- Industry: Government; Labor
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A professional who manages orchards. Responsibilities include:
* Directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisory personnel, orchard activities, such as orchard development, irrigation, chemical application, and harvesting to ensure that company production goals are met.
* Evaluates oral and written reports and observes operations to monitor progress of work and to detect and resolve problems.
* Determines and authorizes alternative procedures to accommodate variables, such as weather conditions, water supply, stage of crop or tree development, and new legislation.
* Coordinates orchard department activities with those of engineering, equipment maintenance, packing house, and other related departments.
* Analyzes financial statements and makes budget proposals.
* May initiate personnel actions, interpret company policy, and enforce safety regulations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who manages plant in which gasoline, lubricants, and petroleum fuels are stored and distributed in bulk lots, formulating policies in regard to storage, distribution, and other operating problems. Responsibilities include:
* Determines type and quantities of products according to consumer demand.
* Contacts refineries and petroleum canning plants to schedule shipment of products.
* Establishes operating procedures for incoming shipments, indicating storage tanks and warehouse facilities to be used.
* Formulates policies for distribution and sale of products to wholesale and retail outlets and consumers.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and coordinates activities of personnel engaged in extracting minerals, such as coal, ore, or rock, from underground or surface mines, pits, or quarries. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews data, such as maps, survey reports, and geological records, and confers with engineering, maintenance, and supervisory personnel to plan and direct mine development.
* Calculates mining or quarrying operational costs, estimates potential income, and instructs pit supervisor to abandon or open mine sections, pits, or other working areas.
* Studies maps and blueprints to determine location for haulageways, access roads, ventilation shafts, rail tracks, and conveyor systems.
* Studies land contours and rock formations, and specifies locations to install pillars, timbers, and roof bolts, and use of equipment for cutting, drilling, blasting and loading minerals.
* Reads mining laws and safety regulations, and issues directives to workers to ensure adherence to applicable rules and regulations.
* Reviews and consolidates records, such as ore grade, air quality, safety reports, and production records.
* Tours and inspects mine to detect and resolve production, equipment maintenance, safety, atmospheric, and personnel problems.
* Negotiates with workers, union personnel, and other parties to settle grievances.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities in petroleum company or geophysical exploration service concerned with providing transportation, supplies, housing, and other requirements for field party prospecting for petroleum reserves. Responsibilities include:
* Purchases and maintains flow of supplies to party.
* Arranges for housing and other living facilities.
* Discharges financial obligations.
* Arranges for and directs repair of automotive and drilling equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities in petroleum company or geophysical exploration service concerned with providing transportation, supplies, housing, and other requirements for field party prospecting for petroleum reserves. Responsibilities include:
* Purchases and maintains flow of supplies to party.
* Arranges for housing and other living facilities.
* Discharges financial obligations.
* Arranges for and directs repair of automotive and drilling equipment.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs activities concerned with exploratory drilling, and drilling oil wells and producing oil and gas from wells within one or more oil fields. Responsibilities include:
* Plans erection of drilling rigs, and installation and maintenance of equipment, such as pumping units and compressor stations.
* Directs technical processes, such as treatment of oil and gas to reduce moisture and sediment content, mud analysis, well logging, and formation testing.
* Determines procedures to resolve drilling problems, such as nonvertical bore holes and broken drilling tools.
* Formulates methods to control production of wells in accordance with proration regulations.
* Schedules dismantling and storing derricks and drilling equipment, cleaning wells, and servicing well equipment.
* Analyzes production reports, initiates personnel actions, and revises drilling and production procedures to control operating costs and production efficiency of oil field.
* Directs petroleum exploration parties engaged in drilling for samples (cores) of subsurface stratigraphy and in seismic prospecting.
* May be designated according to specialty as Superintendent, Oil-Field Drilling; Superintendent, Production.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of personnel, such as pit supervisor; section supervisor in one or more underground or surface mines, pits, or quarries. Responsibilities include:
* Directs opening of new surface cuts or pits or underground rooms and passageways, or construction and installation of equipment as designated by mine superintendent.
* Coordinates activities with those of safety engineer, mines and reports safety violations.
* Inspects mines and instructs supervisors to take necessary measures to improve production and working conditions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of supervisory personnel engaged in brewing operations. Responsibilities include:
* Recommends improvements in processing, sanitation, and safety procedures.
* Reviews and approves requests for minor repairs and maintenance.
* Assists brewing director in departmental operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who contracts to perform specified construction work in accordance with architect's plans, blueprints, codes, and other specifications. Responsibilities include:
* Estimates costs of materials, labor, and use of equipment required to fulfill provisions of contract and prepares bids.
* Confers with clients to negotiate terms of contract.
* Subcontracts specialized craft work, such as electrical, structural steel, concrete, and plumbing.
* Purchases material for construction.
* Supervises workers directly or through subordinate supervisors.
* May be designated according to specialty license or scope of principal activities as Contractor, General Engineering; Contractor, General Building.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who contracts to landscape grounds of houses, industrial plants, other buildings, or areas around highways. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with prospective client, studies landscape designs or drawings, and bills of materials to ascertain scope of landscaping work required, such as installation of lighting or sprinkler systems, erection of fences, concrete work, and types of trees, shrubs, or ornamental plants specified.
* Inspects grounds or area to determine equipment requirements for grading, tilling, or replacing top soil, and labor requirements to install sprinkler or lighting system, build fences, or perform concreting and planting work.
* Calculates labor, equipment, material, and overhead costs to determine minimum estimate or bid which will provide for margin of profit.
* Prepares and submits estimate for client or bid to industrial concern or governmental agency.
* Prepares contract for client to sign or signs contract if successful bidder.
* Plans landscaping functions and sequences of work at various sites to obtain optimum utilization of work force and equipment.
* Directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in performing landscaping functions in contractual agreement.
* Purchases and ensures that materials are on-site as needed.
* Inspects work at sites for compliance with terms and specifications of contract.
* May personally supervise workers.
* May participate in performing landscaping functions.
* May be required to possess state license as landscape contractor.
* May subcontract electrical installation or concrete work if not equipped to provide those services.
Industry:Professional careers
