate plans and knowledge of physical properties of various solid-waste materials.
* Confers with design engineers, management personnel, and others concerned with recovery of solid-waste resources to discuss problems and provide technical advice.
* Coordinates activities of workers engaged in study of potential markets for reclaimable materials.
* Lectures civic and professional organizations and provides information about practices to media representatives to promote interest and participation in solid-waste recovery practices.
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A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in analysis of oil well drilling mud and well cuttings during drilling operations to detect presence of oil or gas and identify productive strata. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates work of well-logging operators, mud analysis engaged in continuous sampling and analysis of mud circulating through wells being drilled and preparation of mud analysis logs.
* Reviews analysis made by workers of cores cut from wells to determine nature of earth formations penetrated.
* Summarizes log data and core analysis records for engineering personnel.
* Initiates or recommends personnel actions, such as pay increase, transfer or discipline.
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A professional who analyzes preliminary engineering-design concepts of major product, such as aircraft, naval vessel, or electronic communication or control system to recommend design or test methods for attaining customer-specified operational reliability, using knowledge of reliability engineering and other technologies. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes preliminary plans and develops reliability engineering program to achieve customer reliability objectives.
* Analyzes projected product utilization and calculates cumulative effect on final system reliability of individual part reliabilities.
* Drafts $T3failure mode and effect analysis$T1 sheets or formulates $T3mathematical models,$T1 using computer-aided engineering equipment, to identify units posing excessive failure risks and support proposed changes in design.
* Enters data to simulate electrical inputs, transient conditions, temperature, stress, and other factors to develop computer models, and analyzes and adjusts design to predict and improve system reliability.
* Advises and confers with engineers in design review meetings to give reliability findings and recommendations.
* Determines units requiring environmental testing and specifies minimum number of samples to obtain statistically valid data.
* Reviews subcontractors' proposals for reliability program and submits evaluation for decision.
* Reviews engineering specifications and drawings, proposing design modifications to improve reliability within cost and other performance requirements.
* Observes conduct of tests at supplier, plant, or field locations to evaluate reliability factors, such as numbers and causes of unit failures.
* Monitors failure data generated by customer using product to ascertain potential requirement for product improvement.
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A professional who lays out, fabricates, assembles, and tests mechanical, electromechanical, structural, hydraulic, and pneumatic aircraft parts, assemblies, and mechanisms to assist engineers in determining faulty design or fabrication procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Lays out, fabricates, and assembles parts, assemblies, and mechanisms to be tested, according to blueprints, specifications, sketches, templates, or verbal instructions.
* Installs test specimens, such as rib assemblies, struts, landing gears, valves, ducts, fuselage sections, and control surfaces, in test equipment, and connects wiring, tubing, couplings, and power sources, using handtools and power tools.
* Operates test equipment to gather data on performance of parts, assemblies, and mechanisms under simulated flight and operational conditions.
* Measures induced variations from normal, using precision instruments, such as micrometers, verniers, calipers, pressure gauges, flowmeters, strain gauges, and dynamometers.
* Records and interprets test data.
* Confers with engineering personnel regarding test procedures and test results.
* Fabricates and assembles test equipment, tooling, shop aids, or other devices for experimental test projects.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts research on chemical processes and equipment, performing duties as described under research engineer master title.
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