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O*NET detailed work activityOperate packing or other material processing equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
4 jobs4 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 industrial processing or production 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, 4 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Operate equipment that compresses collected refuse.
- Press console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulators or reject lines.
- Operate or tend automatic stacking, loading, packaging, or cutting machines.
- Operate recycling processing equipment, such as sorters, balers, crushers, and granulators to sort and process materials.