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O*NET detailed work activitySignal others to coordinate vehicle movement
Stays humanHands-on work
10 jobs15 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 Signal others to coordinate work activities, under the O*NET work activity group Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 15 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Signal locomotive engineers to start or stop trains when coupling or uncoupling cars, using hand signals, lanterns, or radio communication.
- Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines.
- Signal engineers to begin train runs, stop trains, or change speed, using telecommunications equipment or hand signals.
- Observe signals from other crew members so that work activities can be coordinated.
- Signal crew members for movement of engines or trains, using lanterns, hand signals, radios, or telephones.
- Observe hand signals, grade stakes, or other markings when operating machines so that work can be performed to specifications.
- Signal other workers to set brakes and to throw track switches when switching cars from trains to way stations.
- Signal passing vessels, using whistles, flashing lights, flags, or radios.
- Call out train signals to assistants to verify meanings.
- Guide aircraft to designated areas using hand signals, batons, or other methods.
- Signal transportation operators to stop or to proceed.
- Tow and maneuver barges or signal tugboats to tow barges to destinations.
- Signal workers to move loaded cars.
- Set flares, flags, lanterns, or torpedoes in front and at rear of trains during emergency stops to warn oncoming trains.