Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas.

Move products, materials, or equipment between work areas. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 19 occupations and seen in 19 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Move materials, equipment, or supplies. in Performing General Physical Activities .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 19 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 0 (0%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Participate in nuclear fuel element handling activities, such as preparation, transfer, loading, or unloading. · Nuclear Power Reactor Operators · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Place products on carts or conveyors to transfer them to the next stage of processing. · Food Batchmakers · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Load and unload equipment chambers and transport finished product to storage or to area for further processing. · Semiconductor Processing Technicians · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Place products on conveyors or carts, and monitor product flow. · Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Transfer materials, supplies, or products between work areas, using moving equipment or hand tools. · Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 4.2 · no direct exposure
• Move stock or scrap to and from machines manually, or by using carts, handtrucks, or lift trucks. · Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Move materials, supplies, components, and finished products between storage and work areas, using work aids such as racks, hoists, and handtrucks. · Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Transport materials and products to and from work areas, manually or using carts, handtrucks, or hoists. · Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders · importance 4.0 · no direct exposure
• Transport materials, supplies, and finished products between storage and work areas, using forklifts. · Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders · importance 3.9 · no direct exposure
• Transfer materials, supplies, and products between work areas, using moving equipment and hand tools. · Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Push racks or carts to transfer products to storage, cooling stations, or the next stage of processing. · Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure
• Obtain and move specified patterns to work stations, manually or using hoists, and secure patterns to machines, using wrenches. · Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure
• Transfer finished products, raw materials, tools, or equipment between storage and work areas of plants and warehouses, by hand or using hand trucks or powered lift trucks. · Helpers--Production Workers · importance 3.7 · no direct exposure
• Transport metal ingots to storage areas, using forklifts. · Pourers and Casters, Metal · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Transfer components, metal products, or assemblies, using moving equipment. · Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders · importance 3.6 · no direct exposure
• Transfer equipment, objects, or parts to specified work areas, using moving devices. · Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure
• Pack finished assemblies for shipment, and transport them to storage areas, using hoists or handtrucks. · Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers · importance 3.4 · no direct exposure
• Transport items to work or storage areas, using carts. · Cutters and Trimmers, Hand · importance 3.3 · no direct exposure
• Remove articles such as cabinets, metal furniture, and paint containers from stripping tanks after prescribed periods of time. · Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons · importance 2.9 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Nuclear Power Reactor Operators
• Food Batchmakers
• Semiconductor Processing Technicians
• Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders
• Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders
• Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders
• Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders
• Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
• Helpers--Production Workers
• Pourers and Casters, Metal
• Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
• Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
• Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers
• Cutters and Trimmers, Hand
• Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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