Maneuver stone blocks

Description

Place blocks of stone in the correct position of the machine bed using electric hoist, wooden blocks and wedges.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 4 occupations
  • Optional in 1 occupations
  • Total: 5 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)

Essential for

  • Stone planer
    Stone planers operate and maintain planing machines that are used for stone blocks and slabs finishing. They manipulate the stone and ensure that the required parameters are accord…
  • Stone driller
    Stone drillers operate the drilling machine that bores holes into stone blocks. They manipulate granit, sandstone, marble and slate according to specifications. Duties A stone dril…
  • Stone splitter
    Stone splitters operate and maintain machines that split stone. They manipulate stone into different forms such as blocks, cobbles, tiles and concrete products.  Duties Stone spli…
  • Mineral crushing operator
    Mineral crushing operators operate and monitor crushers and other machines to crush materials and minerals. They move stones to the crushers, fill the machines with minerals, monit…

Optional for

  • Lime kiln operator
    Lime kiln operators control equipment that burns limestone to produce lime or carbon dioxide. They control the flow of the materials, fuel, and air and observe the material flow,…

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Last updated on February 19, 2026

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