According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Observe packages moving along conveyors to identify packages, detect defective packaging, and perform quality control. | 92% |
| Collect samples of materials or products, checking them to ensure conformance to specifications or sending them to laboratories for analysis. | 91% |
| Inform supervisors of equipment malfunctions that need to be addressed. | 90% |
| Position deflector bars, gates, chutes, or spouts to divert flow of materials from one conveyor onto another conveyor. | 89% |
| Observe conveyor operations and monitor lights, dials, and gauges to maintain specified operating levels and to detect equipment malfunctions. | 89% |
| Record production data such as weights, types, quantities, and storage locations of materials, as well as equipment performance problems and downtime. | 89% |
| Repair or replace equipment components or parts such as blades, rolls, and pumps. | 88% |
| Load, unload, or adjust materials or products on conveyors by hand, by using lifts, hoists, and scoops, or by opening gates, chutes, or hoppers. | 88% |
| Stop equipment or machinery and clear jams, using poles, bars, and hand tools, or remove damaged materials from conveyors. | 86% |
| Manipulate controls, levers, and valves to start pumps, auxiliary equipment, or conveyors, and to adjust equipment positions, speeds, timing, and material flows. | 86% |
| Weigh or measure materials and products, using scales or other measuring instruments, or read scales on conveyors that continually weigh products, to verify specified tonnages and prevent overloads. | 86% |
| Read production and delivery schedules, and confer with supervisors, to determine sorting and transfer procedures, arrangement of packages on pallets, and destinations of loaded pallets. | 85% |
| Operate consoles to control automatic palletizing equipment. | 84% |
| Press console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulators or reject lines. | 84% |
| Clean, sterilize, and maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants. | 83% |
| Affix identifying information to materials or products, using hand tools. | 83% |
| Distribute materials, supplies, and equipment to work stations, using lifts and trucks. | 83% |
| Move, assemble, and connect hoses or nozzles to material hoppers, storage tanks, conveyor sections or chutes, and pumps. | 82% |
| Thread strapping through strapping tools and secure battens with strapping to form protective pallets around extrusions. | 82% |
| Contact workers in work stations or other departments to request movement of materials, products, or machinery, or to notify them of incoming shipments and their estimated delivery times. | 82% |
| Measure dimensions of bundles, using rulers, and cut battens to required sizes, using power saws. | 81% |
| Operate elevator systems in conjunction with conveyor systems. | 78% |
| Join sections of conveyor frames at temporary working areas, and connect power units. | 78% |
