- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who directs and coordinates quality inspection of parts, components, and materials produced by subcontractors and vendors, and surveillance of subcontractors' manufacturing processes. Responsibilities include:
* Directs sampling inspection, and testing of received parts, components, and materials to determine conformance to standards.
* Conducts periodic and special surveys of subcontractors' facilities and manufacturing processes to determine adequacy and capability of quality control and ability to comply with complete quality specifications.
* Reviews quality problems with engineering personnel and directs action required to correct defects.
* Prepares periodic and special reports concerning departmental activities, problems, subcontractors' quality system, schedules, and rejected items.
* Aids in organizational planning by participating in departmental conferences.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs layout for integrated circuits (IC), according to engineering specifications, using computer-assisted design (CAD) equipment and software, and utilizing knowledge of electronics, drafting, and IC design rules (standard IC manufacturing process requirements). Responsibilities include:
* Reviews and analyzes engineering design schematics and supporting documents, such as logic diagrams and design rules to plan layout of IC.
* Confers with engineering staff to resolve design details or problems.
* Enters engineering specifications into computer memory of CAD equipment and composes configurations on equipment display screen of IC logic elements (basic components of integrated circuit, such as resistors and transistors) for all IC layers, using keyboard, digitizing work aids (light pen or digitizing tablet), and engineering design schematics, and applying knowledge of design rules, programmed CAD functions, and electronics.
* Compares logic element configuration on equipment display screen with engineering schematics and redesigns or modifies logic elements, as needed, using digitizing work aids (light pen or digitizing tablet), keyboard, and programmed CAD functions.
* Lays out, redesigns, and modifies arrangement and interconnections of logic elements for each layer of integrated circuit, using digitizing work aids (light pen or digitizing tablet), keyboard and programmed CAD functions listed on display screen.
* Keys in specified commands, using CAD equipment keyboard, to test final IC layout for errors in design rules, using design rule software package.
* May generate copy of logic element design, using plotter to verify that logic element design copy meets design requirements and for use in laying out IC layer design for Very Large Scale (VLS) integrated circuits.
* May generate tape of final layout design for use in producing photo masks for each layer of IC, using CAD equipment.
* May program CAD equipment to change CAD functions listed on display screen, using keyboard.
* May be designated according to complexity of IC designed as IC Designer, Custom; IC Designer, Gate Arrays; IC Designer, Standard Cells.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who records readings of gravity meter, torsion balance, and other gravity-measuring instruments at various points in terrain to obtain data regarding gravity characteristics indicating potential source of metallic ore or petroleum deposits. Responsibilities include:
* Sets up or directs set-up of instruments at specified location and records readings.
* Examines readings for accurate registration and adjusts instruments to specifications.
* Reads thermometers, barometers, and other instruments and records variations in temperature, barometric pressure, elevation, and other physical factors that affect instrument readings.
* May be designated according to instrument used as Gravity-Meter Observer; Magnetometer Operator.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who assists civil engineer in application of principles, methods, and techniques of civil engineering technology. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews project specifications and confers with civil engineer concerning assistance required, such as plan preparation, acceptance testing, evaluation of field conditions, design changes, and reports.
* Conducts materials testing and analysis, using tools and equipment and applying engineering knowledge necessary to conduct tests.
* Prepares reports detailing tests conducted and results.
* Surveys project sites to obtain and analyze topographical details of sites, using maps and surveying equipment.
* Drafts detailed dimensional drawings, such as those needed for highway plans, structural steel fabrication, and water control projects, performing duties as described under drafter master title.
* Calculates dimensions, profile specifications, and quantities of materials such as steel, concrete, and asphalt, using calculator.
* Inspects construction site to determine conformance of site to design specifications.
* May assist engineers to ensure that construction and repair of water and wastewater treatment systems meet pollution control requirements.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs equipment and devises chemical processes to remove and separate components of gas mixture or liquid solutions by absorption and adsorption, using knowledge of chemistry and engineering. Responsibilities include:
* Devises processes and directs workers, using equipment, such as crushers, grinders, kilns, screens, pumps, compressors, pipelines, valves, tanks, and separators.
* Directs workers controlling flow of liquid or gas through an adsorbent, such as fuller's earth, clays, carbons, charcoal, and bone char in granular form (percolation method); or mixing adsorbent with liquid or gas and removing adsorbent by filtration, settling, or combination of both (contact filtration method).
* Directs workers, using absorption method to remove soluble constituent of gas or vapor by dissolving it in a liquid, using packed columns or towers into which liquid is sprayed.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drafts electrical equipment working drawings and wiring diagrams used by construction crews and repairers who erect, install, and repair electrical equipment and wiring in communications centers, power plants, industrial establishments, commercial or domestic buildings, or electrical distribution systems, performing duties as described under drafter master title.
* May use computer-assisted drafting (CAD) equipment and software and be designated Drafter (CAD), Electrical.
* May prepare detail cable layout and diagrams for cable installation and be designated Electric-Cable Diagrammer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts research on nuclear equipment and machinery, performing duties as described under research engineer master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs and directs construction and operation of hygienic projects such as waterworks, sewage, garbage and trash disposal plants, drainage systems, and insect and rodent control projects. Responsibilities include:
* Plans development of watersheds and directs building of aqueducts, filtration plants, and storage and distribution systems for water supply.
* Directs swamp drainage, insect spraying, and design of insect-proof buildings.
* Plans and directs workers in building and operation of sewage-disposal plants.
* Designs and controls operation of incinerators, sanitary fills, and garbage-reduction plants to dispose of garbage and other refuse.
* Advises industrial plants in disposal of obnoxious gases, oils, greases, and other chemicals.
* Inspects and regulates sanitary condition of public places, such as markets, parks, and camps.
* May plan and direct operation of water treatment plant to soften and purify water for human consumption or industrial use and be known as Water-Treatment-Plant Engineer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who advises and assists private and public organizations and military services for purposes of safeguarding life and property against fire, explosion, and related hazards. Responsibilities include:
* Makes studies of industrial, mercantile, and public buildings, homes, and other property before and after construction, considering factors, such as fire resistance of construction, usage or contents of buildings, water supplies and water delivery, and egress facilities.
* Designs or recommends materials or equipment, such as structural components protection, fire-detection equipment, alarm systems, fire extinguishing devices and systems, and advises on location, handling, installation, and maintenance.
* Recommends materials, equipment, or methods for alleviation of conditions conducive to fire.
* Devises fire protection programs, and organizes and trains personnel to carry out such programs.
* May evaluate fire departments and adequacy of laws, ordinances, and regulations affecting fire prevention or firesafety.
* Conducts research and tests on fire retardants and firesafety of materials and devices and to determine fire causes and methods of fire prevention.
* May determine fire causes and methods of fire prevention.
* May teach courses on fire prevention and protection at accredited educational institutions.
* May advise and plan for prevention of destruction by fire, wind, water, or other causes of damage.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs optical systems with specific characteristics to fit within specified physical limits of precision optical instruments, such as still- and motion-picture cameras, lens systems, telescopes, and viewing and display devices. Responsibilities include:
* Determines specifications for operations and makes adjustments to calibrate and obtain specified operational performance.
* Determines proper operation of optical system and makes adjustments to perfect system.
* Designs mounts for components to hold them in proper planes in relation to each other and instrument in which they will be used.
* Designs inspection instruments to test optical systems for defects, such as aberrations and deviations.
* May work with electrical and mechanical engineering staff to develop overall design of optical system.
Industry:Professional careers
