Work
Performed
Worker Requirements
Sample Occupations
Related
Clusters
| CAREER CLUSTER BRIEF |
MACHINE DRIVING |
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CAREER AREA - ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY |
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| Work activities in this group primarily involve starting, stopping, and moving the controls of machines that must be steered or guided in order to fabricate, process, and/or move materials and products. The work is occasionally performed at the given signals of others. Typical machines are farm tractors, trucks, hoisting machines, and charging machines which pave roads, transport people or materials, hoist building supplies, and charge ore into furnaces. |
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Worker Requirements |
| Spatial discrimination; eye-hand-foot coordination; manual dexterity; a preference for working with machines and equipment; the ability to follow instructions; and facility in adapting to routine, repetitive work. |
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Sample Occupations |
| Truck Driver |
| Locomotive Engineer |
| Dinkey Operator |
| Crane and Tower Operator |
| Excavation and Loading Machine Operator |
| Grader, Dozer, and Scraper Operator |
| Hoist and Winch Operator |
| Industrial Truck and Tractor Operator |
| Operating Engineer |
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| Passenger Services |
| Manipulating |
| Machine Operating |
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