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O*NET detailed work activityLoad materials into equipment for processing
Stays humanHands-on work
9 jobs11 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 Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 11 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Load, unload, or adjust materials or products on conveyors by hand, by using lifts, hoists, and scoops, or by opening gates, chutes, or hoppers.
- Load materials and products into machines and equipment, or onto conveyors, using hand tools and moving devices.
- Add chemicals and solutions to tanks to ensure that specifications are met.
- Load materials and products into package processing equipment.
- Place or pour products or materials into containers, using hand tools and equipment, or fill containers from spouts or chutes.
- Add chemicals, solutions, or ingredients to machines or equipment as required by the manufacturing process.
- Place corpses into crematory machines to reduce remains to bone fragments using flame, heat, or alkaline hydrolysis.
- Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
- Assist with cremations and the processing and packaging of cremated remains.
- Insert material for printing or addressing into loading racks on machines, select type or die sizes, and position plates, stencils, or tapes in machine magazines.