- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who directs construction, operation, and maintenance of telephone or telegraph communication systems. Responsibilities include:
* Studies and accepts or rejects recommendations for improvement or additions to communication facilities.
* Investigates availability and approves cost estimates of new equipment requested.
* Approves or rejects equipment rental and electric-power contracts.
* Supervises personnel and performs other administrative duties to ensure efficient operation.
* May direct installation and operation of radio communications systems.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates, through subordinate supervisors, activities concerned with inspection, repair, and maintenance of railroad equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with department heads to establish administrative and operational policies and procedures for following federal, Railroad Association, and union regulations and agreements.
* Interprets policies and procedures for subordinate supervisors, and monitors activities to ensure that policies and procedures are followed.
* Analyzes records of daily operations, such as freight car inspections, repairs completed or scheduled, or worker absenteeism, to maintain knowledge of department activities.
* Instructs subordinates to institute specific measures, such as studies and maintaining bar graphs, to monitor productivity.
* Discusses freight car repairs with shippers or consignees and inspection and repair violations with federal and public representatives to resolve concerns, such as time of repair, repair cost, and methods of preventing future violations.
* Monitors inventory of parts and materials and prepares requisition forms for items in short supply.
* Conducts investigations of personnel matters, such as continued tardiness, excessive absenteeism, or safety violations; negotiates with union representative matters, such as contract violations, job abolishment, and reallocation of human resources; and prepares required reports, according to prescribed procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and coordinates inspection, maintenance, and repair of railroad equipment within assigned railroad region. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes productivity and budget reports to determine allocation of work force, and equipment and productivity of inspection and repair facilities within assigned region.
* Confers with shop and yard supervisory personnel and shippers to stay apprised of daily work schedules and to ensure priority scheduling of repairs for railcars needed back in service.
* Oversees administrative matters, such as training policies, budget allocations, and equipment replacement.
* Monitors administration of safety program, according to company rules, union agreements, and federal regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in installation, maintenance, and repair of underground, buried, aerial, or submarine telephone carrier cables in plant district. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews proposed construction plans and schematic drawings to ensure that proposals are compatible with existing equipment and that plans adhere to specifications.
* Inspects construction sites and installations to ensure service deadlines are being met.
* Directs and coordinates testing and inspecting of plant equipment for operational performance.
* Prepares budget, determines work force requirements, and establishes production schedules to meet service loads.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in installation, maintenance, repair, expansion, and relocation of water distribution and sewage facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes trends, such as population and industrial growth of area being served to determine adequacy of current facilities and to project community demands for future facilities.
* Develops plans to meet and serve expanding community needs, such as increasing capacity of water storage and filtration facilities, or arranging new sources of water supply.
* Plans methods and sequence of operations to facilitate additions, deletions and modifications to the system.
* Directs activities of subordinate personnel who oversee installation, maintenance, and repair of water distribution and sewage facilities.
* Inspects field projects to confirm conformance to specifications.
* Confers with administrative and technical personnel and personnel of other utilities to coordinate departmental activities.
* Evaluates new developments in materials, tools, and equipment to recommend or deny purchase.
* Prepares budget estimates based on anticipated needs of department.
* For classification of workers concerned only with water supply see supervisor, waterworks; for those concerned only with sewage disposal see supervisor, sewer system.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates work of various departments to produce radio or television programs and commercial announcements. Responsibilities include:
* Trains, assigns duties, and supervises employees engaged in production and taping such programs as game shows, talk broadcasts, and special programs.
* Ensures that slanderous, libelous, and profane statements are avoided or deleted and that program is in conformance with station or network policy and regulations.
* Schedules usage of studio and editing facilities needed by producers , and engineering and maintenance staff to maximize use of facilities, according to scheduled events.
* Operates television broadcasting equipment, such as switcher, video and color monitors, tape decks, lights and microphones to train workers or to substitute for absent employees.
* Operates portable, shoulder-mounted camera to record or broadcast live programs from location of event.
* May direct subordinates in auditioning talent and proposed programs.
* May coordinate audio work, scenes, music, timing, camera work, and script writing, to develop desired production, and review production to ensure objectives are obtained.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates scheduled service within assigned territory of streetcar, bus, or railway transportation system. Responsibilities include:
* Periodically observes vehicles along route to ensure that service is provided according to schedule.
* Investigates schedule delays, accidents, equipment failures, and complaints, and files written report.
* Reports disruptions to service, using radiotelephone.
* Determines need for changes in service, such as additional coaches, route changes, and revised schedules to increase operating efficiency and improve service.
* Drives automobile along route to detect conditions hazardous to equipment and passengers, and negotiates with local government personnel to eliminate hazards.
* Assists in dispatching equipment when necessary.
* Recommends promotions and disciplinary actions involving transportation personnel.
* Inspects mechanical malfunctions of vehicles along route and directs repair.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates movement of freight by barge or lighter to provide most efficient service to shippers consistent with available equipment and facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Determines number and kind of barges and lighters needed to transport cargo.
* Coordinates movement of vessels to ensure most efficient service.
* Assigns barges and lighters to individual haulage jobs and issues orders to tugboat captains.
* Compiles or directs activities of workers engaged in compilation of periodic reports on freight tonnage transported and cost of operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of news department of radio or television network or station. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with executives and production staff members regarding budget, station policy, news coverage of special events, and production problems.
* Originates or approves feature ideas and sends ideas to personnel of assignment department for implementation.
* Monitors news development and reviews edited copy and news film.
* Approves program content or issues directions for changes or modification.
* Coordinates news staff activities with radio or television programming, traffic, and film editing departments.
* Hires, discharges, and evaluates performance of news staff.
* May operate video equipment to review and approve news film or tape, using knowledge of usage of equipment.
* May write or type news copy, letters, and memos.
* May perform production duties or directly supervise those performing them in smaller station.
* May be designated according to media as Director, Radio News; Director, Television News.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates operations departments of radio, television or cable television station. Responsibilities include:
* Carries out general policies established by company officers.
* Prepares and administers budget for program department.
* Makes decisions pertaining to general policies beyond scope of authority of department heads under jurisdiction.
* Approves hiring and discharging of department personnel.
* May compose memos on budgetary and policy matters, using computer.
Industry:Professional careers
