work executor?

[Jack8rkin]

Hello everyone!
I'm translating a public report for my company from Russian.
Need help with selecting a proper term for a widely used Russian term "непосредственный исполнитель работ".
In direct translation it would be: "immediate executor of work".
To me it sounds pretty confusing...
This term stands for a person who does particular work usually with his/her hands (or whatever he/she can use).
It is not a contractor.

Is there a similar term in the English-speaking countries?

Help me please!

Thank you

 

[BobK]

'Blue-collar worker - but thst has socio-political/class overtones. (The opposite - professional/administrative/managerial jobs) is 'white-collar'. These expressions are often extended from the people to the practises: 'blue-collar jobs', 'white-collar crime'.... (I don't know whether the same colour-coding is used in the USA!

A (usually manual) worker in a 'cottage industry' is often called an 'artisan'.

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[Jack8rkin]

Anything less so socio-politically colored?
It may be a guy who does brain work and another one who does manual work in my context.

Have anything on your mind?

 

[Jack8rkin]

Can I say "immediate executor of the work"?
And if I say so, what is going to come to your mind?:-D

 

[Reemy]

I would use laborer or workman for a person who does manual work.

 

[Jack8rkin]

Thank you for your responses.

Let us complicate the task a little!
What if we are not speaking about manual work?
Or let's say it does not matter whether or not the work is manual.
It's just work in general and that's it.
I mean... There is a person who has to do some kind of work.
Let's say he has to prepare a report. (Well it may be called manual work, but still...)
He is directly/immediately responsible for doing this work and he is the one who is doing this work.
Another example:
An engineer performs a CFD analysis of a certain part for a nuclear plant.
He is directly/immediately responsible for doing this work and he is the one who is doing this work.

What would you call the above "workers/laborers"?;-)

 

[5jj]

I think you are looking for a word that does not exist in English.

 

[BobK]

I think you are looking for a word that does not exist in English.

:up: I think you should avoid any paraphrase that includes the word 'executor', which collocates very strongly with 'will' and/or 'estate'. ;-)

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[Barb_D]

Front-line worker?

 

[BobK]

Front-line worker?

:-? The trouble with that, it seems to me, is that it could be understood as meaning 'customer-facing worker' - rather than the one who does the 'nitty-gritty'. And 'production worker', which avoids that problem, is too factory-based. ;-)

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[Reemy]

Your explanation makes me feel that the emphasis here is on the responsibility rather than the type of work and in this case one could describe that person as the person in charge/ employee in charge of a certain task!

 

[Jack8rkin]

I think it all relates to lawyers. It must be a judicial term in Russian, and I'm not sure if there is similar term in English.
It may be compared to the term "principal offender" (the one who commits the crime) in Russian despite all the oddity of comparison. In Russian both the people "commit", however, the first commits a crime; and the other one, just "work".

Actually, we worte in our papers:
List of Executors
"Executors" here are the people who participated in preparting the paper.
They are not only authors, experimenters etc. but also supervisors of all sorts.
U.S. guys did not object to the term, though it may sound strange in English.


I understand "executor" sounds confusing?
Still, Merriam-Webster has the following:
1 a : one who executes something b obsolete : EXECUTIONER
2 a : the person appointed by a testator to execute a will b : LITERARY EXECUTOR

 

[Jack8rkin]

"I would have used "contributors". The way you explain it here, all of these people contributed in one form or another."
I'd say: "Prepared by" but the term had been in use long before I entered employment with the company.

About the term in the thread:
What if I use a descriptive phrase like:
"person who is directly responsible for performance of work" or
"contractor/organizaiton directly responsible for performance of work"
What do you say?

 

[BobK]

...
What if I use a descriptive phrase like:
"person who is directly responsible for performance of work" or
"contractor/organizaiton directly responsible for performance of work"
What do you say?

Those seem fine to me - except maybe for the word 'performance'. Especially iin collocation with 'work' this sounds to me as though it is about a literary or musical work. In each case I'd replace 'performance of work' with 'doing the work'. Another possibility is 'carrying out the work'; I prefer 'doing'.

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