- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who directs and coordinates through supervisory personnel activities of railroad engine crews to ensure efficient operation of railroad in specified jurisdictions. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews engine crew personnel to evaluate workers' knowledge of operating and train-handling rules and of railroad route characteristics, such as locations and meanings of signals and types of grades on routes.
* Rides trains and observes personnel to determine conformance to regulations governing matters, such as train signals, train timetables, and emergency procedures.
* Determines speed of trains, using radar gun and electrical speed-recording device, and documents detected violations.
* Conducts investigations of train wrecks to determine causes, to assess equipment damage, to identify personnel responsible, and issues reports of findings.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and coordinates activities to provide for orderly development and improve operating efficiency of electric power system. Responsibilities include:
* Coordinates scheduling, conducting, and analysis of special studies, such as commercial and residential developments in surrounding territory, population estimates, and advantages of and facilities for interconnections with other power systems.
* Coordinates collection and analysis of operational data, such as system-load demands and generating capacity.
* Evaluates analyses and recommends additional facilities to meet requirements of new, increased, or future loads, or to improve system.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who devises and directs research, training, and monitoring programs to protect plant and laboratory personnel from radiation hazards. Responsibilities include:
* Conducts research to develop inspection standards, radiation exposure limits for personnel, safe work methods, and decontamination procedures, and tests surrounding areas to ensure that radiation is not in excess of permissible standards.
* Develops criteria for design and modification of health physics equipment, such as detectors and counters, to improve radiation protection.
* Assists in developing standards of permissible concentrations of radioisotopes in liquids and gases.
* Directs testing and monitoring of equipment and recording of personnel and plant area radiation exposure data.
* Requests bioassay samples from individuals believed to be exposed.
* Consults with scientific personnel regarding new experiments to determine that equipment or plant design conforms to health physics standards for protection of personnel.
* Conducts research pertaining to potential environmental impact of proposed atomic energy related industrial development to determine qualifications for licensing.
* Requisitions and maintains inventory of instruments.
* Instructs personnel in principles and regulations related to radiation hazards.
* Assigns film badges and dosimeters to personnel, and recommends changes in assignment for health reasons.
* Advises public authorities on methods of dealing with radiation hazards, and procedures to be followed in radiation incidents, and assists in civil defense planning.
* May specialize in research concerning decontamination of radioactive equipment and work areas in nuclear plants, laboratories, and other facilities and be designated Nuclear-Decontamination Research Specialist.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs and drafts systems of electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic controls for machines and equipment, such as arc welders, robots, conveyors, and $T3programmable controllers,$T1 applying knowledge of electricity, electronics, hydraulics, and pneumatics. Responsibilities include:
* Discusses project with supervisor (any industry) master title and manufacturing applications engineer to review functions of machines and equipment.
* Designs and drafts arrangement of linkage of conductors, relays, and other components of electrical, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, and lubrication devices, using drafting tools, and applying knowledge of electrical engineering and drafting (drafter master title).
* Diagrams logic system for functions such as sequence and timing control.
* Designs and drafts diagrams of cable connection for robots, robot end-of-arm tool, $T3robot controller,$T1 and other machines.
* Illustrates and describes installation and maintenance details, such as where bearings should be lubricated, types of lubrication, and which parts are lubricated automatically and manually.
* Confers with industrial equipment assembler and wirer to resolve problems regarding building of controls systems.
* Reviews schematics with customer's representatives to answer questions during installation of robot systems.
* Observes gauges during trial run of programmed machine and equipment operation to verify that electrical signals in system conform to specifications.
* May design controls for energy conversion or other industrial plant monitoring systems.
* May use computer and software programs to produce design drawings and be designated Controls Designer, Computer-Assisted.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises estimators and drafters (utilities) in drawing up specifications, instructions, and cost estimates for installation of gas or electric-power distribution systems. Responsibilities include:
* Studies work orders or construction proposals and selects appropriate survey procedures and schedules work assignments.
* Reviews completed construction drawings and cost estimates for accuracy and conformity to standards and regulations.
* Confers with engineers and subordinates and assists in field surveys to resolve problems.
* Directs maintenance of files of blueprints, maps, construction sketches, cost estimates, and related records.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops detailed design drawings and related specifications of mechanical equipment, according to engineering sketches and design proposal specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes engineering sketches, specifications, and related data and drawings to determine design factors, such as size, shape, and arrangement of parts.
* Sketches rough layout of machine and computes angles, weights, surface areas, dimensions, radii, clearances, tolerances, leverages, and location of holes.
* Computes magnitude, direction, and point of application of tension, compression, and bending forces, and develops geometric shape of machine parts to accommodate operating loads.
* Drafts detailed multiview drawings of machine and subassemblies, including specifications for gear ratios, bearing loads, and direction of moving parts, using engineering data and standard references.
* Compiles and analyzes test data to determine effect of machine design on various factors, such as temperature, pressures, speed, horsepower, and fuel consumption.
* Modifies machine design to correct operating deficiencies or to reduce production problems.
* May measure machine and parts during production to ensure compliance with design specifications, using precision measuring instruments.
* May specialize in specific type of machine, such as air-cooled internal combustion engines, diesel engines, or machine tools.
* May use computer-assisted design/drafting equipment and software to develop designs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls laboratory compounding equipment enclosed in protective hot cell to prepare radioisotopes and other radioactive materials for use as tracers for biological, biomedical, physiological, and industrial purposes according to written procedures. Responsibilities include:
* Places specified amounts of chemicals into container to be irradiated at nuclear reactor or with other irradiation equipment.
* Secures vacuum pump head to outlet valve on special container to replace air with inert gas, and routes container to irradiation facility.
* Receives irradiated chemicals delivered in shielded cell.
* Moves manipulator to open container and transfer irradiated contents into glass vessel.
* Opens pneumatic valves or uses manipulators to add specified types and quantities of chemical reagents into glass vessel to produce radioactive product.
* Controls manipulators to pour liquids required to perform standard chemical analyses involving titration and filtration.
* Withdraws radioactive sample for transport to chemical laboratory for analysis.
* Fills shipping container inside cell with prescribed quantity of radioisotope material for shipment pending sample approval.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who develops detailed design drawings and related specifications of mechanical equipment, according to engineering sketches and design proposal specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes engineering sketches, specifications, and related data and drawings to determine design factors, such as size, shape, and arrangement of parts.
* Sketches rough layout of machine and computes angles, weights, surface areas, dimensions, radii, clearances, tolerances, leverages, and location of holes.
* Computes magnitude, direction, and point of application of tension, compression, and bending forces, and develops geometric shape of machine parts to accommodate operating loads.
* Drafts detailed multiview drawings of machine and subassemblies, including specifications for gear ratios, bearing loads, and direction of moving parts, using engineering data and standard references.
* Compiles and analyzes test data to determine effect of machine design on various factors, such as temperature, pressures, speed, horsepower, and fuel consumption.
* Modifies machine design to correct operating deficiencies or to reduce production problems.
* May measure machine and parts during production to ensure compliance with design specifications, using precision measuring instruments.
* May specialize in specific type of machine, such as air-cooled internal combustion engines, diesel engines, or machine tools.
* May use computer-assisted design/drafting equipment and software to develop designs.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who locates and marks sites selected for conducting geophysical prospecting activities concerned with locating subsurface earth formations likely to contain petroleum deposits.
* Makes precise determinations of elevations and records other characteristics of terrain.
* May obtain permits for prospecting from property owner.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who draws structural and mechanical features of ships, docks, and other marine structures and equipment, performing duties of drafter master title.
* Works from general design drawings and notes made by architect, marine or marine engineer.
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