Stevedore
Code 9333.6
Stevedores sort, handle, load and unload freight into over-the-road equipment in accordance with oral and written instructions, as well as state regulations. They move freight such as boxes, bulky items, or even large pallets of goods to and from storage areas and onto transport vehicles.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- vehicle cargo capacity
- loading charts for transportation of goods
- laws on the transportation of dangerous goods
- safety regulations for warehouses
- international regulations for cargo handling
- national regulations on handling cargo
- warehouse operations
- ramp safety requirements
Skills and competences
- store warehouse goods
- analyse relation between supply chain improvement and profit
- apply techniques for stacking goods into containers
- ensure that shipment contents correspond with shipping documentation
- accommodate cargo in freight transport vehicle
- shunt outbound loads
- mark differences in colours
- assess trim of vessels
- assess stability of vessels
- handle intermodal equipment
- lift heavy weights
- operate forklift
- manoeuvre heavy trucks
- operate material handling equipment
- operate on-board computer systems
- operate voice picking systems
- organise weight of loads according to lifting equipment capacity
- perform defensive driving
- conduct routine machinery checks
- climb on railcars
- work on uneven surfaces
- relay messages through radio and telephone systems
- shunt inbound loads
- use ICT systems
Transversal competences
- analyse supply chain strategies
- keep time accurately
- show confidence
- perform services in a flexible manner
- tolerate stress
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