- Industry: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who tends machine that cuts potatoes into sections of uniform size for use as seed. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes button to start machinery that carries potatoes to, through, and from cutter blades.
* Arranges potatoes, according to size, on feed conveyor in line with knives.
* Discards diseased and rotting potatoes.
* Monitors potato flow and observes machinery operation to detect jams and malfunctions.
* Clears jams, and reports malfunctions to supervisor.
* Rakes up potatoes and potato sections that have fallen from conveyors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who cuts seed potatoes into sections of uniform size for mechanical planting, using any of following methods. Respnsibilities include:
* (1) Cuts potato into sections containing one or more eyes, using paring knife or draws potato along knife attached to table.
* (2) Dumps potatoes into hopper of machine that cuts potatoes in half.
* (3) Places potatoes on revolving arms of machine that cuts potatoes into quarters.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plants, cultivates, and harvests field crops, such as cotton, hops, and tobacco, working as crewmember. Respnsibilities include:
* Plants seeds or digs up and transplants seedlings and sets, using handtools such as hoes and scoops.
* Chops out weeds, thins plants to leave sturdier plants spaced at regular intervals, and hills up soil around plant roots to retain moisture and protect roots from temperature extremes, using hoe.
* Cuts vines from trellis, using knife, or pulls leaves from stalks to harvest crop.
* Stacks or packs crop in containers and loads containers on trucks or wagons.
* May propagate plants in covered cold-frame beds and pull up seedlings to be transplanted.
* May set up poles, string wires and twine among poles to form trellises, and secure plants and cloth netting to trellis structure to support growing plants and provide shade.
* May cut or pull away tops, leaves, and suckers from plants during growing season.
* May spray fungicides and pesticides on plants to destroy diseases and insects, using hand or engine-powered pump sprayer.
* May stack empty harvest containers in field area.
* May sharpen hoes, using portable grinding wheel and hand file.
* May be identified with task performed, such as pole setting, raking, suckering, and picking, or according to crop as Cotton Farmworker; Hops Farmworker; Tobacco Farmworker.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who harvests field crops, such as broomcorn, cotton, hops, peanuts, sugarcane, and tobacco, working as crewmember. Respnsibilities include:
* Walks, stoops, crawls, or sits between plant rows to reach harvestable crop.
* Pulls, twists, or cuts fibers, leaves, stalks, straw, or vines, selected according to color, size, and shape, from bolls, roots, stalks, or trellises; by hand or using knife, machete, or sickle.
* Collects crop into containers, such as bags, boxes, and bundles, or piles and stacks crop in windrows.
* Picks up and carries bundles, bales, containers, or stacks of harvested crop to collection point, and loads crop onto truck or wagon, by hand or using hoist or hooks.
* May tie leaves, stalks, straws, or vines into bundles, using twine, clamps, or rubber bands.
* May shake dirt from vines and stack vines or straw around stakes or stalks, by hand or using pitchfork, to protect crop from weathering on damp soil.
* May gather up and load scattered leaves, vines, or pods on truck.
* May burn debris, leaves, and stalks.
* May be identified with duties performed, such as cutting, picking, carrying, and loading; or with crop worked, such as alfalfa, mint, and sugar beets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in propagating, cultivating, and harvesting horticultural specialties, such as trees, shrubs, flowering plants, flowers, and mushrooms, applying knowledge of environmental-control structures, systems, and techniques and plant culture. Respnsibilities include:
* Discusses plant growing activities with management personnel to plan planting and picking schedules and employee assignments; obtain authorization for changes in fertilizer, herbicide, and pesticide application techniques and formulas; resolve problems; and develop procedures for new species in product line and new cultivation techniques.
* Observes plants and flowers in greenhouses, pots, cold frames, and fields to ascertain condition, such as leaf texture and bloom size; and oversees changes in humidity and temperature levels and cultivation procedures to ensure conformance with quality control standards.
* Prepares and assigns work schedules.
* Trains new employees in gardening techniques, such as transplanting and weeding, and grading and packaging activities.
* Inspects facilities for signs of disrepair, such as missing glass panes and clogged sprinklers, and delegates repair duties to ensure refurbishing or replacement of parts in environmental-control structures and systems.
