Index
Intro
This unit group includes workers who handle, move, load and unload materials by hand or using a variety of material handling equipment. They are employed by transportation, storage and moving companies, and by a variety of manufacturing and processing companies and retail and wholesale warehouses.
Main Duties
Material handlers (manual) perform some or all of the following duties:
- Load, unload and move products and materials by hand or using basic material handling equipment
- Move household appliances and furniture onto and off moving trucks or vans
- Perform other material handling activities such as counting, weighing, sorting, packing and unpacking.
Material handlers (equipment operators) perform some or all of the following duties:
- Operate winches and other loading devices to load and unload materials onto and off trucks, railway cars and loading docks of warehouses and industrial establishments
- Operate industrial trucks, tractors, loaders and other equipment to transport materials to and from transportation vehicles and loading docks and to store and retrieve materials in warehouses
- Connect hoses or pipes and operate equipment to load and unload liquid petroleum, chemical or other products into or from tank cars, tank trucks or storage tanks
- Operate equipment to dump materials such as coal, ore and grain into or to remove materials from railway cars, trucks or other vehicles
- Operate conveyors and equipment to transfer grain or other materials from transportation vehicles to elevators, bins or other storage areas
- May perform other activities, such as opening containers and crates, filling warehouse orders, assisting in taking inventory and weighing and checking materials.
Employment Requirements
- Some secondary school education may be required.
- Physical strength is required for manual material handlers who work with heavy materials.
All Titles
- ash handler
- attendant, used building materials yard
- automated storage and retrieval system operator
- automatic pallet equipment operator
- bandoleer packer – explosives manufacturing
- belt conveyor attendant
- beltman/womanbeltman, beltwoman
- bin attendantbinman, binwoman
- bin filler
- binman/woman
- box bander
- box filler
- boxcar loader
- bucket elevator operator
- bulk materials carrier operator
- bulk materials loader operator
- bulk materials unloader
- bundler, hand
- car loader, railway
- carrier operator, bulk materials
- cement loader and sacker
- coal conveyor operator
- coal conveyor operator – surface mining
- coal dumper
- coal handler
- coal loader-unloader
- coal wheeler
- coal-moving equipment operator
- conveyor belt attendant
- conveyor belt operator (except underground mines)
- conveyor belt patroller-controller
- conveyor console operator
- conveyor operator – material handling (except underground mines)
- conveyor operator, grain
- conveyor tender – material handling (except underground mines)
- cribber – grain elevator
- disposal worker – warehouse
- dockman/woman – truck transportdockman – truck transport, dockwoman – truck transport
- dumper – material handling
- dumper – surface coal miningtipman – surface coal mining, tipwoman – surface coal mining
- electric dolly operator
- electric mule operator
- electric truck operator
- explosives handler
- explosives packer
- express service handler (except air transport)
- fats and oils loader
- feed mill loader
- forklift operator
- forklift truck operator
- freight car loader
- freight car unloader
- freight handler (except air transport)
- freight loader (except air transport)
- freight unloader (except air transport)
- furniture loader-unloader
- furniture mover
- glass cut-off machine unloader
- grain conveyor operator
- grain handler
- grain weigher
- hand bagger – material handling
- hand bundler
- hand packager
- hand packer, sacks – material handling
- hand sacker – material handling
- hand truck operator
- handler, explosives
- handler, freight (except air transport)
- handler, grain
- handler, heavy materials
- handler, light materials
- handler, materials
- handler, materials – manufacturing and warehousing
- handler, recycled paper
- heavy materials handler
- helper, stock
- helper, stock-keeper
- helper, warehouse keeper
- household goods mover
- industrial truck operator
- jack lift operator
- jigger operator, supermarket
- jitney driver – material handling
- labourer – material handling
- labourer – warehousing and storage
- lift driver
- lift jack operator
- lift scoop operator
- lift truck operator
- light materials handler
- liquids loader-unloader
- loader operator, bulk materials
- loader, fats and oils
- loader, freight (except air transport)
- loader, railway car
- loader, ready-mix trucks
- loader, tank trucks
- loader, trucks
- loader-unloader – material handling
- loader-unloader, furniture
- loader-unloader, liquids
- lumber handler – building supplies
- lumber piler – building supplies
- lumber stocker – material handling
- lumber unloader – material handling
- malthouse worker
- material handler
- material handler – manufacturing and warehousing
- Mobilift operator
- munitions handler
- operator, coal-moving equipment
- operator, conveyor – material handling (except underground mines)
- operator, conveyor belt (except underground mines)
- operator, forklift
- operator, forklift truck
- operator, grain conveyor
- operator, hand truck
- operator, lift truck
- operator, pallet lift
- operator, pallet truck
- operator, reach truck
- operator, stacker – material handling
- operator, straddle carrier
- operator, straddle truck
- operator, tier lift truck
- package lift operator
- packer – material handling
- pallet lift operator
- pallet loader operator
- pallet truck operator
- palletizer operator
- paper wrapper – material handling
- pick-up machine operator
- piler – material handling
- piler (except processing)
- pole distributor operator
- pole stacker operator
- power truck driver – material handling
- railway car loader
- reach truck operator
- ready-mix truck loader
- recycled paper handler
- sack packer, hand – material handling
- shingle piler – material handling
- shipment assembler
- skidder – fruit packing
- stacker – material handling
- stacker operator – material handling
- stacking machine operator – material handling
- stacking machine tender – material handling
- stock helper
- stock-keeper helper
- stockpiler
- storage man/womanstorage man, storage woman, warehouseman, warehousewoman
- storage worker – material handling
- straddle carrier operator
- straddle truck operator
- supermarket jigger operator
- tank truck loader
- tender, conveyor – material handling (except underground mines)
- tender, stacking machine – material handling
- tier lift truck operator
- tipman/woman – surface coal mining
- tow motor driver (except air transport)
- truck load weigher
- truck loader
- unloader, glass cut-off machine
- used building materials yard attendant
- van loader
- warehouse keeper helper
- warehouse worker – material handling
- warehouseman/woman
- warehouseperson
- weigher, truck loads
- wrapper, paper – material handling
- yard attendant, used building materials
Exclusions
- Freight attendants (See 7534 Air transport ramp attendants)
- Heavy equipment operators (except crane) (7521)
- Longshore workers (7451)
- Mover helpers (See 7622 Railway and motor transport labourers)
- Storekeepers and partspersons (1522)
- Supervisors of material handlers (See 7302 Contractors and supervisors, heavy equipment operator crews)
- Warehouse supervisors (See 1215 Supervisors, supply chain, tracking and scheduling co-ordination occupations)