Job Descriptions

Graphic Designer Job

1. Designs art and copy layouts for material to be presented by visual communications media such as books, magazines, newspapers, television, and packaging: Studies illustrations and photographs to plan presentation of material, product, or service. 2. Determines size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, selects style and size of …





Graphite Pan-Drier Tender Job

1. Tends vacuum-filter dewaterer and gas-fired pan-drier to prepare flake graphite from mill slurry: Starts pumps, filter, and drag mechanism on pan-drier. 2. Lights gas burners on drier with torch and turns valves to regulate temperature as judged by color of flame. 3. Turns valves to admit graphite slurry into …

Grated-Cheese Maker Job

1. Tends grinding, drying, and cooling equipment to make grated cheese: Starts grater, drying drums or drying chamber, heater, blowers, cooling cones, and hammer mill. 2. Dumps cheese blocks into feedbox of grater, and starts ram that pushes cheese against grating wheel. 3. Tests sample of grated cheese for moisture …

Grant Coordinator Job

1. Develops and coordinates grant-funded programs for agencies, institutions, local government, or units of local government, such as school systems or metropolitan police departments: Reviews literature dealing with funds available through grants from governmental agencies and private foundations to determine feasibility of developing programs to supplement local annual budget allocations. …

Granulating-Machine Operator Job

1. Tends machine that cuts tobacco into granular form and screens dust and coarse particles from granulated tobacco: Starts conveyor, cutting knives, fans, and screens. 2. Shovels tobacco into hopper and shoves tobacco between feed rolls of machine that carry tobacco under cutting knives. 3. Observes screening process and removes …

Granulator Operator Job

1. Tends rotary-type kiln that dries sugar to specified moisture content: Starts equipment, such as scrolls, and conveyors. 2. Turns valve to admit steam into heating coils, and starts fan that blows air around steam coils in drum. 3. Opens gate on feed scroll to admit sugar to drum. 4. …

Granulator Tender Job

1. Tends granulator machine that expands blast-furnace slag for use as building or insulating material: Signals OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATOR to position iron runners that carry slag from furnace to granulator machine. 2. Opens gate of furnace to allow slag from furnace to flow onto runners, and turns water, air, and …

Grain-Wafer-Machine Operator Job

1. Tends machines that soak, form, and bake whole grains of wheat or rice into wafers: Dumps sacks of grain into soaking tank. 2. Turns valve to regulate flow of water into tank, and starts tank revolving. 3. Turns off water after specified soaking period and starts air blower to …

Grainer, Machine Job

1. Feeds metal or simulated wood panels, sheets, or strips into machine that prints lines resembling natural wood grain. 2. Holds or moves irregularly shaped pieces against printing roller to impart grainlike appearance. 3. Stacks grained pieces for further processing or assembly into articles, such as television cabinets, automobile dashboards, …

Graining-Press Operator Job

1. Sets up and operates hydraulic press to extrude blocks of smokeless powder into strands preparatory to cutting, drying, and bagging: Attaches specified dies to compression cylinder of press with thumbscrews or clamps. 2. Inserts block in compression cylinder and locks cover in place with thumbscrews. 3. Turns ram control …

Grain-Drier Operator Job

1. Tends grain-drying machines that reduce moisture content of grain: Reviews data concerning moisture content of grain to be dried. 2. Moves levers to regulate gate on feed hopper and flow of grain through drier. 3. Observes temperature recorders and turns valves to regulate flow of steam pressure or gas …

Grain Elevator Clerk Job

1. Records data pertaining to receiving, storing, and shipping of grain at grain elevators: Examines bin slips or track list to determine type, destination, and estimated weight of railroad car. 2. Signals workers to dump or load cars, using bell, light, or telephone. 3. Pulls lever to open slide gate …

