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O*NET detailed work activityOperate mining equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
3 jobs5 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 construction or excavation 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, 5 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Dust rocks after bolting.
- Drive machines into position at working faces.
- Operate mining machines to gather coal and convey it to floors or shuttle cars.
- Move controls to start and regulate movement of conveyors and to start and position drill cutters or torches.
- Set up and adjust equipment used to excavate geological materials.