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O*NET detailed work activityDirect passenger or freight transport activities
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6 jobs14 tasks
Leading people runs on trust, presence and reading the situation: motivating, correcting, backing people up and taking responsibility. AI can't do that for you.
Part of Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures, under the O*NET work activity group Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 14 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Prevent ships under navigational control from engaging in unsafe operations.
- Direct engineers to move cars to fit planned train configurations, combining or separating cars to make up or break up trains.
- Direct and instruct workers engaged in yard activities, such as switching tracks, coupling and uncoupling cars, and routing inbound and outbound traffic.
- Serve as a vessel's docking master upon arrival at a port or at a berth.
- Organize and direct the activities of crew members.
- Oversee operation of vessels used for carrying passengers, motor vehicles, or goods across rivers, harbors, lakes, and coastal waters.
- Supervise other crew members.
- Issue directions for loading, unloading, and seating in boats.
- Supervise and coordinate crew activities to transport freight and passengers and to provide boarding, porter, maid, and meal services to passengers.
- Assign truck drivers or recycling technicians to routes.
- Assign watches or living quarters to crew members.
- Coordinate shipments of recycling materials with shipping brokers or processing companies.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Direct or coordinate crew members or workers performing activities such as loading or unloading cargo, steering vessels, operating engines, or operating, maintaining, or repairing ship equipment.
- Direct workers in transportation or related services, such as pumping, moving, storing, or loading or unloading of materials.