Grain Mixer Job

1. Tends equipment to mix grain for milling into blended flour: Starts belt conveyor and adjusts valve controls on automatic feeders to regulate proportions of specified grades of grain flowing from storage tanks onto conveyor. 2. Starts conveyors to transfer grain to milling department. 3. May inspect grain for smut, …

Grain Picker Job

1. Separates and weighs samples of grain preparatory to grading: Pours grain sample into hopper of sample divider and pulls lever to allow grain to fall through divider into two receptacles. 2. Removes and weighs specific amount of grain from each receptacle to obtain representative but reduced sample. 3. Pours …

Grain Receiver Job

1. Tends conveyors and weighs carload shipments of grain, such as corn or milo, and routes grain to steep tanks: Weighs car spotted on scales to record and verify weight against consignment sheet. 2. Notifies MATERIAL HANDLER that car is ready for unloading. 3. Weighs empty car. 4. Starts conveyor …

Grader, Meat Job

1. Examines animal carcasses to determine grade in terms of sales value: Examines carcasses suspended from stationary hooks or hooks attached to overhead conveyor to determine grade based on age, sex, shape, thickness of meat, quantity and distribution of fat, color, texture, and marbling of lean meat. 2. Attaches grade …

Grading Clerk Job

1. Scores objective-type examination papers and computes and records test grades and averages of students in school or college: Grades papers, using electric marking machine. 2. Totals errors found and computes and records percentage grade on student’s grade card. 3. Averages test grades to compute student’s grade for course. 4. …

Graduate Assistant Job

1. Assists department chairperson, faculty members or other professional staff members in college or university, by performing any combination of following duties: Assists in library, develops teaching materials, such as syllabi and visual aids, assists in laboratory or field research, prepares and gives examinations, assists in student conferences, grades examinations …

Grain Drier Job

1. Tends steam or gas-fired drum to dry grain or yeast: Starts dryer, turns steam valve, or lights gas burner and observes thermometers and pressure gauges to heat dryer to operating temperatures. 2. Opens valve or starts screw conveyor and vacuum pump to convey wet grain through heated drum and …

Grader Marker Job

1. Draws and cuts sets of garment patterns, grading master pattern for each set, and draws marker pattern for use in cutting garment material: Receives set of master garment patterns from PATTERNMAKER for grading. 2. Positions paperboard, grading device, and master pattern in specified sequence on worktable to mark reference …

Grader Tender Job

1. Tends machines that clean and grade seed corn: Starts machines and opens chute gate to permit corn to flow through series of vibrating screens. 2. Adjusts chute slides to regulate flow of corn to reciprocating screens and revolving cylinders that separate corn kernels, according to width, thickness, and length. …

Grader, Dressed Poultry Job

1. Examines and grades dressed poultry: Removes dressed poultry from conveyor, and examines color of skin, feels poultry for presence of bruises, deformities, and pin feathers, and grades accordingly for quality and size. 2. Sorts poultry into specified containers according to grade. 3. May weigh filled containers and record weight …

Grader, Green Meat Job

1. Inspects and sorts pork cuts, such as hams, shoulders, bellies, and fatbacks, preparatory to curing: Examines and feels meat for defects, such as bruises, thickness of skin, shape, and broken leg bones. 2. Segregates pork cuts not meeting standards. 3. Weighs and segregates cuts according to weight and size. …

Goodwill Ambassador Job

1. Promotes goodwill and solicits trade for local business firms who are members of parent organization: Develops list of prospective clients from such sources as newspaper items, utility companies’ records, and local merchants. 2. Visits homes of new residents, prospective parents, recently married couples, engaged persons, and other prospects to …

Governor Assembler, Hydraulic Job

1. Assembles and adjusts mechanical and electrical parts to construct governors for hydraulic turbines, according to specifications, using pneumatic tools, handtools, gauges, and micrometers: Aligns motor mounts and motors on reservoir base and marks location. 2. Removes motors and drills and taps foundation holes. 3. Inserts steel pins in holes …