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Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
Category: Production occupations
Operate or tend machines to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Include cannery workers who pack food products.

Packers and packagers, hand
Category: Transportation and material moving occupations
Pack or package by hand a wide variety of products and materials.

Painters, construction and maintenance
Category: Construction and extraction occupations
Paint walls, equipment, buildings, bridges, and other structural surfaces, using brushes, rollers, and spray guns. May remove old paint to prepare surface prior to painting. May mix colors or oils to obtain desired color or consistency. Exclude "Paperhangers" (47-2142).

Painters, transportation equipment
Category: Production occupations
Operate or tend painting machines to paint surfaces of transportation equipment, such as automobiles, buses, trucks, trains, boats, and airplanes. Include painters in auto body repair facilities.

Painting, coating, and decorating workers
Category: Production occupations
Paint, coat, or decorate articles, such as furniture, glass, plateware, pottery, jewelry, cakes, toys, books, or leather. Exclude "Artists and Related Workers" (27-1011 through 27-1019), "Designers" (27-1021 through 27-1029), "Photographic Process Workers" (51-9131), and "Etchers and Engravers" (51-9194).

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
Category: Production occupations
Set up, operate, or tend paper goods machines that perform a variety of functions, such as converting, sawing, corrugating, banding, wrapping, boxing, stitching, forming, or sealing paper or paperboard sheets into products.

Paperhangers
Category: Construction and extraction occupations
Cover interior walls and ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, or attach advertising posters on surfaces, such as walls and billboards. Duties include removing old materials from surface to be papered.

Paralegals and legal assistants
Category: Legal occupations
Assist lawyers by researching legal precedent, investigating facts, or preparing legal documents. Conduct research to support a legal proceeding, to formulate a defense, or to initiate legal action.

Parking enforcement workers
Category: Protective service occupations
Patrol assigned area, such as public parking lot or section of city to issue tickets to overtime parking violators and illegally parked vehicles.

Parking lot attendants
Category: Transportation and material moving occupations
Park automobiles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May collect fee.

Parts salespersons
Category: Sales and related occupations
Sell spare and replacement parts and equipment in repair shop or parts store.

Patternmakers, metal and plastic
Category: Production occupations
Lay out, machine, fit, and assemble castings and parts to metal or plastic foundry patterns, core boxes, or match plates.

Patternmakers, wood
Category: Production occupations
Plan, lay out, and construct wooden unit or sectional patterns used in forming sand molds for castings.

Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
Category: Construction and extraction occupations
Operate equipment used for applying concrete, asphalt, or other materials to road beds, parking lots, or airport runways and taxiways, or equipment used for tamping gravel, dirt, or other materials. Include concrete and asphalt paving machine operators, form tampers, tamping machine operators, and stone spreader operators.

Payroll and timekeeping clerks
Category: Office and administrative support occupations
Compile and post employee time and payroll data. May compute employees' time worked, production, and commission. May compute and post wages and deductions. May prepare paychecks.

Pediatricians, general
Category: Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent children's diseases and injuries.

Personal and home care aides
Category: Personal care and service occupations
Assist elderly or disabled adults with daily living activities at the person's home or in a daytime non-residential facility. Duties performed at a place of residence may include keeping house (making beds, doing laundry, washing dishes) and preparing meals. May provide meals and supervised activities at non-residential care facilities. May advise families, the elderly, and disabled on such things as nutrition, cleanliness, and household utilities.

Personal care and service workers, all other
Category: Personal care and service occupations
All personal care and service workers not listed separately.

Personal financial advisors
Category: Business and financial operations occupations
Advise clients on financial plans utilizing knowledge of tax and investment strategies, securities, insurance, pension plans, and real estate. Duties include assessing clients' assets, liabilities, cash flow, insurance coverage, tax status, and financial objectives to establish investment strategies.

Pest control workers
Category: Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations
Spray or release chemical solutions or toxic gases and set traps to kill pests and vermin, such as mice, termites, and roaches, that infest buildings and surrounding areas.

Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
Category: Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations
Mix or apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides through sprays, dusts, vapors, soil incorporation or chemical application on trees, shrubs, lawns, or botanical crops. Usually requires specific training and State or Federal certification. Exclude "Commercial Pilots" (53-2012) who operate aviation equipment to dust or spray crops.

Petroleum engineers
Category: Architecture and engineering occupations
Devise methods to improve oil and gas well production and determine the need for new or modified tool designs. Oversee drilling and offer technical advice to achieve economical and satisfactory progress.

Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
Category: Production occupations
Control the operation of petroleum refining or processing units. May specialize in controlling manifold and pumping systems, gauging or testing oil in storage tanks, or regulating the flow of oil into pipelines.

Pharmacists
Category: Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations
Dispense drugs prescribed by physicians and other health practitioners and provide information to patients about medications and their use. May advise physicians and other health practitioners on the selection, dosage, interactions, and side effects of medications.

