About the role
- Verify tank car, barge, or truck load numbers to ensure car placement accuracy based on written or verbal instructions
- Observe positions of cars passing loading spouts, and swing spouts into the correct positions at the appropriate times
- Operate ship loading and unloading equipment, conveyors, hoists, and other specialized material handling equipment such as railroad tank car unloading equipment
- Monitor the products movement to and from storage tanks
- Coordinate activities with other workers to ensure constant product flow
- Record operating data such as products and quantities pumped, gauge readings, and operating times, manually or using computers
- Check conditions and weights of vessels to ensure cleanliness and compliance with loading procedures
- 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