Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 6 - Economic Development › Part 4 - Community Services › Chapter 11 - Economic Development-Public Improvements › Rule 6-4-11.8 - Job Category Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
A. Officials and
				Managers: Occupations requiring administrative personnel who set broad
				policies, exercise overall responsibility for execution of these policies, and
				direct individual departments or special phases of a firm's operations.
				Includes: officials, executives, middle management, plant managers, and
				superintendents, salaried supervisors who are members of management, purchasing
				agents and buyers, and kindred workers.
B. Professional: Occupations requiring either
				college graduation or experience of such kind and amount as to provide a
				comparable background. Includes: accountants and auditors, airplane pilots and
				navigators, architects, artists, chemists, designers, dieticians, editors,
				engineers, lawyers, librarians, mathematicians, natural scientists, registered
				professional nurses, personnel and labor relations workers, physical
				scientists, physicians, social scientists, teachers, and kindred
				workers.
C. Technicians:
				Occupations requiring a combination of basic scientific knowledge and manual
				skill which can be obtained through about 2 years of post high school education
				such as is offered in many technical institutes and junior colleges, or through
				equivalent on-the-job training. Includes computer programmers and operators,
				drafters, engineering aides, junior engineers, mathematic aides, licensed
				practical or vocational nurses, photographers, radio operators, scientific
				assistants, surveyors, technical illustrators, technicians (medical, dental,
				electronic, physical science) and kindred workers.
D. Sales: Occupations engaging wholly or
				primarily in direct selling. Includes: advertising agents and sales workers,
				insurance agents and brokers, real estate agents and brokers, sales-workers,
				demonstrators, retail sales workers, and sales clerks, grocery clerks and
				cashiers, checkers, and kindred workers.
E. Office and Clerical: Includes all
				clerical-type work regardless of level of difficulty, where the activities are
				predominantly nonmanual though some manual work not directly involved with
				altering or transporting the products is included. Includes: bookkeepers,
				cashiers, collectors (bills and accounts), messengers and office helpers,
				office machine operators, shipping and receiving clerks, stenographers,
				typists, and secretaries, telegraph and telephone operators, and kindred
				workers.
F. Craft Workers
				(skilled): Manual workers of relatively high skill level having a thorough and
				comprehensive knowledge of the processes involved in their work. Exercise
				considerable independent judgment and usually receive an extensive period of
				training. Includes: the building trades, hourly paid supervisors and lead
				operators (who are not members of management), mechanics and repairers, skilled
				machining occupations, compositors and typesetters, electricians, engravers,
				job setters (metal), motion picture projectionists, pattern and model makers,
				stationary engineers, tailors, and kindred workers.
G. Operatives (semi-skilled): Workers who
				operate machines or other equipment or perform other factory-type duties of
				intermediate skill level which can be mastered in a few weeks and require only
				limited training. Includes: apprentices (auto mechanics, plumbers, bricklayers,
				carpenters, electricians, machinists, mechanics, building trades, metalworking
				trades, printing trades, etc.), operatives, attendants (auto service and
				parking), blasters, chauffeurs, delivery workers, dressmakers and sewers
				(except factory), dryers, furnace workers, heaters (metal), laundry and dry
				cleaning, operatives, milliners, mine operatives and laborers, motor operators,
				oilers and greasers (except auto), painters (except construction and
				maintenance), photographic process workers, boiler tenders, truck and tractor
				drivers, weavers (textile), welders and flame cutters, and kindred
				workers.
H. Laborers (unskilled):
				Workers in manual occupations which generally require no special training to
				perform elementary duties that may be learned in a few days and require the
				application of little or no independent judgment. Includes: garage laborers,
				car washers and greasers, gardeners (except farm) and ground keepers,
				stevedores, wood choppers, laborers performing lifting, digging, mixing,
				loading and pulling operations, and kindred workers.
I. Service Workers: Workers in both
				protective and nonprotective service occupations. Includes: attendants
				(hospital and other institutions, professional and personal service, including
				nurses aides and orderlies), barbers, char-workers and cleaners, cooks (except
				household), counter and fountain workers, elevator operators, firefighters and
				fire protection guards, doorkeepers, stewards, janitors, police officers and
				detectives, porters, waiters and waitresses, and kindred workers.
24 CFR
				  570.480-497