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Move materials, equipment, or supplies

Work activity · O*NET

Move materials, equipment, or supplies is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Performing General Physical Activities. 98 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Deliver items
  • Move materials, equipment, or supplies
  • Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas
  • Move construction or extraction materials to locations where they are needed
  • Transport biological or other medical materials
  • Move equipment, supplies or food to required locations
  • Move large objects using heavy equipment
  • Handle caskets

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 100.0% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 0.0% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 66.7% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 18th pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Funeral Attendants 6
Baggage Porters and Bellhops 4
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 4
Orderlies 4
Concierges 3
Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers 3
Embalmers 3
Library Technicians 3
Packers and Packagers, Hand 3
Conveyor Operators and Tenders 2
Couriers and Messengers 2
Crematory Operators 2
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 2
Fast Food and Counter Workers 2
Helpers--Electricians 2
Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons 2
Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters 2
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 2
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 2
Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants 2
Mechanical Door Repairers 2
Medical Equipment Preparers 2
Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers 2
Postal Service Mail Carriers 2
Riggers 2
Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders 1
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 1
Aircraft Service Attendants 1
Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment 1
Construction Laborers 1
Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria 1
Costume Attendants 1
Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1
Cutters and Trimmers, Hand 1
Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1
Desktop Publishers 1
Dishwashers 1
Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers 1
Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining 1
Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters 1

Showing 40 of 98 occupations.

Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 39 occupations in occupations that perform Move materials, equipment, or supplies.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons Dishwashers Construction Laborers Helpers--Electricians Embalmers Mechanical Door Repairers Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians Riggers Postal Service Mail Carriers Couriers and Messengers Baggage Porters and Bellhops Fast Food and Counter Workers Library Technicians Concierges Desktop Publishers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Move materials, equipment, or supplies., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Move materials, equipment, or supplies." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/move-materials-equipment-or-supplies

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Move materials, equipment, or supplies. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/move-materials-equipment-or-supplies

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-move-materials-equipment-or-supplies,
  title  = {Move materials, equipment, or supplies},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/move-materials-equipment-or-supplies}
}

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