What You'll Do

  • Position deflector bars, gates, chutes, or spouts to divert flow of materials from one conveyor onto another conveyor.
  • 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.
  • Manipulate controls, levers, and valves to start pumps, auxiliary equipment, or conveyors, and to adjust equipment positions, speeds, timing, and material flows.
  • 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.
  • Clean, sterilize, and maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.
  • Observe conveyor operations and monitor lights, dials, and gauges to maintain specified operating levels and to detect equipment malfunctions.
  • 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.
  • Repair or replace equipment components or parts such as blades, rolls, and pumps.
  • 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.

Essential Skills

Operations Monitoring 4.0/5
Operation and Control 4.0/5
Monitoring 3.38/5
Active Listening 3.12/5
Speaking 3.0/5
Critical Thinking 3.0/5
Complex Problem Solving 3.0/5
Reading Comprehension 2.88/5
Troubleshooting 2.88/5
Quality Control Analysis 2.88/5
Judgment and Decision Making 2.88/5
Time Management 2.88/5

Career Fit Overview

Use this summary to understand the kind of profile this role rewards. It helps you judge whether this career looks like a stronger match than your current role, a nearby move worth exploring, or a broader path to compare more seriously.

Top passions

  • Maker: Building and fixing energizes you. You like tangible results and practical tools.
  • Organizer: Bringing order to data and processes satisfies you.
  • Leader: Taking charge and moving ideas forward motivates you.

Common styles

Dependability, Attention to Detail, Cautiousness, Stress Tolerance, Integrity

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Key Abilities

This career demands strong capabilities in the following areas:

Oral Comprehension 3.75/5
Control Precision 3.75/5
Problem Sensitivity 3.62/5
Oral Expression 3.5/5
Deductive Reasoning 3.5/5
Inductive Reasoning 3.38/5
Multilimb Coordination 3.38/5
Perceptual Speed 3.25/5

Technologies & Tools

Control system software Conveyor control software Intelligrated InControlWare Microsoft Excel Microsoft Windows SAP software Sortation software

Work Environment & Strengths

Common Strengths for This Career

  • Dependability (High importance: 4.43/5)
  • Attention to Detail (High importance: 4.24/5)
  • Cautiousness (High importance: 4.04/5)
  • Stress Tolerance (High importance: 3.67/5)
  • Integrity (High importance: 3.48/5)

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How to Become One

Little or no previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for this career. Training is provided on the job.

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Also Known As

This career is known by many different job titles across industries. Here are all the variations:

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Career Fit FAQs

Is this career a good fit for me

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Can this help if I want to stay in my field

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What should I compare first

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