Definitions of EEO-4 Job Categories
EEO-4 Codes are the bases of job groups for state and local government employers. EEO-4 codes include:
1. Officials/Administrators: Occupations in which employees set broad policies; exercise overall responsibility for execution of these policies; direct individual departments or special phases of the agency’s operations; or provide specialized consultation on a regional, district, or area basis. Includes: departmental heads; bureau chiefs; division chiefs; directors; deputy directors; controllers; examiners; wardens; superintendents; inspectors; and kindred workers.
2. Professionals: Occupations which require specialized and theoretical knowledge which is usually acquired through college training or through work experience and other training which provides comparable knowledge. Includes: Personnel and labor relations workers; social workers; doctors; dietitians; psychologists; registered nurses; economists; lawyers; systems analysts; accountants; engineers; employment and vocational counselors; teachers and instructors; and kindred workers.
3. Technicians: Occupations which require a combination of basic scientific or technical knowledge and manual skill which can be obtained through specialized postsecondary school education or through equivalent on-the-job training. Includes: computer programmers and operators; drafters; surveyors; licensed practical nurses; photographers; radio operators; technical illustrators; highway technicians; technicians (medical, dental, electronic, physical sciences); assessors; inspectors; police and fire sergeants; and kindred workers.
4. Protective Service Workers: Occupations in which workers are entrusted with public safety, security, and protection from destructive forces. Includes: police patrol officers; fire fighters; guards; deputy sheriffs; bailiffs; correctional officers; detectives; marshals; harbor patrol officers; and kindred workers.
5. Paraprofessionals: Occupations in which workers perform some of the duties of a professional or technician in a supportive role, which usually requires less formal training and/or experience normally required for professional or technical status. Such positions may fall within an identified pattern of staff development and promotion under a “new careers” concept. Includes: library assistants; research assistants; medical aids; child support workers; police auxiliary; welfare service aides; recreation assistants; homemaker aides; home health aides; and kindred workers.
6. Office/Clerical: Occupations in which workers are responsible for internal and external communication, recording and retrieval of data and/or information, and other paperwork required in an office. Includes: bookkeepers; messengers; office machine operators; clerk/typists; stenographers; court transcribers; hearings reporters; statistical clerks; dispatchers; license distributors; payroll clerks; and kindred workers.
7. Skilled Craft Workers: Occupations in which workers perform jobs which require special manual skill and a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of the processes involved in the work which is acquired through on-the-job training and experience or through apprenticeship or other formal training program. Includes: mechanics and repairers; electricians; heavy equipment operators; stationary engineers; heavy equipment operators; stationary engineers; skilled machining occupations; carpenters; compositors and typesetters; and kindred workers.
8. Service/Maintenance: Occupations in which workers perform duties which result in or contribute to the comfort, convenience, hygiene, or safety of the general public, or which contribute to the upkeep and care of buildings, facilities, or grounds of public property. Workers in this group may operate machinery. Includes: chauffeurs; laundry and dry cleaning operatives; truck drivers; bus drivers; garage laborers; custodial personnel; gardeners and grounds keepers; refuse collectors; construction laborers; and kindred workers.
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