- 업종: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
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- Company Profile:
A professional who replaces electric light fixture parts, such as bulbs, fluorescent tubes, and starters.
* Repairs fixture parts, such as switches and sockets, using handtools.
* Cleans fixtures and lamps, using soap, water and rags.
* Requisitions and keeps supply of bulbs, tubes, and replacement parts.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in detasseling corn on hybrid seed-corn farm. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines ears of corn in field to determine time of emergence of silk and its retention of accompanying pollen from tassels, and schedules work load.
* Assigns block and field code numbers and identifies and marks male and female rows of stalks.
* Examines fields to find areas of rapidly growing tassels and orders crew to remove tassels before emergence of silk from ears of corn.
* Assigns fields to supervisor, detasseling crew.
* Determines frequency of detasseling according to factors, such as temperature, moisture, time of season, and variety of corn grown.
* Inspects fields for undetasseled corn plants, estimates number of plants in field, and computes percent of tassels pulled by making sample counts of plants.
* Registers corn detasseling crew and issues identification badges.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in breaking and pulling tassels from corn plants. Respnsibilities include:
* Directs crewmembers in methods of pulling tassels and stems from corn plants.
* Designates rows of corn to be detasseled so that ears of corn will be pollenized by tassels of adjacent rows of corn.
* Records detasseling time and acreage covered.
* May direct workers in method of pulling corn suckers.
* May recruit crewmembers and transport them to fields.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plants, cultivates, and harvests one or more grain crops, such as barley, corn, rice, soybeans, and wheat, for cash sale. Respnsibilities include:
* Selects and buys type and amount of seed to be grown, taking into consideration local growing conditions and market demands.
* Operates equipment to plow, disk, harrow, and fertilize ground and to plant grain.
* Plans harvesting, considering ripeness and maturity of grain and weather conditions and operates grain-harvesting equipment.
* Sells grain or stores grain for future sale.
* Directs activities of workers.
* Hires and discharges workers.
* May be designated according to specific grain grown as Corn Grower; Rice Farmer; Soybean Grower; Wheat Grower.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives and operates farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest, and store grain crops, such as wheat, oats, rye, and corn. Respnsibilities include:
* Attaches farm implements, such as plow, disc, and drill, to tractor and drives tractor in fields to till soil and plant and cultivate grain, according to instructions.
* Tows harvesting equipment or drives and operates self-propelled combine to harvest crop.
* Performs variety of other duties, such as husking and shelling corn, lubricating and repairing farm machinery, and unloading grain onto conveyors to storage bins or elevators.
* May plan and schedule plowing, cultivating, and harvesting operations.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who drives and operates rice-farm machinery to prepare land, till soil, build ditches and levees, and harvest rice crop. Respnsibilities include:
* Hitches farm implements to tractor, and drives tractor along existing swaths and contours of rice field to plow and level fields and build or shore up ditches and levees of flood-irrigation system.
* Plants rice seed, or soaks rice seed in water and loads germinated seed onto airplane for aerial seeding of field.
* Loads fertilizer and weed killer into airplane, and stands at edge of field or positions markers indicating field pass by airplane to prevent overlap and gaps during aerial spraying.
* Drives tractor with harrow attachment over aerially seeded fields to cover seeds with dirt.
* Sets mowing controls and drives combine through fields to cut and thresh rice, stopping to adjust controls when amount of grain observed in chaff and amount of chaff observed in grain hoppers exceed allowable amounts.
* Transfers grain from combine hopper to grain truck, using transfer auger.
* Patrols irrigation ditches to detect obstructions and earthen deterioration, and removes debris and shores-up levees and ditches with shovel to ensure complete flooding of fields.
* Starts irrigation pumps, removes levee gates, and breaks apart levees to flood or drain field sections as directed.
* Performs miscellaneous duties, such as cleaning and lubricating farm equipment, loading and unloading trucks, and repairing buildings and fences.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who performs variety of manual tasks appropriate for grain crop being cultivated and harvested. Respnsibilities include:
* Cultivates and thins crops, using hoe.
* Removes undesirable and excess growth, such as tassels, suckers, and weeds, by hand.
* Carries supplies, such as bags and baling wires, to workers in fields.
* Clears irrigation ditches, using shovel.
* Loads and unloads trucks.
* Repairs fences and buildings, using carpenter's handtools.
* Cleans and lubricates farm machines.
* May be identified with task being performed, such as hoeing, detasseling, and picking; or with crop being worked, such as hybrid seed-corn, field beans and peas, and wheat.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in planting, cultivating, and harvesting vegetable crops. Respnsibilities include:
* Discusses seasonal crop-growing activities with management to determine sequence of operations and supplies, machinery, and work force needs.
* Assigns duties, such as tilling soil, planting, weeding, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and maintaining machines, to subordinates, and specifies machines, tools, and supplies to be used.
* Observes workers to detect inefficient and unsafe work procedures, and demonstrates approved procedures.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise workers engaged in mechanical repairs.
* May requisition machinery parts and record purchase data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in planting, cultivating, and harvesting vegetable crops. Respnsibilities include:
* Discusses seasonal crop-growing activities with management to determine sequence of operations and supplies, machinery, and work force needs.
* Assigns duties, such as tilling soil, planting, weeding, fertilizing, irrigating, harvesting, and maintaining machines, to subordinates, and specifies machines, tools, and supplies to be used.
* Observes workers to detect inefficient and unsafe work procedures, and demonstrates approved procedures.
* Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
* May supervise workers engaged in mechanical repairs.
* May requisition machinery parts and record purchase data.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who raises vegetables. Respnsibilities include:
* Determines kind and amount of crop to be grown, according to market conditions, weather, and size and location of farm.
* Selects and purchases seed, fertilizer, and farm machinery and arranges with buyers for sale of crop.
* Hires and directs farm workers engaged in planting, cultivating, and harvesting crop, such as beans, onions, and peas.
* Performs various duties of farm workers, depending on size and nature of farm, including setting up and operating farm machinery.
* May grow vegetables in greenhouse to produce out-of-season crops.
* May grow variety of vegetables and be designated Truck Farmer.
* May specialize in growing single vegetable and be designated by name of vegetable as Onion Farmer.
Industry:Professional careers
