National Occupational Classification for Statistics (NOC-S) 2006
- H - Trades, Transport and Equipment Operators and Related Occupations
- H8 - Trades Helpers, Construction and Transportation Labourers and Related Occupations
- H81 - Longshore Workers and Material Handlers
H812 - Material Handlers
This unit group includes workers who handle, move, load and unload materials by hand or using a variety of material handling equipment. They are employed by transportation, storage and moving companies, and by a variety of manufacturing and processing companies and retail and wholesale warehouses.
Example Titles
- ash handler
- attendant, used building materials yard
- automated storage and retrieval system operator
- automatic pallet equipment operator
- bandoleer packer - explosives manufacturing
- belt conveyor attendant
- beltman / woman
- bin attendant
- bin filler
- binman / woman
- box bander
- box filler
- boxcar loader
- bucket elevator operator
- bulk materials carrier operator
- bulk materials loader operator
- bulk materials unloader
- bundler, hand
- car loader, railway
- carrier operator, bulk materials
- cement loader and sacker
- coal conveyor operator
- coal conveyor operator - surface mining
- coal dumper
- coal handler
- coal loader-unloader
- coal wheeler
- coal-moving equipment operator
- conveyor belt attendant
- conveyor belt operator (except underground mines)
- conveyor belt patroller-controller
- conveyor console operator
- conveyor operator - material handling (except underground mines)
- conveyor operator, grain
- conveyor tender - material handling (except underground mines)
- cribber - grain elevator
- disposal worker - warehouse
- dockman / woman - truck transport
- dumper - material handling
- dumper - surface coal mining
- electric dolly operator
- electric mule operator
- electric truck operator
- explosives handler
- explosives packer
- express service handler (except air transport)
- facilities porter
- fats and oils loader
- feed mill loader
- forklift operator
- forklift truck operator
- freight car loader
- freight car unloader
- freight handler (except air transport)
- freight loader (except air transport)
- freight unloader (except air transport)
- furniture loader-unloader
- furniture mover
- glass cut-off machine unloader
- grain conveyor operator
- grain handler
- grain weigher
- hand bagger - material handling
- hand bundler
- hand packager
- hand packer, sacks - material handling
- hand sacker - material handling
- hand truck operator
- handler, explosives
- handler, freight (except air transport)
- handler, grain
- handler, heavy materials
- handler, light materials
- handler, materials
- handler, materials - manufacturing and warehousing
- handler, recycled paper
- heavy materials handler
- helper, stock
- helper, stock-keeper
- helper, warehouse keeper
- household goods mover
- industrial truck operator
- jack lift operator
- jigger operator, supermarket
- jitney driver - material handling
- labourer - material handling
- labourer - warehousing and storage
- lift driver
- lift jack operator
- lift scoop operator
- lift truck operator
- light materials handler
- liquids loader-unloader
- loader operator, bulk materials
- loader, fats and oils
- loader, freight (except air transport)
- loader, railway car
- loader, ready-mix trucks
- loader, tank trucks
- loader, trucks
- loader-unloader - material handling
- loader-unloader, furniture
- loader-unloader, liquids
- lumber handler - building supplies
- lumber piler - building supplies
- lumber stocker - material handling
- lumber unloader - material handling
- malthouse worker
- material handler
- material handler - manufacturing and warehousing
- Mobilift operator
- munitions handler
- operator, coal-moving equipment
- operator, conveyor - material handling (except underground mines)
- operator, conveyor belt (except underground mines)
- operator, forklift
- operator, forklift truck
- operator, grain conveyor
- operator, hand truck
- operator, lift truck
- operator, pallet lift
- operator, pallet truck
- operator, reach truck
- operator, stacker - material handling
- operator, straddle carrier
- operator, straddle truck
- operator, tier lift truck
- package lift operator
- packer - material handling
- pallet lift operator
- pallet loader operator
- pallet truck operator
- palletizer operator
- paper wrapper - material handling
- pick-up machine operator
- piler - material handling
- piler (except processing)
- pole distributor operator
- pole stacker operator
- porter, facilities
- power truck driver - material handling
- railway car loader
- reach truck operator
- ready-mix truck loader
- recycled paper handler
- sack packer, hand - material handling
- shingle piler - material handling
- shipment assembler
- skidder - fruit packing
- stacker - material handling
- stacker operator - material handling
- stacking machine operator - material handling
- stacking machine tender - material handling
- stock helper
- stock-keeper helper
- stockpiler
- storage man / woman
- storage worker - material handling
- straddle carrier operator
- straddle truck operator
- supermarket jigger operator
- tank truck loader
- tender, conveyor - material handling (except underground mines)
- tender, stacking machine - material handling
- tier lift truck operator
- tipman / woman - surface coal mining
- tow motor driver (except air transport)
- truck load weigher
- truck loader
- unloader, glass cut-off machine
- used building materials yard attendant
- van loader
- warehouse keeper helper
- warehouse worker - material handling
- warehouseman / woman
- warehouseperson
- weigher, truck loads
- wrapper, paper - material handling
- yard attendant, used building materials
Exclusion
- Persons that load or unload baggage or freight into or out of aircraft (See H737 Air Transport Ramp Attendants)
- Workers loading or unloading ships (See H811 Longshore Workers)
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