Pharmacy aides
Category: Healthcare support occupations
Record drugs delivered to the pharmacy, store incoming merchandise, and inform the supervisor of stock needs. May operate cash register and accept prescriptions for filling.

Pharmacy technicians
Category: Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations
Prepare medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, count out, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications.

Philosophy and religion teachers, postsecondary
Category: Education, training, and library occupations
Teach courses in philosophy, religion, and theology. Include both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.

Photographers
Category: Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations
Photograph persons, subjects, merchandise, or other commercial products. May develop negatives and produce finished prints. Include scientific photographers, aerial photographers, and photojournalists.

Photographic process workers
Category: Production occupations
Perform precision work involved in photographic processing, such as editing photographic negatives and prints, using photo-mechanical, chemical, or computerized methods.

Photographic processing machine operators
Category: Production occupations
Operate photographic processing machines, such as photographic printing machines, film developing machines, and mounting presses.

Physical scientists, all other
Category: Life, physical, and social science occupations
All physical scientists not listed separately.

Physical therapist aides
Category: Healthcare support occupations
Under close supervision of a physical therapist or physical therapy assistant, perform only delegated, selected, or routine tasks in specific situations. These duties include preparing the patient and the treatment area.

Physical therapist assistants
Category: Healthcare support occupations
Assist physical therapists in providing physical therapy treatments and procedures. May, in accordance with State laws, assist in the development of treatment plans, carry out routine functions, document the progress of treatment, and modify specific treatments in accordance with patient status and within the scope of treatment plans established by a physical therapist. Generally requires formal training.

Physical therapists
Category: Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations
Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and decrease or prevent deformity of patients suffering from disease or injury.

Physician assistants
Category: Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations
Provide healthcare services typically performed by a physician, under the supervision of a physician. Conduct complete physicals, provide treatment, and counsel patients. May, in some cases, prescribe medication. Must graduate from an accredited educational program for physician assistants. Exclude "Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics" (29-2041), "Medical Assistants" (31-9092), and "Registered Nurses" (29-1111).

Physicians and surgeons, all other
Category: Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations
All physicians and surgeons not listed separately.

Physicists
Category: Life, physical, and social science occupations
Conduct research into the phases of physical phenomena, develop theories and laws on the basis of observation and experiments, and devise methods to apply laws and theories to industry and other fields.

Physics teachers, postsecondary
Category: Education, training, and library occupations
Teach courses pertaining to the laws of matter and energy. Include both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.

Pile-driver operators
Category: Construction and extraction occupations
Operate pile drivers mounted on skids, barges, crawler treads, or locomotive cranes to drive pilings for retaining walls, bulkheads, and foundations of structures, such as buildings, bridges, and piers.

Pipelayers
Category: Construction and extraction occupations
Lay pipe for storm or sanitation sewers, drains, and water mains. Perform any combination of the following tasks: grade trenches or culverts, position pipe, or seal joints. Exclude "Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers" (51-4121).

Plant and system operators, all other
Category: Production occupations
All plant and system operators not listed separately.

Plasterers and stucco masons
Category: Construction and extraction occupations
Apply interior or exterior plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials. May also set ornamental plaster.

Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Category: Production occupations
Set up, operate, or tend plating or coating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces. Include electrolytic processes.

Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
Category: Construction and extraction occupations
Assemble, install, alter, and repair pipelines or pipe systems that carry water, steam, air, or other liquids or gases. May install heating and cooling equipment and mechanical control systems.

Podiatrists
Category: Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations
Diagnose and treat diseases and deformities of the human foot.

Police and sheriff's patrol officers
Category: Protective service occupations
Maintain order, enforce laws and ordinances, and protect life and property in an assigned patrol district. Perform combination of following duties: patrol a specific area on foot or in a vehicle; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts.

Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers
Category: Office and administrative support occupations
Receive complaints from public concerning crimes and police emergencies. Broadcast orders to police patrol units in vicinity of complaint to investigate. Operate radio, telephone, or computer equipment to receive reports of fires and medical emergencies and relay information or orders to proper officials.

Political science teachers, postsecondary
Category: Education, training, and library occupations
Teach courses in political science, international affairs, and international relations. Include both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.

Political scientists
Category: Life, physical, and social science occupations
Study the origin, development, and operation of political systems. Research a wide range of subjects, such as relations between the United States and foreign countries, the beliefs and institutions of foreign nations, or the politics of small towns or a major metropolis. May study topics, such as public opinion, political decision making, and ideology. May analyze the structure and operation of governments, as well as various political entities. May conduct public opinion surveys, analyze election results, or analyze public documents.

Postal service clerks
Category: Office and administrative support occupations
Perform any combination of tasks in a post office, such as receive letters and parcels; sell postage and revenue stamps, postal cards, and stamped envelopes; fill out and sell money orders; place mail in pigeon holes of mail rack or in bags according to State, address, or other scheme; and examine mail for correct postage.



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