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A professional who directs or participates in planning, designing, or reviewing plans for erection of structures requiring stress analysis. Responsibilities include:
* Designs structure to meet estimated load requirements, computing size, shape, strength, and type of structural members, or performs structural analysis of plans and structures prepared by private engineers.
* May inspect existing projects and recommend repair and replacement of defective members or rebuilding of entire structure.
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A professional who studies distribution, disposition, and development of waters of land areas, including form and intensity of precipitation, and modes of return to ocean and atmosphere. Responsibilities include:
* Maps and charts water flow and disposition of sediment.
* Measures changes in water volume due to evaporation and melting of snow.
* Studies storm occurrences and nature and movement of glaciers, and determines rate of ground absorption and ultimate disposition of water.
* Evaluates data obtained in reference to such problems as flood and drought forecasting, soil and water conservation programs, and planning water supply, water power, flood control, drainage, irrigation, crop production, and inland navigation projects.
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A professional who designs optical systems with specific characteristics to fit within specified physical limits of precision optical instruments, such as still- and motion-picture cameras, lens systems, telescopes, and viewing and display devices. Responsibilities include:
* Determines specifications for operations and makes adjustments to calibrate and obtain specified operational performance.
* Determines proper operation of optical system and makes adjustments to perfect system.
* Designs mounts for components to hold them in proper planes in relation to each other and instrument in which they will be used.
* Designs inspection instruments to test optical systems for defects, such as aberrations and deviations.
* May work with electrical and mechanical engineering staff to develop overall design of optical system.
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A professional who directs and coordinates radio or television station activities concerned with acquisition, installation, and maintenance, or with modification of studio broadcasting equipment. Responsibilities include:
* Evaluates studio needs for new broadcasting equipment to determine if acquisition would be justified considering such factors as cost, availability, and improvement gain in technical performance, and authorizes acquisition according to evaluation.
* Directs activities concerned with layout and design of electrical circuitry for acquired equipment to ensure conformance with codes and safety regulations.
* Establishes procedures for operation and maintenance of studio, remote control, and microwave transmission equipment.
* Inspects, and directs testing and maintenance of studio, remote, and airborne broadcasting equipment to ensure operational performance meets company standards and rules and regulations of Federal Communications Commission.
* Develops modification plans for existing broadcasting equipment to improve technical performance.
* Directs modification and testing of equipment to ensure operational performance meets specified standards.
* Prepares repair and maintenance schedules for studio, remote, and airborne broadcasting equipment to prevent interruption of broadcasts.
* Contacts telephone company personnel to ensure leased landlines or microwave facilities are operative and available for network broadcasting (commercial engineer).
* Prepares annual budget for engineering department and controls expenditures within budget limitations.
* May direct and coordinate activities of transmitter personnel (transmitter engineer-in-charge).
* May operate and maintain transmitter equipment to broadcast radio and television programs (transmitter operator).
* May inspect and direct repair and maintenance of unmanned stations.
* Must hold First Class Radiotelephone License issued by FCC
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A professional who coordinates research activities to develop new and improved methods of drilling wells and producing oil or gas. Responsibilities include:
* Directs, through subordinate engineering personnel, planning and progress of experimental projects in drilling and production operations, such as projects investigating composition of drilling mud, recovery of natural gasoline from crude oil and gas solutions, or dehydration of crude petroleum.
* Assists chief petroleum engineer in solution of technical operating problems.
* May direct research activities in geochemical or other petroleum prospecting methods.
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A professional who investigates and collects information concerning oil well drilling operations, geological and geophysical prospecting, and land and lease contracts from other oil fields, the press, lease brokers, individuals, and organizations leading to possible discovery of new oil fields. Responsibilities include:
* Interviews individuals and observes field operations to obtain data, such as locations and depths of oil or gas wells or exploratory boreholes or of producing wells, subsurface and geophysical survey results, methods of well completion, and volume of oil or gas flow.
* Collects rock samples and cuttings and samples of oil or gas from wells.
* Inspects cores and notes recurrence of specific strata in various boreholes to confirm or disprove concepts of stratigraphy.
* Obtains information on purpose and locations of lease purchases, royalty contracts, and other agreements made by competitive companies.
* Observations may be confined to prospecting or to include drilling and producing activities.
* Must have knowledge of production engineering, oil field practices, and geology.
* May sketch subsurface contours of geological formations as indicated by data obtained.
* May negotiate with landowners for drilling leases, ore royalties, and land options (lease buyer)
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A professional who plans and coordinates engineering activities to develop and apply standardized design criteria and production requirements for parts and equipment used in aircraft and aerospace vehicles. Responsibilities include:
* Establishes and maintains liaison between engineering and other departments to formulate and apply design criteria and production requirements for proposed products.
* Analyzes product design data to determine conformance to established design selection criteria, use of standardized parts and equipment, and design-to-cost ratio.
* Approves initial design or recommends modifications based on producibility, cost, and component technology factors.
* Coordinates testing of new parts and equipment, evaluates test results, and approves or rejects usage of parts and equipment based on test results.
* Evaluates and approves selection of vendors.
* Initiates and provides technical direction for research and development programs to enhance production methods, improve parts and equipment technology, and reduce costs.
* Develops methods and programs to predict, track, and report production costs during design development.
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A professional who measures resistance of earth formations to electrical charges, using electrical apparatus to obtain data for locating rock strata favorable to further petroleum exploration activities. Responsibilities include:
* Transports electrical equipment and instruments to designated locations, and directs and assists in laying out and connecting cables, electrodes, instrument panels, and other electrical equipment.
* Adjusts electrical instruments to eliminate electrical interferences from earth currents or weather conditions.
* Opens and closes circuits to send electrical current through electrodes into earth.
* Reads dials and records data of millivoltmeter readings at various receptor points along cable to detect loss of potential due to resistance of earth formations.
* Diagnoses cause of malfunctioning of instruments and cables and makes repairs.
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A professional who drafts detailed drawings of parts of machines or structures from rough or general design drawings. Responsibilities include:
* Shows dimensions, material to be used, and other information necessary to make detailed drawing clear and complete.
* Makes tracing of finished drawing on semitransparent paper from which blueprints can be made.
* Performs other duties as described under drafter master title.
* May specialize in preparing detail drawings for specific type of machine, structure, or product.
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A professional who originates, controls, and develops flotation, smelting, electrolytic, and other processes used in winning metals from their ores, for producing iron and steel, or for refining gold, silver, zinc, copper, and other metals. Responsibilities include:
* Studies ore reduction problems to determine most efficient methods of producing metals commercially.
* Controls temperature adjustments, charge mixtures, and other variables in blast-furnace operations and steel-melting furnaces to obtain pig iron and steel of specified metallurgical characteristics and qualities.
* Investigates methods of improving metallurgical processes, as in the reduction of alumina by electrolytic methods to produce aluminum, the distillation of molten ore to purify zinc, or selective oxidation methods to extract lead, nickel, mercury, and other nonferrous metals from their ores.
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