train driver
ISCO: 8311. Skills: 38. Essential: 24.
Essential skills
- act with a high level of safety awareness
- adjust weight of cargo to capacity of freight transport vehicles
- check train engines
- communicate with customers
- control train movement
- ensure maintenance of trains
- ensure trains run to schedule
- focus on passengers
- follow signalling instructions
- handle stressful situations in the work place
- locomotive brake applications
- mark differences in colours
- monitor train schedules
- passenger transport regulations
- physical characteristics of railways
- prepare freight shipment reports
- shunt inbound loads
- shunt outbound loads
- shunt rolling stock in marshalling yards
- stay alert
- teach train driving principles
- tolerate sitting for long periods
- track geometry
- train operating procedures
Supporting skills
- act reliably
- analyse reports provided by passengers
- customs regulations for passengers
- freight transport methods
- have computer literacy
- listen actively
- maintain updated professional knowledge
- mechanics of trains
- observe freight shipment loaders
- perform ICT troubleshooting
- perform services in a flexible manner
- react calmly in stressful situations
- relay messages through radio and telephone systems
- work in a rail transport team