FUNCTIONAL POSITION DESCRIPTIONS

Use this screen to maintain position descriptions related to a functional job title. You can also maintain information about the specific requirements for this position, including an overall description, specific duties, required skills and, if applicable, the desired educational degrees.

You can update this table at any time; however, you must have already initialized the Functional Job Titles table and Salary Plans table before entering data here.

Functional Job Title

Enter, or use Lookup to select, the 10-character alphanumeric code for this job title. The functional job title description displays to the right of this field. This is a required field.

Summary Job Title

If you have linked summary job titles to the functional job title, the summary job title displays here, and its description displays to the right of this field.

Grade

The grade you have assigned to the selected functional job title displays here.

EEO

The EEO code that you have assigned to the functional job title displays here.

FLSA Classification

Use these radio buttons to classify the position as Exempt or Non-exempt. Select the appropriate status for this functional job title.

Exempt

Select this radio button if this position is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Non-exempt

Select this radio button if this position is not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Position Type

Use these radio buttons to classify the position as Full-time, Part-time, or Temporary.

Full-time

Select this radio button if this position mandates a full-time employee.

Part-time

Select this radio button if this position mandates a part-time employee.

Temporary

Select this radio button if this position mandates a temporary employee.

Overall Short Description

Use this 256-character notes field to enter in an overall short description for this position.

Duties

Use this 256-character notes field to specify the duties that will be performed by this position.

Additional Information

Use this 256-character notes field for any additional information that pertains to this position.

Hint:  You can use the Clone feature to set up multiple records that have similar requirements. An example of this would be a functional job title of "Lighting Engineer" with multiple grades of "1" through "5." Each grade level has the same basic job description; however, additional skills or degrees are needed at each higher grade. You could set up the first description, then use Clone to import this to be used for the additional grades, assigning each of them to the correct functional job title.

Skills

Select this pushbutton to open a subtask where you can specify the skills required for this position.

Degrees

Select this pushbutton to open a subtask where you can specify the degrees required for this position.