Lift materials or workpieces using cranes or other lifting equipment.
Little of this can be handed to software today.
This happens in the physical world, so software agents do not touch it. Automation here means robotics and machinery, which is a different market from the one mapped on this site, on a much slower clock.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Physical, manual and inspection work |
| Jobs that do it | 12 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | None |
| O*NET activity | Controlling Machines and Processes (4.A.3.a.3) |
What could do this work.
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Who does this work.
12 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators
- Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
- Foundry Mold and Coremakers
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Helpers--Production Workers
- Hydroelectric Plant Technicians
- Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Tool and Die Makers
Work that goes with it.
O*NET groups these under “Operate lifting or moving equipment”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment | 44 |
| Operate forklifts or other loaders | 6 |
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.