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O*NET detailed work activityInstall parts, assemblies, or attachments in transportation or material handling equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
10 jobs14 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Assemble equipment or components, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. 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
- Raise levers to couple and uncouple cars for makeup and breakup of trains.
- Seal outlet valves on tank cars, barges, and trucks.
- Sell and install accessories, such as batteries, windshield wiper blades, fan belts, bulbs, or headlamps.
- Unload and assemble pipes and pumping equipment, using hand tools.
- Change water filters.
- Disassemble and reassemble machines or equipment or remove and reattach vehicle parts or trim, using hand tools.
- Install engine controls, propeller shafts, or propellers.
- Install or remove special equipment, such as tire chains, grader blades, plow blades, or sanders.
- Fit boot spoilers, side skirts, or mud flaps to cars.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Inspect cables or grappling devices for wear and install or replace cables, as needed.
- Install motorcycle accessories.
- Remove and replace tank car dome caps, or direct other workers in their removal and replacement.
- Move, assemble, and connect hoses or nozzles to material hoppers, storage tanks, conveyor sections or chutes, and pumps.
- Join sections of conveyor frames at temporary working areas, and connect power units.