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"Industrial Truck and Tractor Operator"

Job Description - Part 1

Basic Job Description:

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

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Job Duties and Tasks for: "Industrial Truck and Tractor Operator"

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.

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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.

9) Perform routine maintenance on vehicles and auxiliary equipment, such as cleaning, lubricating, recharging batteries, fueling, or replacing liquefied-gas tank.

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10) Weigh materials or products, and record weight and other production data on tags or labels.