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A professional who plans and directs activities concerned with design and development of protective packaging containers. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes engineering drawings and specifications of product to determine physical characteristics of item, special-handling and safety requirements, and type of materials required for container.
* Consults with establishment's purchasing and production departments to determine costs and feasibility of producing proposed packaging.
* Develops or directs development of sketches, specifications, samples, and written analyses of proposed packaging in order to present design for approval.
* May confer with customers or sales representatives to draw up contracts.
* May advise employer or customers on efficient packing procedures, innovations in packaging materials, and utilization of sealing and fastening devices.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, coordinates, and directs quality control program designed to ensure continuous production of products consistent with established standards. Responsibilities include:
* Develops and analyzes statistical data and product specifications to determine present standards and establish proposed quality and reliability expectancy of finished product.
* Formulates and maintains quality control objectives and coordinates objectives with production procedures in cooperation with other plant managers to maximize product reliability and minimize costs.
* Directs, through intermediate personnel, workers engaged in inspection and testing activities to ensure continuous control over materials, facilities, and products.
* Plans, promotes, and organizes training activities related to product quality and reliability.
* May investigate and adjust customer complaints regarding quality.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who controls operation of particle accelerator used in research experiments involving properties of subatomic particles. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews experiment schedule to ascertain particle beam parameters specified by experimenter (scientist), such as energy, intensity, and repetition rate.
* Communicates with accelerator maintenance personnel to ensure readiness of support systems, such as vacuum, water cooling, and radiofrequency power source.
* Sets control panel switches, according to standard procedures, to route electric power from source and direct particle beam through injector unit.
* Turns panel controls and watches meters and panel lights to adjust beam steering units and direct beam to accelerator.
* Pushes console buttons in prescribed sequence to control beam path in accelerator.
* Adjusts controls to increase beam pulse rate, energy, and intensity to specified levels.
* Notifies experimenter in target control room when beam parameters meet specifications.
* Pushes control levers to steer beam to experimenter's target, as directed.
* Monitors readings at console during experiment to ensure accelerator systems meet specifications and notifies experimenter of condition.
* Alters beam parameters during experiment as directed.
* Ensures that maintenance workers vacate hazardous locations before operations.
* Records data in log relative to beam specifications, equipment settings used, and beam conditions obtained for future reference.
* Participates in maintenance and modification of systems as member of team.
* May be designated according to type of accelerator operated.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drafts detailed drawings of machinery and mechanical devices, indicating dimensions and tolerances, fasteners and joining requirements, and other engineering data. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews rough sketches and engineering specifications received from engineer or architect.
* Drafts multiple-view assembly, subassembly, and layout drawings as required for manufacture and repair of machines and equipment.
* Performs other duties as described under drafter master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drafts full-size or scale detail drawings of either auto-body or chassis parts and assemblies from specifications, master drawings, layouts, models, prototypes, sketches, or verbal instructions, for engineering and manufacturing purposes (drafter master title), applying knowledge of auto-body or chassis structure and methods of manufacture and assembly.
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 applies electrical theory and related knowledge to test and modify developmental or operational electrical machinery and electrical control equipment and circuitry in industrial or commercial plants and laboratories. Responsibilities include:
* Assembles and tests experimental motor-control devices, switch panels, transformers, generator windings, solenoids, and other electrical equipment and components according to engineering data and knowledge of electrical principles.
* Modifies electrical prototypes to correct functional deviations under direction of electrical engineer.
* Diagnoses cause of electrical or mechanical malfunction or failure of operational equipment and performs preventative and corrective maintenance.
* Develops wiring diagrams, layout drawings, and engineering specifications for system or equipment modifications or expansion, and directs personnel performing routine installation and maintenance duties.
* Plans, directs, and records periodic electrical testing, and recommends or initiates modification or replacement of equipment which fails to meet acceptable operating standards.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who examines detail, layout, and master drawings of either auto-body or chassis parts, assemblies, and systems, for practicality of design, accuracy of mathematical calculations, dimensional accuracy, projection, and conformity to specifications and standards, using computerized work aids.
* Applies knowledge of auto-body and chassis design, methods of manufacture and assembly, and drafting techniques and procedures.
* Discusses necessary changes with staff members and coordinates corrections.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who designs and directs installation of illuminating equipment and systems for buildings, plants, streets, stadia, tunnels, and outdoor displays. Responsibilities include:
* Studies lighting requirements of client to determine lighting equipment and arrangement of lamps that will provide optimum illumination with economy of installation and operation.
* Designs lamps of required light intensity and output, light control reflectors and lenses, and lamp arrangement required to meet illuminating standards.
* Plans and prepares drawings for installation of lighting system in accordance with client's specifications and municipal codes.
* Directs installation of system to ensure conformance with engineering specifications and compliance with electrical codes.
* May be designated according to type or location of illumination system designed and installed as Building-Illuminating Engineer; Industrial-Illuminating Engineer; Outdoor-Illuminating Engineer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who surveys marine vessels and watercraft, such as ships, boats, tankers, and dredges, to ascertain condition of hull, machinery, equipment, and equipage, and to determine repairs required for vessel to meet requirements for insuring. Responsibilities include:
* Examines underwater section of hull while ship is drydocked to ascertain conditions that indicate repairs are required.
* Takes readings on tailshaft and tailshaft bearings.
* Inspects condition of propellers, rudders, and sea valves.
* Inspects above waterline section of ship, such as hatchways, freeing ports, ventilators, bulkheads, fittings, and attachments, for compliance with operating standards, and compliance with standards for protection of crew.
* Observes operating tests on machinery and equipment and inspects opened up machinery for interior condition.
* Observes testing of cargo gear for compliance with testing standards and issues or endorses certificate for gear tested.
* Prepares reports on types of surveys conducted, recommended actions and repairs, or conditions remedied.
* Submits report to client.
Industry:Professional careers
