Job Descriptions

Waiter/Waitress, Room Service Job

1. Serves meals to guests in their rooms. 2. Carries silverware, linen, and food on tray or uses cart. 3. Sets up table and serves food from cart. 4. Removes equipment from rooms.





Waiter/Waitress, Take Out Job

1. Serves customers at take out counter of restaurant or lunchroom: Writes items ordered on order tickets, totals orders, passes orders to cook, and gives ticket stubs to customers to identify filled orders. 2. Wraps menu items, such as sandwiches, hot entrees, and desserts. 3. Fills containers with requested beverages, …

Waiter/Waitress, Head Job

1. Supervises and coordinates activities of dining-room employees engaged in providing courteous and rapid service to diners: Greets guests and escorts them to tables. 2. Schedules dining reservations. 3. Arranges parties for patrons. 4. Adjusts complaints regarding food or service. 5. Hires and trains dining-room employees. 6. Notifies payroll department …

Waiter/Waitress, Informal Job

1. Serves food to patrons at counters and tables of coffeeshops, lunchrooms, and other dining establishments where food service is informal: Presents menu, answers questions, and makes suggestions regarding food and service. 2. Writes order on check or memorizes it. 3. Relays order to kitchen and serves courses from kitchen …

Waiter/Waitress, Dining Car Job

1. Serves passengers in railroad dining car: Presents menu to patrons, makes suggestions, and answers questions regarding food and service. 2. Takes order from patron and presents it to COOK, RAILROAD. 3. Serves food to passenger. 4. Computes cost of meal. 5. Accepts money from patron and returns change. 6. …

Waiter/Waitress, Formal Job

1. Serves meals to patrons according to established rules of etiquette, working in formal setting: Presents menu to diner, suggesting dinner courses, appropriate wines, and answering questions regarding food preparation. 2. Writes order on check or memorizes it. 3. Relays order to kitchen and serves courses from kitchen and service …

Waiter/Waitress, Captain Job

1. Supervises activities of workers in section of dining room: Receives guests and conducts them to tables. 2. Describes or suggests food courses and appropriate wines. 3. When serving banquets, may be designated Banquet Captain.

Waiter/Waitress, Club Job

1. Attends members in private club by performing duties, such as the following: Takes orders for food and beverages and serves members in dining room or clubrooms. 2. Brings cards, chips, amusement devices, candies, tobacco, and other articles as requested. 3. Places orders for clubroom reservation. 4. Delivers telephone, telegraph, …

Waiter/Waitress, Banquet, Head Job

1. Plans details for banquets, receptions, and other social functions. 2. Hires extra help, directs setting up of tables and decorations, and supervises WAITER/WAITRESS, FORMAL.

Waiter/Waitress, Bar Job

1. Serves beverages to patrons seated at tables in bar or cocktail lounge. 2. Computes bill and accepts payment. 3. May take orders for and serve light meals and hors d’oeuvres. 4. May request identification from customers when legal age is questioned. 5. When working in establishment serving only beer …

Waiter/Waitress, Buffet Job

1. Serves or assists diners to serve themselves at buffet or smorgasbord table. 2. Replenishes supplies of food and tableware. 3. May carry trays of food to individual tables for diners.

Waistline Joiner, Overlock Job

1. Operates overlock sewing machine equipped with edgecutter and shirring mechanism to join bodice and skirt of garment and shirr fabric at waistline: Positions bodice and skirt on machine bed, operates machine to join parts and cut away excess fabric, and presses knee lever to shirr edge of skirt or …

Waiter/Waitress Job

1. Serves passengers in ships’ dining rooms: Obtains linen, silver, glassware, and china to set tables. 2. Arranges settings on tables. 3. Provides dining room service to passengers. 4. Maintains assigned station, including table pieces, side stands, and chairs. 5. May be designated according to class of passengers served as …

Waistline Joiner, Lockstitch Job

1. Operates lockstitch sewing machine to join bodice and skirt of garment: Aligns edges of bodice and skirt, matching seams, notches, or pleats, and guides parts under needle to sew seam. 2. Performs other duties as described under SEWING-MACHINE OPERATOR, REGULAR EQUIPMENT Master Title.

