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Position containers to receive materials or workpieces

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 Position tools or equipment, 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, 5 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Replace, empty, or replenish machine and equipment containers such as gas tanks or boxes.Stays human Maintenance Workers, Machinery
• Position containers to receive parts, and load or unload materials in containers, using dollies or handtrucks.Stays human Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Place or position containers into equipment, and remove containers after completion of cooling or freezing processes.Stays human Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
• Remove full containers from discharge outlets and replace them with empty containers.Stays human Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Lower pans inside cabinets to catch molten filaments until flow of polymer through packs has stopped.Stays human Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers