- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who conducts analyses of management and operational problems and formulates mathematical or simulation models of problem for solution by computers or other methods. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes problem in terms of management information and conceptualizes and defines problem.
* Studies information and selects plan from competitive proposals that affords maximum probability of profit or effectiveness in relation to cost or risk.
* Prepares model of problem in form of one or several equations that relates constants and variables, restrictions, alternatives, conflicting objectives and their numerical parameters.
* Defines data requirements and gathers and validates information applying judgment and statistical tests.
* Specifies manipulative or computational methods to be applied to model.
* Performs validation and testing of model to ensure adequacy, or determines need for reformulation.
* Prepares reports to management defining problem, evaluation, and possible solution.
* Evaluates implementation and effectiveness of research.
* May design, conduct, and evaluate experimental operational models where insufficient data exists to formulate model.
* May specialize in research and preparation of contract proposals specifying competence of organization to perform research, development, or production work.
* May develop and apply time and cost networks, such as Program Evaluation and Review Techniques, to plan and control large projects.
* May work in association with engineers, scientists, and management personnel in business, government, health, transportation, energy, manufacturing, environmental sciences or other technologies.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who collects and assists in evaluation of data obtained in testing petroleum fuels and lubricants under simulated operating conditions. Responsibilities include:
* Inspects engines after test runs have been made by test-engine operator, for wear, deposits, and defective parts, using microscope and precision weighing and measuring devices to obtain accurate data.
* Records findings and assists in analyzing data.
* Assists in dismantling and reassembling engines during test runs.
* May obtain and analyze samples of engine-exhaust gas.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who draws subsurface contours in rock formations from data obtained by geophysical prospecting party.
* Plots maps and diagrams from computations based on recordings of seismograph, gravity meter, magnetometer, and other petroleum prospecting instruments and from prospecting and surveying field notes.
* Performs other duties as described under drafter master title.
* May be designated according to method of prospecting as Drafter, Seismograph.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who conducts research on electronic phenomena, performing duties as described under research engineer master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who evaluates, coordinates, and oversees testing of nuclear reactor equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes test proposal to ensure that test is valid and feasible.
* Identifies and resolves problems, such as incompatibilities between proposal and nuclear test-reactor system.
* Coordinates technical and financial agreements involving feasibility, scope, purpose, and cost of project in nuclear test facility.
* Assists engineering personnel in interpretation of test language, mathematical formulas, and computer codes used in test.
* Writes operational instructions.
* Inspects general condition of nuclear test-reactor vessel and related systems.
* Verifies setup of nuclear test-reactor for compliance with specifications.
* Observes control room instrumentation to ensure that performance factors such as neutron power level, chemical composition of coolant, and reactor temperatures and pressures are carried out as prescribed.
* Evaluates and resolves operational problems.
* Coordinates activities directed toward removal of test specimens from reactors and subsequent chemical, metallurgical, or mechanical analysis.
* Compiles report of test results.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and designs development of land areas for projects, such as parks and other recreational facilities, airports, highways, and parkways, hospitals, schools, land subdivisions, and commercial, industrial, and residential sites. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with clients, engineering personnel, and architects on overall program.
* Compiles and analyzes data on such site conditions as geographic location; soil, vegetation, and rock features; drainage; and location of structures for preparation of environmental impact report and development of landscaping plans.
* Prepares site plans, working drawings, specifications, and cost estimates for land development, showing ground contours, vegetation, locations of structures, and such facilities as roads, walks, parking areas, fences, walls, and utilities, coordinating arrangement of existing and proposed land features and structures.
* Inspects construction work in progress to ensure compliance with landscape specifications, to approve quality of materials and work, and to advise client and construction personnel on landscape features.
* May be designated according to project as Highway-Landscape Architect; Park-Landscape Architect.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans, directs, and coordinates research activities of geophysical laboratory to develop new or improved instruments and methods for measuring physical characteristics of earth's crust which provide data for petroleum or mineral exploration. Responsibilities include:
* Consults with management and field and laboratory technical personnel to determine specific phases of geophysical prospecting in which improved processes might be evolved by study and experimentation.
* Plans research programs and initiates and directs experiments to improve prospecting procedures, explore possibilities of new theories, and develop improved or new instruments.
* Directs and coordinates activities concerned with designing, building, and field testing experimental instruments and maintenance and repair of laboratory and prospecting instruments.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who analyzes water in purification plant to control chemical processes which soften it or make it suitable for drinking. Responsibilities include:
* Analyzes samples of filtered water to ensure that quantities of solids left in suspension are below prescribed limits.
* Determines amounts of liquid chlorine to be used in chlorinators to destroy microbes and other harmful organisms, basing amounts on findings of microbiologist.
* Determines kinds and amounts of chemicals to be used in removing minerals, acids, salts, and other inorganic compounds from water to soften it.
* Tests samples extracted from various points in distribution system, such as mains, tanks, pumps, and outlets, to discover possible sources of water contamination.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drafts plans and drawings for layout, construction, and operation of oil fields, refineries, and pipeline systems from field notes, rough or detailed sketches, and specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Develops detail drawings for construction of equipment and structures, such as drilling derricks, compressor stations, gasoline plants, frame, steel, and masonry buildings, piping manifolds and pipeline systems, and for manufacture, fabrication, and assembly of machines and machine parts (architectural drafter; civil drafter; mechanical drafter).
* Prepares maps of pipeline systems and oil and gas locations, using field survey notes and aerial photographs (cartographic drafter).
* May draft topographical maps or develop maps to represent geological stratigraphy and locations of oil and gas deposits, using geological and geophysical prospecting and surveying data (geological drafter; geophysical drafter)
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans detailed instructions of operations in manufacture of newly designed shoes. Responsibilities include:
* Compiles manufacturing data from designer specifications, such as last to be used, size runs, ornamentation, saddle height, strap width, and color.
* Computes sizes of parts, such as inserts, linings, quarters, or vamps according to shoe size specifications or following $T3standard size system.
* $T1 Lists specifications, such as materials, stitching, and findings for each shoe size.
* May cut paper patterns of shoe design.
* May cut traced design into pattern of shoe parts.
Industry:Professional careers
