Description
Control or tend conveyors or conveyor systems that move materials or products to and from stockpiles, processing stations, departments, or vehicles. May control speed and routing of materials or products.
- • Observe packages moving along conveyors to identify packages, detect defective packaging, and perform quality control.
- • Position deflector bars, gates, chutes, or spouts to divert flow of materials from one conveyor onto another conveyor.
- • Weigh or measure materials and products, using scales or other measuring instruments, or read scales on conveyors that continually weigh products, to verify specified tonnages and prevent overloads.
- • Manipulate controls, levers, and valves to start pumps, auxiliary equipment, or conveyors, and to adjust equipment positions, speeds, timing, and material flows.
- • Record production data such as weights, types, quantities, and storage locations of materials, as well as equipment performance problems and downtime.
- • Inform supervisors of equipment malfunctions that need to be addressed.
- • Clean, sterilize, and maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.
- • Observe conveyor operations and monitor lights, dials, and gauges to maintain specified operating levels and to detect equipment malfunctions.
- • Read production and delivery schedules, and confer with supervisors, to determine sorting and transfer procedures, arrangement of packages on pallets, and destinations of loaded pallets.
- • Repair or replace equipment components or parts such as blades, rolls, and pumps.
- • Contact workers in work stations or other departments to request movement of materials, products, or machinery, or to notify them of incoming shipments and their estimated delivery times.
- • Stop equipment or machinery and clear jams, using poles, bars, and hand tools, or remove damaged materials from conveyors.
- • Collect samples of materials or products, checking them to ensure conformance to specifications or sending them to laboratories for analysis.
- • Load, unload, or adjust materials or products on conveyors by hand, by using lifts, hoists, and scoops, or by opening gates, chutes, or hoppers.
- • Affix identifying information to materials or products, using hand tools.
- • Distribute materials, supplies, and equipment to work stations, using lifts and trucks.
- • Move, assemble, and connect hoses or nozzles to material hoppers, storage tanks, conveyor sections or chutes, and pumps.
- • Press console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulators or reject lines.
- • Join sections of conveyor frames at temporary working areas, and connect power units.
- • Thread strapping through strapping tools and secure battens with strapping to form protective pallets around extrusions.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
