- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who develops and implements safety program to prevent or correct unsafe environmental working conditions, utilizing knowledge of industrial processes, mechanics, chemistry, psychology, and industrial health and safety laws. Responsibilities include:
* Examines plans and specifications for new machinery or equipment to determine if all safety precautions have been included.
* Determines amount of weight that can be safely placed on plant floor.
* Tours plant to inspect fire and safety equipment, machinery, and facilities to identify and correct potential hazards and ensure compliance with safety regulations.
* Determines requirements for safety clothing and devices, and designs, builds, and installs, or directs installation of safety devices on machinery.
* Conducts or coordinates safety and first aid training to educate workers about safety policies, laws, and practices.
* Investigates industrial accidents to minimize recurrence and prepares accident reports.
* May conduct air quality tests for presence of harmful gases and vapors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who operates remote-controlled equipment in hot cell to conduct metallurgical and chemical tests on radioactive materials. Responsibilities include:
* Controls slave manipulators from outside cell to remove metal or chemical materials from shielded containers inside hot cell and places on bench or equipment work station.
* Tests chemical or metallurgical properties of materials according to standardized procedures, and observes reaction through cell window.
* Sets up and operates machines to cut, lap, and polish test pieces, following blueprints, x-ray negatives, and sketches.
* Tests physical properties, using equipment, such as tensile tester, hardness tester, metallographic unit, micrometer, and gauges.
* Immerses test sample in chemical compound to prepare for testing.
* Places irradiated nuclear fuel materials in environmental chamber to test reaction to temperature changes.
* Records results of tests for further analysis by engineers, scientists, or customers.
* Places specimen in shielded container for removal from cell, using manipulators.
* Participates in cleaning and decontamination of cell during maintenance shutdown.
* May devise adapters and fixtures for use in hot cell operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts tests on mechanical equipment performing duties as described under test engineer master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and coordinates private or government industrial health program requiring application of engineering principles and technology to analyze and control conditions contributing to occupational hazards and diseases. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts plant or area surveys to determine safe limits of exposure to materials or conditions, such as temperatures, noise, dusts, fumes, vapors, mists, gases, solvents, and radiation which are known or suspected of being real or potential detriments to health, and implements or recommends control measures.
* Directs workers engaged in field and laboratory verification of compliance with health regulations.
* Provides technical guidance to management, labor organizations, government agencies, and civic groups regarding health-related problems, such as stream and air pollution and correct use of protective clothing or accessories.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes blueprints or prototype parts to determine tools, fixtures, and equipment needed for manufacture and plans sequence of operations for fabrication and assembly of products, such as aircraft assemblies, automobile parts, cutting tools, or ball bearings. Responsibilities include:
* Studies engineering blueprints, drawings, models, and other specifications to obtain data on proposed part.
* Applies knowledge of functions and processes of various departments and capacities of machines and equipment to determine tool requirements and establish sequence of operations to fabricate and assemble parts.
* Lists operations to be performed on routing card or paper, indicates machines, cutting tools, fixtures, and other equipment to be used, and estimates times needed to perform each operation.
* May prepare reports for production planner in scheduling work for entire plant.
* May plan tool and operation sequences for only one department.
* May specify type of material to be used in construction of tools.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and directs engineering activities of a petroleum company to develop oil fields and produce oil and gas. Responsibilities include:
* Formulates programs for developing oil fields, planning schedules for drilling wells and for constructing pumping units, crude-oil treating units, and other production facilities.
* Coordinates projected activities with civil, electrical, and other engineering departments.
* Directs, through subordinate workers, selection, installation, use, and repair of oil field equipment.
* Directs petroleum engineers in engineering work concerned with drilling new wells and producing flow of oil or gas from wells, in maintaining well logs, and in other engineering activities.
* Directs laboratory and field research to develop new or to improve old methods and equipment for recovery of oil and gas.
* Keeps abreast of new developments in petroleum engineering.
* Selects, trains, and promotes engineering personnel.
* May direct mechanical, civil, electrical, and other engineering activities.
* May direct engineering and drilling activities in developing geothermal field and be designated Director, Geothermal Operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who researches, develops, designs, and tests electrical components, equipment, and systems, applying principles and techniques of electrical engineering. Responsibilities include:
* Designs electrical equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for commercial, industrial, and domestic purposes (design engineer, facilities master title; design engineer, products master title).
* Designs and directs engineering personnel in fabrication of test control apparatus and equipment, and determines methods, procedures, and conditions for testing products (test engineer master title).
* Develops applications of controls, instruments, and systems for new commercial, domestic, and industrial uses.
* Directs activities to ensure that manufacturing, construction, installation, and operational testing conform to functional specifications and customer requirements.
* May direct and coordinate operation, maintenance, and repair of equipment and systems in field installations.
* May specialize in specific area of discipline, such as electrical energy generation, transmission, and distribution systems; products, such as appliances, generators, transformers, control devices, and relays; or area of work, such as manufacturing, applications, or installation.
* May use computer-assisted engineering and design software and equipment to perform engineering tasks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of engineering project within area of assigned responsibility. Responsibilities include:
* Plans and formulates engineering program and organizes project staff according to project requirements.
* Assigns project personnel to specific phases or aspects of project, such as technical studies, product design, preparation of specifications and technical plans, and product testing, in accordance with engineering disciplines of staff.
* Reviews product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications.
* Coordinates activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling, and resolving engineering design and test problems.
* Directs integration of technical activities and products.
* Evaluates and approves design changes, specifications, and drawing releases.
* Controls expenditures within limitations of project budget.
* Prepares interim and completion project reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in drafting and designing layouts of printed circuit boards (PCB's) for use in manufacture of electronic equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with PCB vendors to resolve problems encountered with board design.
* Reviews cost quotations for equipment and attends demonstrations to select equipment for purchase.
* Requisitions supplies, such as film positives.
* May design or change design of layout for PCB's (drafter master title).
* Performs duties as described under supervisor (any industry) master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts studies of nonmetallic minerals used in horological industry.
* Performs experimental research concerned with projects, such as development of diamond tools and dies, fabrication of jeweled bearings, and development of grinding $T3laps III$T1 and wheels.
* Tests industrial diamonds and abrasives to determine grain size, pattern, crystalline orientation, goniometric features and other factors in order to appraise their suitability for use, using optical, x-ray, and other precision instruments.
* Repairs diamond and abrasive tools.
* Develops improved methods of fabricating silicon-carbide compounds into bearings and investigates substitution of other materials.
Industry:Professional careers
