| 1. | Enforce safety rules and regulations. |
| 2. | Plan work assignments and equipment allocations in order to meet transportation, operations, or production goals. |
| 3. | Confer with customers, supervisors, contractors, and other personnel to exchange information and to resolve problems. |
| 4. | Direct workers in transportation or related services, such as pumping, moving, storing, and loading/unloading of materials or people. |
| 5. | Resolve worker problems, or collaborate with employees to assist in problem resolution. |
| 6. | Review orders, production schedules, blueprints, and shipping/receiving notices to determine work sequences and material shipping dates, types, volumes, and destinations. |
| 7. | Monitor field work to ensure that it is being performed properly and that materials are being used as they should be. |
| 8. | Recommend and implement measures to improve worker motivation, equipment performance, work methods, and customer services. |
| 9. | Maintain or verify records of time, materials, expenditures, and crew activities. |
| 10. | Interpret transportation and tariff regulations, shipping orders, safety regulations, and company policies and procedures for workers. |
| 11. | Explain and demonstrate work tasks to new workers, or assign workers to more experienced workers for further training. |
| 12. | Prepare, compile, and submit reports on work activities, operations, production, and work-related accidents. |
| 13. | Recommend or implement personnel actions such as employee selection, evaluation, and rewards or disciplinary actions. |
| 14. | Requisition needed personnel, supplies, equipment, parts, or repair services. |
| 15. | Plan and establish transportation routes. |
| 16. | Inspect or test materials, stock, vehicles, equipment, and facilities to ensure that they are safe, free of defects, and meet specifications. |
| 17. | Compute and estimate cash, payroll, transportation, personnel, and storage requirements. |
| 18. | Dispatch personnel and vehicles in respond to telephone or radio reports of emergencies. |
| 19. | Perform or schedule repairs and preventive maintenance of vehicles and other equipment. |
| 20. | Examine, measure, and weigh cargo or materials to determine specific handling requirements. |
| 21. | Provide workers with assistance in performing tasks such as coupling railroad cars or loading vehicles. |
| 22. | Drive vehicles or operate machines or equipment to complete work assignments or to assist workers. |