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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.2 - driving vehicles S8.2.3 - operating rail vehicles Operate switching locomotives
Description
Operate locomotives for switching, coupling and uncoupling rail cars for loading and unloading freight.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 2 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- Rail switchpersonRail switchpersons assist in the tasks of the traffic controller. They operate switches and signals according to rail traffic control instructions, according to regulations and com…
- ShunterShunters move shunting units with or without wagons or groups of wagons in order to build trains. They manage the driving of locomotives and are involved in switching wagons,…
Related skills
- Switching devices
- Follow switching instructions in rail operations
- Enforce railway safety regulations
- Shunt inbound loads
- Operate railway switches
- Shunt outbound loads
- Shunt rolling stock in marshalling yards
- Operate railway warning systems
- Perform rail track inspections
- Perform wagon coupling
- Physical characteristics of railways
- Signal box parts
- Test the braking force of trains
