How do they match: Conveyor Operators and Tenders

  • Package Line Operator
  • Packaging Line Operator
  • Packing Line Operator

  • Manipulate controls, levers, and valves to start pumps, auxiliary equipment, or conveyors, and to adjust equipment positions, speeds, timing, and material flows.
  • 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.
  • Press console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulators or reject lines.
  • 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.

  • Operate packing or other material processing equipment.