- Domeniu: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who contacts vendors and shippers to ensure that merchandise, supplies, and equipment are forwarded on specified shipping date. Respnsibilities include:
* Contacts vendor by mail, phone, or visit to verify shipment of goods on specified date.
* Communicates with transportation company to preclude delays in transit.
* May arrange for distribution of materials upon arrival.
* May contact vendors to requisition materials.
* May inspect products for quality and quantity to ensure adherence to specifications.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives express consignments (parcels) from customers, computes charges, routes consignment according to destination, and releases consignments to consignee. Respnsibilities include:
* Weighs parcels received from customer and refers to rate chart to compute charges.
* Writes receipts and bill of charges, accepts payment, or routes parcel c.o.d.
* Sorts parcels and places them in bins or sacks according to destination.
* Releases parcels to consignee upon presentation of written notice or other identification.
* Answers inquiries regarding shipping policies.
* May be designated according to type of transportation used as Motor-Express Clerk; Rail-Express Clerk.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who classifies, catalogs, and maintains library of motion picture films, photographic slides, and video and audio tapes. Respnsibilities include:
* Classifies and catalogs items according to contents and purpose and prepares index cards for file reference.
* Maintains records of items received, stored, issued, and returned.
* Stores items and records according to classification and catalog number.
* Delivers and retrieves items to and from departments by hand or push cart.
* May prepare, store, and retrieve classification and catalog information, lecture notes, or other documents related to documents stored, using computer.
* May be designated according to items stored as Audio-Tape Librarian; Film Librarian (motion picture).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who allocates space on auction warehouse floor and gives directions to workers placing tobacco in warehouse. Respnsibilities include:
* Ascertains quality of tobacco offered for sale and assigns floor space according to number of baskets.
* Shows customers space reserved for their tobacco.
* Directs workers placing tobacco in assigned spaces, and in keeping tobacco in rows.
* May assist workers in placing tobacco on warehouse floor.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives and returns to owner articles lost in stores, public conveyances, or buildings, and keeps records of articles lost, found, and claimed. Respnsibilities include:
* Inspects articles and telephones or sends letters to owners when identification is known.
* Tags and places articles in drawers, shelves, racks, or safe, according to type of article and where it was found.
* Discusses lost articles by telephone or in person, and returns articles to owners upon positive identification.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who stores and issues explosive materials, such as blasting powder, ammonium nitrate, dynamite, fireworks, and munitions, in magazine of explosives or munitions factory, mine, arsenal, or construction project. Respnsibilities include:
* Records nature and quantity of materials received, shipped, or issued to workers.
* Enforces observance of safety regulations by persons entering magazine.
* May direct workers engaged in moving and loading explosives into trucks or boxcars.
* May thaw frozen explosives.
* May fill bags, using loading machine.
* May mix fuel oil with powder to increase combustibility.
* May assemble fuses and detonators.
* May insert detonators into sticks of explosives and attach fuse or electric wire to prepare primer charges.
* May pack and unpack explosives, fireworks, and munitions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives, stores, and issues spare and replacement parts, equipment, and expendable items used in repair or maintenance shop.
* Takes inventory of parts and equipment and maintains inventory records.
* May drive truck to pick up incoming stock or to pick up and deliver parts to units in other buildings or locations.
* May sell auto parts to customers.
* May be designated according to type of parts issued as Parts Clerk, Automobile Repair; Parts Clerk, Plant Maintenance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects consignments of crude or refined petroleum to certify that consignments conform to contract specifications. Respnsibilities include:
* Lowers container into tank and withdraws samples from top, middle, and bottom of tank.
* Pours samples into bottles and routes samples to laboratory for analysis.
* Examines petroleum during transfer into receiving tank for discoloration or water.
* Sounds shore tank with steel tape and consults calibration tables to determine quantity of consignment.
* Writes report of findings.
* May conduct laboratory analyses.
* May calibrate tanks, meters, and tank cars.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who selects lens blanks and frames for production of eyeglasses, according to prescription specifications, and keeps stock inventory at specified level. Respnsibilities include:
* Reads prescription to determine specifications, such as lens power and base curve and frame style and color.
* Selects lens blanks and frames from stock and routes them with prescription to production section.
* Requisitions lens blanks and eyeglass frames and communicates by letter and telephone with suppliers to keep stock at specified level.
* May work with only lenses or frames and be designated Prescription Clerk, Frames (optical goods); Prescription Clerk, Lenses (optical goods).
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who receives, stores, records, and issues money, valuables, and other articles seized as evidence, removed from prisoner, or recovered, lost, or stolen property. Respnsibilities include:
* Prepares record of articles and valuables received, including description of article, name of owner (if known), name of police officer from whom received, and reason for retention.
* Issues property being retained as evidence to officer at time of trial upon receipt of authorization.
* Telephones owners or mails letters to notify owners to claim property, and releases lost or stolen property to owners upon proof of ownership.
* Returns property to released prisoners.
* Prepares list of articles required by law to be destroyed and destroys narcotics and drugs (upon authorization) in presence of official witnesses.
* Sends alcoholic beverages to state liquor commission.
* Lists and sends unclaimed or confiscated money to auditor's office.
* Sends unclaimed and illegal weapons for official destruction.
* Prepares inventory of unclaimed articles for possible sale at auction or donation to charitable organization.
Industry:Professional careers
