Job Definition: Job Description: Operate or tend wood-sawing machines, such as circular saws, band saws, multiple blade sawing machines, scroll saws, ripsaws, equalizer saws, power saws, and crozer machines. Duties include: sawing logs to specifications; cutting lumber to specified dimensions; sawing curved or irregular designs; trimming edges and removing defects from lumber; or cutting grooves,
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Job Definition: Job Description: Stand watch to look for obstructions in path of vessel, measure water depth, turn wheel on bridge, or use emergency equipment as directed by captain, mate, or pilot. Break out, rig, overhaul, and store cargo-handling gear, stationary rigging, and running gear. Perform a variety of maintenance tasks to preserve the painted
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Job Definition: Job Description: Lay, repair, and maintain track for standard or narrow-gauge railroad equipment used in regular railroad service or in plant yards, quarries, sand and gravel pits, and mines. Includes ballast cleaning machine operators and road bed tamping machine operators. Duties and Tasks: 1) Adjust controls of machines that spread, shape, raise, level,
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Job Definition: Job Description: Perform a variety of activities such as coupling railcars and operating railroad track switches in railroad yard to facilitate the movement of rail cars within the yard. Duties and Tasks: 1) Throws track switches to route cars to different sections of yard. 2) Receives oral or written instructions indicating which cars
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Job Definition: Job Description: Inspect railroad equipment, roadbed, and track to ensure safe transport of people or cargo. Duties and Tasks: 1) Inspects signals and track wiring to determine continuity of electrical connections. 2) Examines roadbed, switches, fishplates, rails, and ties to detect damage or wear. 3) Replaces defective brake rod pins and tightens safety
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Job Definition: Job Description: Conductors coordinate activities of train crew on passenger or freight train. Coordinate activities of switch-engine crew within yard of railroad, industrial plant, or similar location. Yardmasters coordinate activities of workers engaged in railroad traffic operations, such as the makeup or breakup of trains, yard switching, and review train schedules and switching
Job Definition: Job Description: Operate railroad track switches. Couple or uncouple rolling stock to make up or break up trains. Signal engineers by hand or flagging. May inspect couplings, air hoses, journal boxes, and hand brakes. Duties and Tasks: 1) Inspect tracks, cars, and engines for defects and to determine service needs, sending engines and
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Job Definition: Job Description: Drive switching or other locomotive or dinkey engines within railroad yard, industrial plant, quarry, construction project, or similar location. Duties and Tasks: 1) Confer with conductors and other workers via radio-telephones or computers to exchange switching information. 2) Drive engines within railroad yards or other establishments to couple, uncouple, or switch
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Job Definition: Job Description: Take X-rays and CAT scans or administer nonradioactive materials into patient’s blood stream for diagnostic purposes. Includes technologists who specialize in other modalities, such as computed tomography, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance. Duties and Tasks: 1) Review and evaluate developed x-rays, video tape, or computer generated information to determine if images are
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Job Definition: This unit group covers health professionals not classified elsewhere in Sub-major Group 22: Health Professionals. For instance, the group includes occupations such as podiatrist, occupational therapist, recreational therapist, chiropractor, osteopath and other professionals providing diagnostic, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services. Job Description: Maintain and use equipment and supplies necessary to demonstrate portions
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