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O*NET detailed work activityLoad materials into production equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
40 jobs51 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 Load products, materials, or equipment for transportation or further processing, under the O*NET work activity group Performing General Physical Activities. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 51 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Load and unload equipment chambers and transport finished product to storage or to area for further processing.
- Load presses with paper and make necessary adjustments, according to paper size.
- Combine measured ingredients in bowls of mixing, blending, or cooking machinery.
- Load specified amounts of metal and flux into furnaces or clay crucibles.
- Dump or pour specified amounts of materials into machinery or equipment.
- Unload mixtures into containers or onto conveyors for further processing.
- Mount or load material such as paper, plastic, wood, or rubber in feeding mechanisms of cementing or gluing machines.
- Pour, dump, or load prescribed quantities of ingredients or products into cooking equipment, manually or using a hoist.
- Dump, pour, or load specified amounts of refined or unrefined materials into equipment or containers for further processing or storage.
- Draw thread through machine guide slots, needles, and presser feet in preparation for stitching, or load rolls of wire through machine axles.
- Fill processing or cooking containers, such as kettles, rotating cookers, pressure cookers, or vats, with ingredients, by opening valves, by starting pumps or injectors, or by hand.
- Load sandblasting equipment with abrasives, attach nozzles to hoses, and turn valves to admit compressed air and activate jets.
- Load and unload items from machines, conveyors, and conveyances.
- Secure woodstock against a guide or in a holding device, place woodstock on a conveyor, or dump woodstock in a hopper to feed woodstock into machines.
- Dump or scoop prescribed solid, granular, or powdered materials into equipment.
- Load machine hoppers with mixed materials, using augers, or stuff rolls of plastic dough into machine cylinders.
- Select and load materials such as workpieces, objects, and machine parts onto equipment used in coiling processes.
- Load workpieces, plastic material, or chemical solutions into machines.
- Fill machines with glue, cement, or adhesives.
- Load materials into extruding and forming machines, using hand tools, and adjust feed mechanisms to set feed rates.
- Fill hoppers, reservoirs, troughs, or pans with material used to coat, paint, or spray, using conveyors or pails.
- Place products in equipment or on work surfaces for further processing, inspecting, or wrapping.
- Load circuit boards, racks or rolls of film, negatives, or printing paper into processing or printing machines.
- Deposit recoverable materials into chutes or place materials on conveyor belts.
- Unwind lengths of yarn, thread, or twine from spools and wind onto bobbins.
- Load machines with objects to be processed and unload them after cleaning, placing them on conveyors or racks.
- Fill tanks of processing machines with solutions such as developer, dyes, stop-baths, fixers, bleaches, or washes.
- Load equipment receptacles or conveyors with material to be processed, by hand or using hoists.
- Fill glue and paraffin reservoirs, and position rollers to dispense glue onto paperboard.
- Pour, scoop, or dump specified ingredients, metal assemblies, or mixtures into sections of machine prior to starting machines.
- Feed fuel, such as coal and coke, into fireboxes or onto conveyors, and remove ashes from furnaces, using shovels and buckets.
- Lift tote boxes of finished cartons, and dump cartons into feed hoppers.
- Load materials into machinery and equipment, using hand tools.
- Wind chafers and breakers onto plies.
- Load and position wrapping paper, sticks, bags, or cartons into dispensing machines.
- Lay out and mark areas of parts to be shot peened and fill hoppers with shot.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Place spools of thread, cord, or other materials on spindles, insert bobbins, and thread ends through machine guides and components.
- Load and adjust workpieces onto equipment or work tables, using hand tools.
- Obtain or mix inks and fill ink fountains.
- Kindle fires, and shovel fuel and other materials into furnaces or onto conveyors by hand, with hoists, or by directing crane operators.
- Calculate, measure, load, or mix refined feedstock used in biofuels production.
- Calculate, measure, load, or mix biomass feedstock for power generation.
- Set up or operate glue machines by filling glue reservoirs, turning switches to activate heating elements, or adjusting glue flow or conveyor speed.
- Place rolls of paper or cardboard on machine feed tracks, and thread paper through gluing, coating, and slitting rollers.
- Measure or weigh specified amounts of ingredients or materials, and load them into tanks, vats, hoppers, or other equipment.
- Mount rolls of cloth on machines, using hoists, or place textile goods in machines or pieces of equipment.
- Load or feed workpieces into welding machines to join or bond components.
- Position containers to receive parts, and load or unload materials in containers, using dollies or handtrucks.
- Fill hoppers and position spouts to direct flow of flux or manually brush flux onto seams of workpieces.
- Mix and measure compounds, or weigh premixed compounds, and dump them into machine tubs, cavities, or molds.
- Pour or load metal or sand into melting pots, furnaces, molds, or hoppers, using shovels, ladles, or machines.