* May drive and operate heavy machinery, such as dump truck, four-wheeled tractor, and growth-media tiller, to handle materials and supplies.
* May perform variety of duties involving propagation, care, and marketing of plants and crops.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May be identified according to kind of establishment as Greenhouse Superintendent; or crop as Mushroom-Growing Supervisor; Orchid Superintendent.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in grading flowers according to size and appearance characteristics, and packaging customer orders in greenhouse. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads inventory records, customer orders, and shipping schedules to ascertain day's activity requirements.
* Assigns duties to subordinates and informs workers of departures from established routines.
* Collects, reviews, and compares daily work tallies, and looks at and feels flower bunches and rejected flowers to ascertain quantity and quality of subordinates' work.
* Prepares and submits written and oral reports of personnel actions, such as performance evaluations, hires, promotions, and discipline.
* Explains and demonstrates grading techniques and packing procedures to train new workers.
* Grades and packs flowers, according to specifications, to maintain workflow during emergencies and periods of increased work load.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in grading flowers according to size and appearance characteristics, and packaging customer orders in greenhouse. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads inventory records, customer orders, and shipping schedules to ascertain day's activity requirements.
* Assigns duties to subordinates and informs workers of departures from established routines.
* Collects, reviews, and compares daily work tallies, and looks at and feels flower bunches and rejected flowers to ascertain quantity and quality of subordinates' work.
* Prepares and submits written and oral reports of personnel actions, such as performance evaluations, hires, promotions, and discipline.
* Explains and demonstrates grading techniques and packing procedures to train new workers.
* Grades and packs flowers, according to specifications, to maintain workflow during emergencies and periods of increased work load.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grows dwarf (Bonsai) trees. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects seedlings or other small trees suitable for Bonsai.
* Stunts plant growth, using root and branch pruning techniques and soil and fertilizer mixtures.
* Trains limbs and branches to achieve artistic shape, using cutters and wires.
* Arranges plantings in containers, selected according to style, size, and shape complimentary to arrangement, and adds decorative materials, such as rocks, moss, and mirrors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who grows dwarf (Bonsai) trees. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects seedlings or other small trees suitable for Bonsai.
* Stunts plant growth, using root and branch pruning techniques and soil and fertilizer mixtures.
* Trains limbs and branches to achieve artistic shape, using cutters and wires.
* Arranges plantings in containers, selected according to style, size, and shape complimentary to arrangement, and adds decorative materials, such as rocks, moss, and mirrors.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who propagates and grows horticultural-specialty products and crops, such as seeds, bulbs, rootstocks, sod, ornamental plants, and cut flowers. Respnsibilities include:
* Plans acreage utilization and work schedules, according to knowledge of crop culture, climate and market conditions, seed, bulb, or rootstock availability, and employable work force and machinery.
* Attaches farm implements, such as disk and fertilizer spreader, to tractor and drives tractor in fields to till soil and plant and cultivate crop.
* Inspects fields periodically to ascertain nutrient deficiencies, detect insect, disease, and pest infestations, and identify foreign-plant growth, and selects, purchases, and schedules materials, such as fertilizers and herbicides, to ensure quality control.
* Hires field workers; assigns their duties according to scheduled activities, such as planting, irrigating, weeding, and harvesting; and oversees their activities.
* Maintains personnel and production records.
* Arranges with customers for sale of crop.
* May oversee activities, such as product cleaning, grading, and packaging.
* May provide customer services, such as planning and building planters, walls, and patios, and planting and caring for landscape and display arrangements.
* May bud or graft scion stock on plantings to alter growth characteristics.
* May develop new variations of species specialty to produce crops with specialized market-appeal, such as disease resistance or color brilliance.
* May cultivate out-of-season seedlings and crops, using greenhouse.
* May cultivate cover crop, such as hay or rye, in rotation with horticultural specialty to rejuvenate soil.
* May drive and operate self-propelled harvesting machine.
* May lubricate, adjust, and make minor repairs on farm machinery and equipment.
* May build, remove, and repair farm structures, such as fences and sheds.
* May be designated according to crop as Bulb Grower; Flower Grower; Grass Farmer; Rose Grower; Seed Grower; Shrub Grower.
Industry:Professional careers
