Specific Vocational Preparation Level 5 Examples

Level 5 Over 6 months up to and including 1 year

5:1 Performs routine tests in medical laboratory for use in treatment and diagnosis of disease. Prepares tissue samples for pathologist, takes blood samples, and prepares vaccines. Carries out such laboratory tests as urinalyses and blood counts, using microscopes, micrometers, and similar instruments. Makes quantitative and qualitative chemical and biological analyses of body specimens under supervision of medical technologist or pathologist.

5:2 Performs assigned duties in business organization, depending on nature of business, to gain knowledge and experience for promotion to management positions. Participates in work of such departments of business as credit, sales, engineering, advertising, accounting, traffic, warehousing, or personnel, performing various duties under close supervision. Observes techniques utilized by experienced workers, learns line and staff functions of each department, and becomes familiar with management policies and viewpoints as they affect each phase of business operations.

5:3 Takes dictation in shorthand of correspondence, reports, and other matters and transcribes dictated material, using typewriter. Performs a variety of clerical duties, such as tabulating and posting data in record books and preparing, issuing, and sending out receipts, bills, invoices, and checks, or works in a stenographic pool transcribing material from sound recordings.

5:4 Receives, stores, and issues supplies and equipment and compiles records of supply transactions aboard ship. Verifies that supplies received are listed on requisitions and invoices. Stores, issues, and inventories supplies and equipment. Compiles report of expenditures.

5:5 Sells men's furnishings, such as neckties, shirts, belts, hats, and accessories. Advises customer on coordination of accessories.

5:6 Operates barrel plating equipment to coat metal objects electrically with metal to build up, protect, or decorate surfaces. Places metal objects in mesh container and immerses them in cleaning solution. Places objects in perforated barrel, turns handle to lower barrel into plating solution and to close electrical contacts. Starts flow of electric current through plating solution, causing plating metal at anode to decompose and be deposited on objects in barrel.

5:7 Controls equipment to bleach pulp. Starts pump and adjusts controls to regulate flow of pulp to absorption towers, bleaching and soaking tanks, and pulp washers according to specified bleaching sequence. Opens valves to allow metered flow of such chemicals as liquid and gaseous chlorine, caustic soda, and peroxide into pulp. Starts agitators to mix pulp and chemicals. Adjusts controls to ensure that pulp bleaching meets specifications, following laboratory test reports.

5:8 Assembles and adjusts typewriters and office machines or subassemblies, using hand tools and holding devices. Screws and bolts parts together, using screwdrivers, wrenches, and other hand tools. Tests operation of machines and typewriters to detect loose and binding parts and to determine synchronization of related parts. Verifies tensions and clearances of parts, using tension scales and space and feeler gauges.

5:9 Performs any combination of the following duties on construction projects, usually working in utility capacity, transferring from one task where demands require worker with varied experience and ability to work without close supervision: Measures distances from grade stakes and drives stakes, stretches tight line, and positions blocks up under forms. Mixes concrete, using portable concrete mixer. Gives direction to workers engaged in dumping concrete into forms. Erects shoring and braces. Aids construction equipment operators to align and move equipment, such as cranes, power shovels, and backhoes, by verifying grades and signaling operators to adjust machines to conform to grade specifications.

5:10 Coats, decorates, glazes, retouches, or tints articles, such as fishing lures, toys, dolls, pottery, artificial flowers, greeting cards, and household appliances, using airbrush. Stirs or shakes coating liquid and thinner to mix them to specified consistency. Pours liquid into airbrush container, couples spray gun to airhose, and starts compressor. Turns adjusting sleeve on nozzle of spray gun to regulate spray pattern and presses button on airbrush to spray coating over workplace or to spray specified designs and decorations on work piece.