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Materials Loader

Materials Loader

  • Ideal for those who enjoy hands-on work with essential materials and logistics.
  • Ensure safe and efficient transport of vital resources like coal, sand, and grain.
  • Unique role in maintaining the flow of goods, crucial for global supply chains.
💰 Earn $50K-$66K
📚 None

Overview

Load and unload chemicals and bulk solids, such as coal, sand, and grain, into or from tank cars, trucks, or ships, using material moving equipment. May perform a variety of other tasks relating to shipment of products. May gauge or sample shipping tanks and test them for leaks.

Scoop

Minimum Education

None

Career Prospects

Good (Increasing by 1-5%)

Training Time

6 months to 1 year

Job Openings

1,400 Annually

Median Earnings

$59,050 in California
$58,620 Nationally

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Day-to-Day

  • Seal outlet valves on tank cars, barges, and trucks.
  • Verify tank car, barge, or truck load numbers to ensure car placement accuracy based on written or verbal instructions.
  • Start pumps and adjust valves or cables to regulate the flow of products to vessels, using knowledge of loading procedures.
  • Check conditions and weights of vessels to ensure cleanliness and compliance with loading procedures.
  • Observe positions of cars passing loading spouts, and swing spouts into the correct positions at the appropriate times.

Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

  • Using data or completing tasks
  • Working with my hands

You are skilled in 💫

    You value 🙏

    • Having support
    • Having freedom
    • Personal relationships

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