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Loaders

Loaders - Skills and Abilities

Tank car, truck, and ship loaders need to:

Communicate

  • Read and understand work-related materials.
  • Understand spoken information.
  • Speak clearly so listeners can understand.
  • Write clearly so other people can understand.
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  • Listen to others and ask questions.
  • Understand written information.

Reason and Problem Solve

  • Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
  • Concentrate and not be distracted while performing a task.
  • Analyze ideas and use logic to determine their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Follow guidelines to arrange objects or actions in a certain order.
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  • Recognize the nature of a problem.

Manage Oneself, People, Time, and Things

  • Manage the time of self and others.
  • Go back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information without becoming confused.
  • Check how well one is learning or doing something.

Work with Things

  • Watch gauges, dials, and output to make sure a machine is working properly.
  • Operate and control equipment.

Perceive and Visualize

  • Quickly and accurately compare letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns.
  • Identify a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in distracting material.
  • Imagine how something will look if it is moved around or its parts are rearranged.
Source: Illinois Career Information System (CIS) brought to you by Illinois Department of Employment Security.