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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.2 - driving vehicles S8.2.3 - operating rail vehicles Perform wagon coupling
Description
Performs wagon coupling in marshalling yards. Use coupler mechanisms to connect rolling stock in trains.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 1 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- 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
- Assess railway operations
- Assist in the movement of heavy loads
- Shunt rolling stock in marshalling yards
- Operate railway communication systems
- Operate radio equipment
- Electrical engineering
- Principles of mechanical engineering
- Rail infrastructure
- Follow switching instructions in rail operations
- Compare shipment contents with waybill
- Operate railway warning systems
- Operate switching locomotives
