Start machines, monitor their operations, and record operational data.
Task
Occupations performing this task
Occupations performing related activities
- Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers
- Bakers
- Biofuels Processing Technicians
- Biomass Plant Technicians
- Bus Drivers, School
- Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity
- Butchers and Meat Cutters
- Chefs and Head Cooks
- Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Chemical Plant and System Operators
- Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
- Conveyor Operators and Tenders
- Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria
- Cooks, Restaurant
- Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders
- Crane and Tower Operators
- Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
- Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
- Etchers and Engravers
- Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
- Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
- First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
- First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers
- Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders
- Food Batchmakers
- Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
- Food Preparation Workers
- Food Servers, Nonrestaurant
- Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders
- Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators
- Gas Plant Operators
- Gem and Diamond Workers
- Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
- Helpers--Production Workers
- Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop
- Hydroelectric Plant Technicians
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
- Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Machinists
- Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders
- Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Model Makers, Metal and Plastic
- Model Makers, Wood
- Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Nuclear Power Reactor Operators
- Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders
- Passenger Attendants
- Patternmakers, Wood
- Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers
- Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators
- Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Power Distributors and Dispatchers
- Power Plant Operators
- Prepress Technicians and Workers
- Print Binding and Finishing Workers
- Printing Press Operators
- Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
- Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers
- Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers
- Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
- Recycling and Reclamation Workers
- Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
- Sailors and Marine Oilers
- Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
- Semiconductor Processing Technicians
- Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Sewing Machine Operators
- Ship Engineers
- Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers
- Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders
- Team Assemblers
- Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders
- Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Transportation Inspectors
- Upholsterers
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators
- Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
- Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
Source: O*NET database (task_statements)