Waistband Setter, Lockstitch Job

1. Operates lockstitch sewing machine to sew waistband to upper edge of pants or skirt. 2. Positions waistband on upper edge of garment, aligning markings, and guides parts under needle to attach waistband to garment. 3. Performs other duties as described under SEWING-MACHINE OPERATOR, REGULAR EQUIPMENT Master Title.

Wader-Boot-Top Assembler Job

1. Cements precut rubber and rubberized fabric parts to fabricate wader boot tops and boot liners for rubber boots: Selects parts according to worksheet and lays them on workbench for cementing. 2. Brushes rubber cement on edges to be joined or brushes benzine over previously applied adhesive to restore tackiness, …

Wad-Printing-Machine Operator Job

1. Tends automatic machines that print identifying data on top wad used in shotgun shells: Fills ink reservoir. 2. Selects printing rollers or die set according to work order and installs them in machine, using handtools. 3. Scoops blank wads from supply trough onto grooved board and shakes board to …

Wafer Abrading Machine Tender Job

1. Tends abrading machines that roughen surface of semiconductor wafers to distinguish front from back: Adjusts controls to set speed, time, and pressure of abrading belts according to specifications. 2. Loads container of wafers into abrading machine and starts machine that automatically abrades surface of wafer. 3. Removes abraded wafers …

Wafer Breaker, Semiconductors Job

1. Breaks semiconductor wafers into individual dies, using equipment and handtools: Places semiconductor wafer on pad, using tweezers. 2. Taps wafer, using pencil tip, awl, or tweezers to break wafer into quarters. 3. Places semiconductor wafer quarter on plastic square. 4. Presses semiconductor wafer, using roller or air pressure equipment, …

Wafer Cleaner Job

1. Tends equipment that cleans surface of semiconductor wafers after slicing or polishing: Reviews work orders to determine processing steps. 2. Sets temperature controls on automatic chemical cleaning machine or sinks of chemical cleaning station. 3. Places containers of semiconductor wafers into drum of cleaning machine or into heated sinks …

Wafer Mounter Job

1. Tends press that mounts semiconductor wafers in templates for polishing: Cleans templates, using cleaning solution and brush or towel, or tends machine that automatically cleans templates. 2. Places cushion in template depressions and places wafers on cushion, or places wafers on waxed template. 3. Positions templates in press and …

Wafer-Line Worker Job

1. Performs any combination of following tasks to assemble wafer-type dry cell batteries: Removes stack of cells from machine and inspects and counts cells. 2. Positions stack in handpress and pulls lever to compress stack to form battery. 3. Wraps battery in rubberized wrapping and places wrapped battery on hot …

Wafer-Machine Operator Job

1. Operates machines to fabricate wafer-type dry cells: Loads feeding mechanism with materials, such as plastic film, paper, zinc and carbon plates, and silver wax. 2. Starts machine and equipment that cuts piece of plastic film for base of cell, positions and presses zinc plate on plastic film, cuts and …

Vulcanized-Fiber-Unit Operator Job

1. Tends machine that compresses and vulcanizes layers of paper or related materials into homogeneous sheets: Reads job order to determine type and thickness of fiber sheets to be made. 2. Inserts metal shafts through core of paper roll, and mounts roll onto machine, using hoist. 3. Tightens holding collars …

Vulcanizer Job

1. Tends machine that vulcanizes synthetic composition outsoles to leather or fabric uppers: Positions upper on heated metal last. 2. Seats precut outsole in cavity of mold and pulls lever to invert last. 3. Starts machine that lowers lasted upper into die cavity and vulcanizes outsole to upper.