INDUSTRIAL TRUCK AND TRACTOR OPERATOR

Job Definition:

Job Description:

• Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.

Duties and Tasks:

• 1) Operate or tend automatic stacking, loading, packaging, or cutting machines.
• 2) Signal workers to discharge, dump, or level materials.
• 3) Hook tow trucks to trailer hitches and fasten attachments, such as graders, plows, rollers, and winch cables to tractors, using hitchpins.
• 4) Turn valves and open chutes in order to dump, spray, or release materials from dump cars or storage bins into hoppers.
• 5) Move controls to drive gasoline- or electric-powered trucks, cars, or tractors and transport materials between loading, processing, and storage areas.
• 6) Move levers and controls that operate lifting devices, such as forklifts, lift beams and swivel-hooks, hoists, and elevating platforms, in order to load, unload, transport, and stack material.
• 7) Position lifting devices under, over, or around loaded pallets, skids, and boxes, and secure material or products for transport to designated areas.
• 8) Manually load or unload materials onto or off pallets, skids, platforms, cars, or lifting devices.

Activities:

• 1) Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
• 2) Handling and Moving Objects — Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• 3) Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• 4) Performing General Physical Activities — Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
• 5) Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• 6) Controlling Machines and Processes — Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
• 7) Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• 8) Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• 9) Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• 10) Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• 11) Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.

Abilities:

• 1) 1) Arm-Hand Steadiness — The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• 2) Multilimb Coordination — The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
• 3) Depth Perception — The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
• 4) Control Precision — The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• 5) Static Strength — The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
  
• 6) Trunk Strength — The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without ‘giving out’ or fatiguing.
• 7) Stamina — The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
• 8) Extent Flexibility — The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• 9) Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• 10) Dynamic Strength — The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
• 11) Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
• 12) Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• 13) Response Orientation — The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
• 14) Rate Control — The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
• 15) Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• 16) Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
• 17) Spatial Orientation — The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
• 18) Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• 19) Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• 20) Reaction Time — The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
• 21) Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• 22) Peripheral Vision — The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one’s side when the eyes are looking ahead.
• 23) Gross Body Coordination — The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
• 24) Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• 25) Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• 26) Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
• 27) Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• 28) Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• 29) Speed of Limb Movement — The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
• 30) Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Knowledge

• 1) Transportation — Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail,
• 2) AMathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• 3) English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.