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O*NET detailed work activityOperate forklifts or other loaders
Stays humanHands-on work
8 jobs8 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 Operate lifting or moving equipment, under the O*NET work activity group Controlling Machines and Processes. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 8 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Operate forklifts, pallet jacks, power lifts, or front-end loaders to load bales, bundles, or other heavy items onto trucks for shipping to smelters or other recycled materials processing facilities.
- Operate equipment such as forklifts.
- Operate forklifts to deliver materials.
- Operate machinery and heavy equipment, such as forklifts.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Use forklifts or cranes to move construction material, such as rebar.
- Transport materials, supplies, and finished products between storage and work areas, using forklifts.
- Transport metal ingots to storage areas, using forklifts.
- Use equipment, such as forklifts and automated "trains," to move containers of mail.