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O*NET detailed work activityAssemble products or production equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
11 jobs16 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 Assemble equipment or components, 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, 16 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Assemble and position equipment, explosives, and blasting caps in holes at specified depths, or load perforating guns or torpedoes with explosives.
- Rotate through all the tasks required in a particular production process.
- Fasten seams or joints together with welds, bolts, cement, rivets, solder, caulks, metal drive clips, or bonds to assemble components into products or to repair sheet metal items.
- Bolt together pump and engine parts, and connect tanks and flow lines.
- Attach guide shoes and rollers to minimize the lateral motion of cars as they travel through shafts.
- Assemble large vessels in an on-site fabrication shop prior to installation to ensure proper fit.
- Bolt together pump and engine parts.
- Assemble elevator cars, installing each car's platform, walls, and doors.
- Connect car frames to counterweights, using steel cables.
- Build sleds from logs and timbers for use in hauling camp buildings and machinery through wooded areas.
- Assemble and install new pipe organs and pianos in buildings.
- Install gas burners to convert furnaces from wood, coal, or oil.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Assemble, install, repair, and maintain elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as test lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.
- Assemble and position machines, augers, casing pipes, and other equipment, using hand and power tools.
- Assemble electrically powered stairs, steel frameworks, and tracks, and install associated motors and electrical wiring.
- Insert waterproof sealers, bullets, and/or powder charges into guns, and screw gun ports back into place.