safety valve Bert. Safety valve.
Fact checker, editor, move evaluator and approver.. the guy who checks everyone's work, uses his experience to make sure mistakes are not done.
In the Engineering world, we have engineering Managers,, QA personnel. Peer review. ISO2000 and a few hundred ISO standards to follow.
If you are in product design, you have CSA, UL , CE and others. All are designed to minimize mistakes.
a POHO is the Engineering Manager or QA manager.. there to make sure some Engineer, does not design the sewer network for regular rainfall, but does so for the 10 or 20 year storm event. While at the same time, does not design it for the 100 year event, since the sewers will probably be ripped up before then and there is no need for 2 M diameter conduits to carry 200-300 L/sec of rainwater. And cost millions.
He is there to make sure no more Stone for Branstromm and Sokolov. No more Murray signings, no more Stefan signing, no more 101 other idiot signings, trades and draft moves.
he is Andlauer's safety valve.