- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in testing finished and semifinished metal sample specimens to determine if metallurgical and physical properties meet manufacturing specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews production schedules to ascertain work load and prepares schedules and priorities for work.
* Assigns personnel to specific work assignments and reviews test reports to determine if physical characteristics of sample specimens meet metallurgical specifications and quality control standards.
* Investigates causes of defective material and advises supervisory personnel of production department responsible of processing defects.
* Determines disposition of substandard material, according to established precedent or practice or upon approval of superior, such as downgrading, reprocessing, or scrapping material.
* Advises metallurgical personnel on problems involving quality control and testing techniques and methods and on application of metallurgical specifications to metal products.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drafts designs of electromechanical equipment such as aircraft engine subassemblies, electronic optical-character-recognition and related data processing systems, gyroscopes, rocket engine control systems, automatic materials handling and processing machinery, or bio-medical equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with engineers and other drafters to interpret design concepts, determine nature and type of required detailed working drawings, and coordinate work with others.
* Drafts detail and assembly drawings performing duties described under drafter master title.
* Compiles data, computes quantities, determines materials needed, and prepares cost estimates.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who sells electrical products, power, and systems and provides technical services to clients, performing duties as described under sales engineer master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates program activities designed to provide subcontractors, management, and customers with logistics technology that ensures effective and economical support concerned for manufacturing or servicing of products, systems, or equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes contractual commitments, customer specifications, design changes, and other data to plan and develop logistic program activities from conceptual stage through life-cycle of product.
* Develops and implements program activities, coordinates efforts of subcontractors, production departments, and field service personnel, and resolves problems in area of logistics to ensure meeting of contractual commitments.
* Develops and initiates preparation of handbooks, bulletins, and information systems to provide and supply logistics support.
* Compiles data on standardization and interchangeability of parts to expedite logistics activities.
* Determines logistic support sequences and time phasing, problems arising from location of operational area, and other factors, such as environmental and human factors affecting personnel.
* May perform special research or technical studies critical to logistic support functions.
* May utilize computer techniques for analysis, simulation or information systems and documentation.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines engineering drawings of military and commercial parts, assemblies, and installations to detect errors in design documents. Responsibilities include:
* Compares figures and lines on production drawing or diagram with production layout, examining angles, dimensions, bend allowances, and tolerances for accuracy.
* Determines practicality of design, material selection, available tooling, and fabrication process, applying knowledge of drafting and manufacturing methods.
* Confers with design personnel to resolve drawing and design discrepancies.
* May specialize in checking specific types of designs, such as mechanical assemblies, microelectronic circuitry, or fluid-flow systems.
* May operate copier equipment to make duplicates of designs.
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 applies standardized mathematical formulas, principles, and methodology to technological problems in engineering and physical sciences in relation to specific industrial and research objectives, processes, equipment and products. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with professional, scientific, and engineering personnel to plan project.
* Analyzes raw data from computer or recorded on photographic film or other media.
* Selects most practical and accurate combination and sequence of computational methods, using algebra, trigonometry, geometry, vector analysis and calculus to reduce raw data to meaningful and manageable terms.
* Selects most economical and reliable combination of manual, mechanical, or data processing methods and equipment consistent with data reduction requirements.
* Modifies standard formulas to conform to data processing method selected.
* Translates data into numerical values, equations, flow charts, graphs or other media.
* Analyzes processed data to detect errors.
* May operate calculator or computer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who studies physical aspects of earth, including its atmosphere and hydrosphere. Responsibilities include:
* Investigates and measures seismic, gravitational, electrical, thermal, and magnetic forces affecting earth, utilizing principles of physics, mathematics, and chemistry.
* Analyzes data obtained to compute shape of earth, estimate composition and structure of earth's interior, determine flow pattern of ocean tides and currents, study physical properties of atmosphere, and help locate petroleum and mineral deposits.
* Investigates origin and activity of glaciers, volcanoes, and earthquakes.
* Compiles data to prepare navigational charts and maps, predict atmospheric conditions, prepare environmental reports, and establish water supply and flood-control programs.
* May study specific aspect of geophysics and be designated Geomagnetician; Glaciologist; Oceanographer, Physical; Tectonophysicist; Volcanologist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who lays out plans and estimates costs for constructing transmission lines (high-tension facilities for carrying power from source to distributing points). Responsibilities include:
* Visits proposed construction site and selects best and shortest route to avoid interference with telephone or other lines.
* Submits data on proposed route to right-of-way department for obtaining necessary easements.
* Arranges for aerial, topographical, and other surveys to be made to obtain pertinent data for planning lines.
* Devises steel and wood supporting structures for cables and draws sketch showing their location.
* Performs detailed engineering calculations to draw up construction specifications, such as cable sag, pole strength, and necessary grounding.
* Estimates labor, material, and construction costs, and draws up specifications for purchase of materials and equipment.
* Keeps informed on new developments in electric power transmission.
* Assists various departments of power company on problems involving transmission-line operation and maintenance.
* Inspects completed installation.
* Does not usually plan facilities for distributing power to consumers (power-distribution engineer (utilities))
Industry:Professional careers
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
