Occupational Employment Statistics
53-7011 Conveyor Operators and Tenders
Control or tend conveyors or conveyor systems that move materials or products to and from stockpiles, processing stations, departments, or vehicles. May control speed and routing of materials or products.
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Minnesota
| 390 | 81 | $20.22/hr | $16.90/hr | $17.86/hr | $18.15/hr | $20.62/hr | $27.52/hr |
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U S
| 24,660 | 641 | $21.58/hr | $16.48/hr | $17.75/hr | $19.75/hr | $23.64/hr | $30.13/hr |
| Trade, Transportation and Utilities | 360 | $18.14/hr |
| Financial Activities | N/A | N/A |
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Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
| 3,190 | $24.23/hr | 3.5% |
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Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
| 2,280 | $24.85/hr | -5.6% |
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Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers
| 120 | $42.91/hr | 1.4% |
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Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
| 790 | $28.57/hr | -4.6% |
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Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
| 54,740 | $22.28/hr | 6.7% |
- Collect samples of materials or products, checking them to ensure conformance to specifications or sending them to laboratories for analysis.
- Read production and delivery schedules, and confer with supervisors, to determine sorting and transfer procedures, arrangement of packages on pallets, and destinations of loaded pallets.
- Operate elevator systems in conjunction with conveyor systems.
- Clean, sterilize, and maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants.
- Weigh or measure materials and products, using scales or other measuring instruments, or read scales on conveyors that continually weigh products, to verify specified tonnages and prevent overloads.
- Measure dimensions of bundles, using rulers, and cut battens to required sizes, using power saws.
- Affix identifying information to materials or products, using hand tools.
- Record production data such as weights, types, quantities, and storage locations of materials, as well as equipment performance problems and downtime.
- Position deflector bars, gates, chutes, or spouts to divert flow of materials from one conveyor onto another conveyor.
- Load, unload, or adjust materials or products on conveyors by hand, by using lifts, hoists, and scoops, or by opening gates, chutes, or hoppers.