Conveyor Operators and Tenders

Typical tasks

From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.

• Stop equipment or machinery and clear jams, using poles, bars, and hand tools, or remove damaged materials from conveyors.
• Load, unload, or adjust materials or products on conveyors by hand, by using lifts, hoists, and scoops, or by opening gates, chutes, or hoppers.
• Observe conveyor operations and monitor lights, dials, and gauges to maintain specified operating levels and to detect equipment malfunctions.
• Observe packages moving along conveyors to identify packages, detect defective packaging, and perform quality control.
• Position deflector bars, gates, chutes, or spouts to divert flow of materials from one conveyor onto another conveyor.
• Clean, sterilize, and maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.
• Record production data such as weights, types, quantities, and storage locations of materials, as well as equipment performance problems and downtime.
• Inform supervisors of equipment malfunctions that need to be addressed.
• Manipulate controls, levers, and valves to start pumps, auxiliary equipment, or conveyors, and to adjust equipment positions, speeds, timing, and material flows.
• Distribute materials, supplies, and equipment to work stations, using lifts and trucks.
• Press console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulators or reject lines.
• Thread strapping through strapping tools and secure battens with strapping to form protective pallets around extrusions.