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Assembly line worker — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Electrical and Electronic Equipment Assemblers · Engine and Other Machine Assemblers · Electromechanical Equipment Assemblers · Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers · Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians · Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians · Industrial Machinery Mechanics · Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
In the official classification#
Team Assemblers
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 1–2: very little to some preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 51-2092.00 (Team Assemblers). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Quality Control AnalysisImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- InstructingImportant
- Operations MonitoringImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- Operation and ControlImportant
Knowledge
- Production and ProcessingVery important
- MechanicalVery important
- Public Safety and SecurityVery important
- English LanguageImportant
- Education and TrainingImportant
- Computers and ElectronicsImportant
Work activities
- Getting InformationVery important
- Handling and Moving ObjectsVery important
- Monitoring Processes, Materials, or SurroundingsVery important
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and EventsVery important
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or MaterialsVery important
- Controlling Machines and ProcessesVery important
Abilities
- Manual DexterityVery important
- Information OrderingImportant
- Finger DexterityImportant
- Near VisionImportant
- Oral ComprehensionImportant
- Problem SensitivityImportant
Essential skills
- Active ListeningImportant
- MonitoringImportant
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Critical ThinkingImportant
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 3 backed by a verified event, 2 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.