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O*NET detailed work activityUnload materials or equipment
Stays humanHands-on work
8 jobs12 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, 12 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.
- Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.
- Lift and unload containers of mail or parcels onto equipment for transportation to sortation stations.
- Remove containers of sorted mail or parcels and transfer them to designated areas according to established procedures.
- Unload and sort items collected along delivery routes.
- Remove from machines printed materials, such as labeled articles, postmarked envelopes or tape, and folded sheets.
- Load, unload, or position lighting equipment.
- Unload or unpack incoming shipments.
- Direct delivery trucks to shipping doors or designated marshaling areas and help load and unload goods safely.
- Load and unload mail trucks, sometimes lifting containers of mail onto equipment that transports items to sorting stations.