Job Descriptions & Definitions Administrative Administrative Services Managers Plan, organize, direct, control, or coordinate the supportive services department of a business, agency, or organization. Managers who spend less than 80 percent of their time in administrative services should be classified in another appropriate managerial category. Include Property Managers and Contract Administrators. Exclude Procurement Managers. Engineering, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Managers Plan, organize, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as architecture, electronic data processing, engineering, life sciences, physical sciences, statistics, and systems analysis. These persons spend the greatest portion of their time in managerial work for which a background consistent with that described for engineers, mathematicians, or natural scientists is required. Industrial Production Managers Plan, organize, direct, control, or coordinate the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing products in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications. Property & Real Estate Managers & Administrators Plan, organize, direct, control, or coordinate buying, selling, or leasing activities of real estate properties for clients or employer. Include managers of rented or leased housing units, buildings, or land (including rights?of?way). Exclude workers whose duties are not primarily managerial. Workers who are engaged primarily in direct buying, selling, or renting of real estate should be reported as Sales Workers. Business Services Accountants & Auditors Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records for the purpose of giving advice or preparing statements. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data. Architects, Except Landscape and Marine Plan and design structures, such as private residences, office buildings, theaters, factories, and other structural property. Budget Analysts Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Examine requests for budget revisions, recommend approval or denial, and draft correspondence. Analyze monthly department budgeting and accounting reports for the purpose of maintaining expenditure controls. Provide technical assistance to officials in the preparation of budgets. Cost Estimators Prepare cost estimates for product manufacturing, construction projects, or services, to aid management in bidding on or determining price of product or service. May specialize according to particular service performed or type of product manufactured. Economists, Including Market Research Analysts Economists: Conduct research, prepare reports, and formulate plans to aid in solution of economic problems arising from production and distribution of goods and services. Market Research Analysts: Research market conditions in local, regional, or national area to determine potential sales of a product or service; examine and analyze statistical data on past sales and wholesale or retail trade trends to forecast future sales trends. Human Resources, Training, & Labor Relations Specialists Conduct programs of recruitment, selection, placement, training, promotion, welfare, safety, compensation, or separation of employees. May specialize in specific areas such as labor?management relations, counseling, job analysis, position classification, training, or compensation. Exclude occupations in personnel research and in administration of testing and counseling programs for which a background in psychology is required. Exclude Employment Interviewers, Private or Public Employment Services. Lawyers Conduct criminal and civil lawsuits, draw up legal documents, advise clients as to legal rights, and practice other phases of law. May represent client in court or before quasi?judicial or administrative agencies of government. May specialize in a single area of law, such as patent law, corporate law, or criminal law. Loan Officers & Counselors Evaluate, authorize, or recommend approval of commercial, real estate, or credit loans. Advise borrowers on financial status and methods of payments. Include Mortgage Loan Officers or Agents, Collection Analysts, and Loan Servicing Officers. Management Analysts Review, analyze, and suggest improvements to business and organizational systems to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively. Conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplification and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals. Exclude Computer Systems Analysts. Procurement Buyers & Analysts Negotiate purchase contracts with suppliers, manage day-to-day sourcing strategy, assess market conditions and develop new sourcing strategies. Purchasing Managers Plan, organize, direct, control, or coordinate the activities of buyers, purchasing officers, and related workers involved in purchasing materials, products, or services. Include Wholesale or Retail Trade Merchandising Managers. Education Education Administrators Plan organize, direct, control, or coordinate the educational activities of colleges and universities; elementary, secondary, or postsecondary schools; vocational or technical schools; or training and instructional organizations (or programs) in private business or other agencies. Engineering Biological Scientists Research problems dealing with life processes. Include Biologists, Biochemists, Biophysicists, Pathologists, Bacteriologists, Toxicologists, and Zoologists. Exclude Medical and Agricultural Scientists. Chemical Engineers Design chemical plant equipment and devise processes for manufacturing chemicals and products such as gasoline, synthetic rubber, plastics, detergents, cement, paper, and pulp by applying principles and technology of chemistry, physics, and engineering. Civil Engineers, including Traffic Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of structures and facilities such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, water and sewage systems, and waste disposal units. Includes Traffic Engineers who specialize in studying vehicular and pedestrian traffic conditions. Chemists, except Biochemists Conduct qualitative and quantitative chemical analyses or chemical experiments in laboratories for quality or process control or to develop new products or knowledge. Electrical, Electronic, & Computer Engineers Design, develop, and test software, hardware or electrical and electronic equipment, components, or systems for consumer, commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. Industrial Engineers, except Safety Perform engineering duties in planning and overseeing the utilization of production facilities and personnel in department or other subdivision of industrial establishment. Plan equipment layout, workflow, and accident prevention measures to maintain efficient and safe utilization of plant facilities. Plan and oversee work, study, and training programs to promote efficient worker utilization. Develop and oversee quality control, inventory control, and production record systems. Exclude Industrial Product Safety Engineers. Mechanical Engineers Design, develop and test components or systems for consumer, commercial, industrial, military or scientific use. Metallurgists & Metallurgical, Ceramic, & Materials Engineers Metallurgists and Metallurgical Engineers: Investigate properties of metals and develop methods to produce new alloys, usages, and processes of extracting metals from their