Press console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulators or reject lines.

“Press console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulators or reject lines.” is a supplemental task performed by Conveyor Operators and Tenders. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 11th by importance (#13 most important). About 27% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Operate industrial processing or production equipment. in Controlling Machines and Processes

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T4.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Observe packages moving along conveyors to identify packages, detect defective packaging, and perform quality control. · importance 4.6
• Collect samples of materials or products, checking them to ensure conformance to specifications or sending them to laboratories for analysis. · importance 4.6
• Inform supervisors of equipment malfunctions that need to be addressed. · importance 4.5
• Position deflector bars, gates, chutes, or spouts to divert flow of materials from one conveyor onto another conveyor. · importance 4.5
• Observe conveyor operations and monitor lights, dials, and gauges to maintain specified operating levels and to detect equipment malfunctions. · importance 4.5
• Record production data such as weights, types, quantities, and storage locations of materials, as well as equipment performance problems and downtime. · importance 4.5
• Repair or replace equipment components or parts such as blades, rolls, and pumps. · importance 4.4
• Load, unload, or adjust materials or products on conveyors by hand, by using lifts, hoists, and scoops, or by opening gates, chutes, or hoppers. · importance 4.4
• Manipulate controls, levers, and valves to start pumps, auxiliary equipment, or conveyors, and to adjust equipment positions, speeds, timing, and material flows. · importance 4.3
• Stop equipment or machinery and clear jams, using poles, bars, and hand tools, or remove damaged materials from conveyors. · importance 4.3
• 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. · importance 4.3
• 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. · importance 4.3
• Clean, sterilize, and maintain equipment, machinery, and work stations, using hand tools, shovels, brooms, chemicals, hoses, and lubricants. · importance 4.2
• Affix identifying information to materials or products, using hand tools. · importance 4.2

See all tasks on the Conveyor Operators and Tenders page.

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.

@misc{singulariki-task-10764,
  title  = {Press console buttons to deflect packages to predetermined accumulators or reject lines.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-10764}
}