Which jobs involve package products for storage or shipment?

11 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers, Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic, Food Batchmakers, Helpers--Production Workers, Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic.

What kind of work is this?

It is physical, manual and inspection work. O*NET files it under the work activity "Handling and Moving Objects" (element 4.A.3.a.2).

Package products for storage or shipment

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.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Barely automatable
Kind of work	Physical, manual and inspection work
Jobs that do it	11 occupations
Tool categories that apply	None
O*NET activity	Handling and Moving Objects (4.A.3.a.2)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 11 occupations that perform it.

Prepare hazardous, radioactive, or mixed waste samples for transportation or storage by treating, compacting, packaging, and labeling them.
Pack finished assemblies for shipment, and transport them to storage areas, using hoists or handtrucks.
Package finished products and prepare them for shipment.
Inspect and pack the final product.
Reel extruded products into rolls of specified lengths and weights.
Unload finished products from conveyor belts, pack them in containers, and place containers in warehouses.
Remove finished workpieces from machines and place them in boxes or on racks, setting aside pieces that are defective.
Prepare finished books for shipping by wrapping or packing books and stacking boxes on pallets.
Hang, fold, package, and tag finished articles for delivery to customers.
Adjust machine components and machine tension and pressure according to size or processing angle of product.
Pack and store materials and products.
Tend or operate machine that packages product.
Tie products in bundles for further processing or shipment, following prescribed procedures.
Secure finished packaged items by hand tying, sewing, gluing, stapling, or attaching fastener.
Stack finished packaged items, or wrap protective material around each item, and pack the items in cartons or containers.
Start machine by engaging controls.
Package the product in the form in which it will be sent out, for example, filling bags with flour from a chute or spout.

What we would actually use

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.

Our pickBuy nothing

Nothing on this site applies. Automation here is robotics and machinery, a different market on a much slower clock, and no software subscription moves it.

Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.

How people actually do it

No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.

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Who does this work

11 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Package objects”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

Related work activities
Activity	Jobs
Package objects for shipping	11
Package materials or products	7
Package food or supplies	5
Package agricultural products for shipment or further processing	4
Package materials for transport	4

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.