ores. Include Physical and Extractive Metallurgists. Ceramic Engineers: Conduct research, design machinery, and develop processing techniques related to the manufacturing of ceramic products. Materials Engineers: Evaluate, plan, and implement processes to develop new materials to meet product specifications, performance standards, and costs. Health Services Occupational Therapists Plan, organize, and participate in medically?oriented occupational programs in hospital or similar institution to rehabilitate patients who are physically or mentally ill. Optometrists Diagnose, manage, and treat conditions and diseases of the human eye and visual system. Examine eyes to determine visual efficiency and performance by use of instruments and observation. Prescribe corrective procedures. Physical Therapists Apply techniques and treatments that help relieve pain, increase the patient's strength, and decrease or prevent deformity and crippling. Physicians and Surgeons Doctors of medicine, who diagnose and treat mental or physical disorders. May specialize in one field such as surgery, obstetrics, or psychiatry. Recreational Therapists Plan,organize, and direct medically?approved recreation programs for patients in hospitals, nursing homes, or other institutions. Activities include sports, trips, dramatics, social activities, and arts and crafts. Registered Nurses Administer nursing care to ill or injured persons. Licensing or registration required. Include administrative, public health, industrial, private duty, and surgical nurses. Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists Examine and provide remedial services for persons with speech and hearing disorders. Perform research related to speech and language problems. Information Technologies Central Office & PBX Installers & Repairers Test, analyze, and repair telephone or telegraph circuits and equipment at a central office location using test meters and hand tools. Analyze and repair defects in communications equipment on customers' premises using circuit diagrams, polarity probes, meters, and a telephone test set. May install equipment. Computer Engineers Analyze data processing requirements to plan EDP system to provide system capabilities required for projected work loads. Plan layout and installation of new system or modification of existing system. May set up and control analog or hybrid computer systems to solve scientific and engineering problems. Computer Operators, except Peripheral Equipment Monitor and control electronic computers according to operating instructions to process business, scientific, engineering, and other data. Exclude operators who control peripheral equipment only. Systems Analysts/Computer Programmers Analyze business, scientific, and technical problems for application to electronic data processing systems or convert project specifications and statements of problems and procedures to detailed logical flow charts for coding into computer language. May develop and write computer programs to store, locate, and retrieve specific documents, data, and information. Exclude persons working primarily as Engineers, Mathematicians, or Scientists. Web Developers Design, develop, and layout of web to support business objective. Design and develop software that unites a corporate portal with internal/intranet applications. Define application integration requirements and partner with business IT Departments. Sales, Marketing, & Product Development Advertising Managers Coordinates and works with marketing departments to increase the profitability of company products and services through the utlitization of various advertising media. Customer Service Managers Ensures that customers receive the best sales service possible. Oversees customer service operations to ensure that customer claims and complaints are handled fairly and effectively. Field Sales Managers Recruits, trains and develops staff. Plans and directs sales efforts within an assigned area to achieve sales revenue and profit objectives. Assists Field Sales Representatives in securing important sales. Field Sales Representatives Promotes sales, introduces company programs and provides account service to assigned and potential customers. Has direct sales responsibility for medium to large customers in an assigned geographic area. National Accounts Representatives Calls on a specific national account to cultivate relationships, identify opportunities and increase sales. Coordinates the company's entire sales efforts toward this customer. Product Managers Develops and directs all marketing programs for a specific product or product line. Determines overall marketing objectives and recommends strategies, including advertising, packaging, pricing, expense budgets, and future development of a specific product. Skilled Manufacturing Blue Collar Worker Supervisors Directly supervise and coordinate activities of production and operating workers, such as testers, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, or plant and system operators. Managers and Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishments where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work, and may also engage in the same production work as the workers they supervise. Exclude work leaders who spend 20 percent or more of their time at tasks similar to those of employees under their supervision and report them in the occupations which are most closely related to their specific work duties. Electricians Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures. Insure that work is in accordance with relevant codes. May read blueprints. Include Protective Signal Installers and Repairers and Street Light Servicers. Machinists Set up and operate variety of machine tools. Fit and assemble parts to make or repair machine tools and maintain industrial machines, applying knowledge of mechanics, shop mathematics, metal properties, layout, and machining procedures. Study specifications, such as blueprints, sketch, or description of part to be replaced, and plan sequence of operations. Materials Management Purchasing/logistics management of direct materials; inventory investment control; vendor parts scheduling. Millwrights Install new machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, and other drawings. Dismantle and move machinery and heavy equipment when changes in plant layout are required. Use a variety of hand tools, hoists, dollies, and trucks. May construct foundations for machines. Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters Assemble, install, alter, and repair pipe systems (metal, plastic, ceramic, composition, etc.) that carry water, steam, air, or other liquids or gases. Programmers, Numerical Tool and Process Control Develop numerical control tape programs to control machining or processing of parts by automatic machine tools, equipment, or systems. Quality Engineer specifications for parts; audit/control production processes to meet customer requirements; work with vendors to assure performance to criteria. Tool and Die Makers Analyze specifications, lay out metal stock, set up and operate machine tools, and fit and assemble parts to make and repair dies, cutting tools, jigs, fixtures, gauges, and machinist's hand tools. Include Paper Die Maker and Die Sinker. Exclude Die Setters. JOB SEARCH || CAREER ASSISTANCE || COMPANIES ABOUT US || AREA LIFE || RETURN HOME © 2001 Cornerstone Alliance info@careermind.org