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O*NET detailed work activityDirect material handling or moving activities
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15 jobs18 tasks
Leading people runs on trust, presence and reading the situation: motivating, correcting, backing people up and taking responsibility. AI can't do that for you.
Part of Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures, under the O*NET work activity group Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 1 AI-assist, 17 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Enforce safety rules and regulations.
- Enforce safety rules and regulations.
- Direct helpers engaged in placing blocking or outrigging under cranes.
- Direct ground crews in the loading, unloading, securing, or staging of aircraft cargo or baggage.
- Supervise recycling technicians, community service workers, or other recycling operations employees or volunteers.
- Oversee recycling pick-up or drop-off programs to ensure compliance with community ordinances.
- Direct crews to reload freight or to insert additional bracing or packing as necessary.
- Direct other workers to move stakes, place blocks, position anchors or cables, or move materials.
- Supervise oil pumpers and other workers engaged in producing oil from wells.
- Arrange for hauling of logs to appropriate mill sites.
- Direct ground workers engaged in activities such as moving stakes or markers, or changing positions of towers.
- Direct workers in transportation or related services, such as pumping, moving, storing, or loading or unloading of materials.
- Give directions to laborers who are packing goods and moving them onto trailers.
- Direct workers engaged in placing blocks or outriggers to prevent capsizing of machines when lifting heavy loads.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Transmit and explain work orders to laborers.
- Issue directions for loading, unloading, and seating in boats.
- Direct or coordinate crew members or workers performing activities such as loading or unloading cargo, steering vessels, operating engines, or operating, maintaining, or repairing ship equipment.
- Direct or assist workers placing shore anchors and cables, laying additional pipes from dredges to shore, and pumping water from pontoons.