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O*NET detailed work activityCommunicate with others to coordinate material handling or movement
Stays humanBe there for people
6 jobs7 tasks
This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Communicate with others about operational plans or activities, under the O*NET work activity group Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 2 AI-assist, 5 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Monitor product movement to and from storage tanks, coordinating activities with other workers to ensure constant product flow.
- Communicate with other workers, using signals, radios, or telephones, to start and stop flows of materials or substances.
- Signal crew members or deckhands to rig tow lines, open or close gates or ramps, or pull guard chains across entries.
- Contact workers in work stations or other departments to request movement of materials, products, or machinery, or to notify them of incoming shipments and their estimated delivery times.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Signal and assist other workers loading or unloading materials.
- Read written instructions or confer with supervisors about schedules and materials to be moved.
- Read production and delivery schedules, and confer with supervisors, to determine sorting and transfer procedures, arrangement of packages on pallets, and destinations of loaded pallets.