Material Moving Workers, All Other

Mixed — a routine tier and a judgment tier. Clearing a jammed chute by hand, re-slinging an awkward load that won't sit on a pallet, or shifting product through a plant whose aisles were laid out in 1962 are all still cheaper to do with a person than to engineer around — but the repetitive half of the day (feeding a conveyor at fixed intervals, cycling totes between two fixed stations) is exactly what AMRs and palletizing cells already do at scale, which is why this sits at 13 and not 17.

Hands-on in uncontrolled environments. The whole job is body: lifting, pushing, walking loads across uneven ground, dust, cold storage, ports and construction laydown yards where the surface changes weekly and there is no fixed fixture to bolt a robot to — 16 rather than 20 only because a good share of these workers are inside a warehouse with a roof and a concrete floor.

No licence, no signature requirement. Nothing here requires a state licence — a powered industrial truck operator needs OSHA 1910.178(l) employer-provided training and rigging may need a qualified-person sign-off, but the employer owns that certification and the employer eats the citation, so there is no personal credential standing between you and replacement.

Anonymous artifact production. The product of this work is a load in the right place at the right time; the receiving supervisor cares that the pallet is staged and undamaged, not who staged it, and there is no external customer who would follow you to another employer.

Executes defined procedures on defined inputs. Sequencing, routing and lift decisions run off pick tickets, load plans, tag weights and posted capacity charts, and anything genuinely ambiguous — an unstable stack, an overweight lift, a damaged sling — is escalated to a lead or rigging supervisor rather than called by you, which is a 4 rather than a 10.