- 업종: Government; Labor
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- Company Profile:
A professional who manages terminal operations of passenger or freight motor transportation company. Responsibilities include:
* Observes personnel performing duties and studies terminal operations reports on revenues derived, costs of operation, accidents, and frequency of personal or merchandise claims for losses or damages, to determine changes in work practices and procedures necessary to improve operations and reduce claims.
* Inspects terminal facilities for conformance to prescribed standards of safety and cleanliness, and for maintenance or repair required, and initiates requisitions for corrective actions.
* Enforces worker compliance with established safety rules and regulations and measures to protect safety of employees and customers and security of merchandise, property, and equipment.
* Reviews accident reports and takes actions prescribed by company policy.
* Evaluates worker performance and recommends or initiates personnel actions.
* May process or attempt to resolve employee grievances according to union contract procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and coordinates activities of workers in operation and maintenance of waterworks system to ensure adequate water supply for human consumption, industrial or agricultural use. Responsibilities include:
* Schedules and coordinates activities concerned with processing and distributing water.
* Assigns personnel to shifts to operate filtering and chemical treatment, coagulating and settling basins, and other plant facilities.
* Determines action to be taken in event of emergencies such as machine, equipment or power failure, or need to release dammed water to effect flood control.
* Prepares plans and specifications for new equipment or modification of existing equipment to effect increased operational capacity or efficiency.
* Reviews and evaluates water reports, records, logs, and graphs to confirm adequacy of present and projected water needs.
* Prepares budget estimates based on anticipated material and personnel needs.
* May prepare reports concerned with chemical and bacteriological analyses of water for administrative purposes and governmental agencies.
* May direct construction and maintenance of roads and communication lines used in operating water supply system.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who files applications with state and federal regulatory agencies, on behalf of certificated carrier or public utility and under power of attorney, to establish schedule of rates and charges. Responsibilities include:
* Receives rates compiled by clerical personnel.
* Analyzes and arranges tariff to cover one or more carrier or utility and receives power of attorney for any new coverage.
* Files with federal and state commissions new or revised tariff with new power of attorney.
* May participate in federal tariff proceedings.
* May assist attorneys preparing transportation or utility documents.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of personnel involved in transportation and handling of freight within geographic subdivision of railroad. Investigates train derailments or other accidents and directs clean-up operations. Directs activities of workers within railroad stations and terminals.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates, through shift supervisory personnel, activities concerned with testing, regulating, and maintaining telegraphic channels and circuits and associated terminal apparatus to ensure continuity of wire services. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews logs and reports and confers with shift supervisory personnel to ascertain data required for planning, testing, and regulating activities.
* Prepares work schedules assigning workers to shift supervisory personnel, considering workers' expertise in diagnosing and isolating circuit and apparatus malfunctions and knowledge and experience in adjusting and maintaining telegraphic circuits, channels, and apparatus, such as teleprinters, repeaters, and carriers.
* Authorizes requisitions for replacement parts, materials, and supplies.
* Prepares reports and records on testing and regulating activities, circuit and apparatus malfunctions, and resulting adjustment and maintenance functions.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who coordinates railroad traffic on specified section of line from centralized-traffic-control (CTC) unit that electrically activates track switches and signals. Responsibilities include:
* Reads train orders and schedules to familiarize self with scheduled runs, destination of trains, times of arrivals and departures, and priority of trains.
* Monitors CTC panelboard that indicates location of trains by lights that illuminate as train passes specified positions on run.
* Operates controls to activate track switches and traffic signals.
* Reroutes trains or signals locomotive engineer to stop train or change speed according to traffic conditions.
* Talks by telephone with crewmembers to relay changes in train orders and schedules, and to receive notification of emergency stops, delays, or accidents.
* Records time each train reaches specified point, time messages are given or received, and name of person giving or receiving message.
* May chart train movements on graph to estimate arrival times at specified points.
* May operate teletypewriter to transmit messages to freight offices or other points along line.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates, through supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in maintenance of transportation equipment in industrial establishment. Responsibilities include:
* Confers with department heads to arrange for equipment, such as motor vehicles, railroad rolling stock and equipment, and within-plant trackage systems, to be released from service for inspection, service, or repair.
* Schedules repairs and follows up on repairs made.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in allocation, regulation, and delivery of government controlled water in irrigation district, and in repair and maintenance of irrigation facilities. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews water-rights agreements, irrigation contracts, and departmental policies and regulations to determine equitable distribution of water.
* Schedules time and amount of water to be delivered to users in accordance with instructions.
* Inspects channels, siphons, tunnels, weirs, roads, bridges, buildings, and equipment for need of repair and maintenance.
* Assigns supervisory personnel to sanitation, maintenance and repair activities and inspects work for compliance with prescribed operational procedures and methods.
* Confers with water users to investigate and resolve complaints and public relations problems.
* Notifies water users of changes in policies and procedures.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who plans and directs activities of persons in wharfage department to ensure that fees assessed shipping companies, using municipal facilities, are in accordance with port tariff. Responsibilities include:
* Assigns responsibility to personnel for berthing, compiling dockage, wharfage, demurrage, and storage reports, and enforcing safety regulations.
* Reviews department reports to verify accuracy of assessments.
* Assigns berth, dock, and shed space for incoming ships.
* Prepares recommendations for assignment of facilities to companies on a continuous basis.
* Analyzes reports to determine efficiency of dock operations and recommends improvements.
* Contacts representatives of shipping companies to resolve problems pertaining to facilities and to maintain business relationship.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in makeup and breakup of trains and switching inbound and outbound traffic of railroad yard. Responsibilities include:
* Reviews train schedules and switching orders, and observes traffic movement in yard to determine which tracks can be made available to accommodate inbound and outbound traffic.
* Directs routing of inbound and outbound traffic to specific tracks.
* Reviews waybills or other shipping records indicating material to be loaded or unloaded, tonnage of cargo, type of carrier, and planned routes.
* Provides instruction concerning switching of cars, makeup and breakup of trains, and routing of inbound and outbound traffic to ensure safe and efficient conduct of yard activities.
Industry:Professional careers
