How do they match: Conveyor Operators and Tenders

  • Line Operator
  • Production Supply Equipment Tender
  • Assembly Line Tender
  • Chip Loft Worker
  • Package Line Operator
  • Packaging Line Operator
  • Packing Line Operator
  • Tip-Out Worker

  • 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.

  • Affix identifying information to materials or products, using hand tools.
  • Clean, sterilize, and maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.
  • Collect samples of materials or products, checking them to ensure conformance to specifications or sending them to laboratories for analysis.
  • 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.
  • Distribute materials, supplies, and equipment to work stations, using lifts and trucks.
  • Join sections of conveyor frames at temporary working areas, and connect power units.
  • Load, unload, or adjust materials or products on conveyors by hand, by using lifts, hoists, and scoops, or by opening gates, chutes, or hoppers.
  • 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.
  • Record production data such as weights, types, quantities, and storage locations of materials, as well as equipment performance problems and downtime.
  • 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.

  • Clean facilities or work areas.
  • Connect cables or electrical lines.
  • Maintain material moving equipment in good working condition.
  • Measure product or material dimensions.
  • Record operational or production data.
  • Review work orders or schedules to determine operations or procedures.