Skills & competences

Description

Drivers and mobile plant operators drive and tend trains and motor vehicles, or drive, operate and monitor industrial and agricultural machinery and equipment, or execute deck duties on board ship and other water-borne craft. Competent performance in most occupations in this sub-major group requires skills at the second ISCO skill level.
Tasks performed by workers in this sub-major group usually include: driving and tending trains and motor vehicles; driving, operating and monitoring mobile industrial and agricultural machinery and equipment; carrying out deck duties on board ship and other water-borne craft.
Occupations in this sub-major group are classified into the following minor groups:
831 Locomotive Engine Drivers and Related Workers
832 Car, Van and Motorcycle Drivers
833 Heavy Truck and Bus Drivers
834 Mobile Plant Operators
835 Ships’ Deck Crews and Related Workers