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| SUB-MAJOR GROUP 83: DRIVERS AND MOBILE-PLANT OPERATORS
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Drivers and mobile-plant operators drive and tend trains and
motor vehicles, or drive, operate and monitor mobile industrial
and agricultural machinery and equipment, or execute deck duties
on board ship and other water-borne craft.
The work mainly calls for experience with and an
understanding of the machinery and equipment which is being
operated and monitored.
Ability to cope with machine-paced
operations and to adapt to technological innovations is often
required.
Tasks performed by workers in this sub-major group usually
include: driving and tending trains and motor vehicles: driving,
operating and monitoring mobile industrial and agricultural
machinery and equipment ; carrying out deck duties on board ship
and other water-borne craft.
Supervision of other workers may
be included.
Occupations in this minor group are classified into the
following unit groups:
831 Locomotive-engine drivers and related workers
832 Motor-vehicle drivers
833 Agricultural and other mobile-plant operators
834 Ships' deck crews and related workers
Note
Occupations are classified into Major group 7, Craft and
related trades workers, if the tasks are carried out by hand and
by hand powered and other tools and call for an understanding
of the work organisation, the materials and tools used, and the
nature and purpose of the final product.
Occupations are classified into Major group 9, Elementary
occupations if the tasks are of a simple and routine nature,
mainly entail the use of hand-held tools, some physical effort,
little or no previous experience and understanding of the work,
and limited initiative or judgement.
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