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O*NET detailed work activityOperate conveyors or other industrial material moving equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
5 jobs10 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 Operate industrial processing or production equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 10 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Control conveyors that run the entire length of shuttle cars to distribute loads as loading progresses.
- Push dual control buttons and move controls to start, stop, or adjust machinery and equipment.
- Operate levers to move conveyor booms or shovels so that mine contents such as coal, rock, and ore can be placed into cars or onto conveyors.
- Advance machines to gather material and convey it into cars.
- Operate elevator systems in conjunction with conveyor systems.
- Open and close gates of belt and pneumatic conveyors on machines that are fed directly from preceding machines.
- Operate conveyors and equipment to transfer grain or other materials from transportation vehicles.
- Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.