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Stevedore

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Dock labourer Dock worker Longshoreman Ship freight handler Stevedore

Stevedores sort, handle, load and unload freight into over-the-road equipment in accordance with oral and written instructions, as well as state regulations. they move freight such as boxes, bulky items, or even large pallets of goods to and from storage areas and onto transport vehicles.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Packing office or household furniture, machines, appliances and related goods to be transported from one place to another;
(b) Carrying goods to be loaded on or unloaded from vans, trucks, wagons, ships or aircraft;
(c) Loading and unloading grain, coal, sand, baggage and other items by placing them on conveyor belts, pipes and other conveyances;
(d) Connecting hoses between main shore installation pipes and tanks of barges, tankers and other ships to load and unload petroleum, liquefied gases and other liquids;
(e) Carrying and stacking goods in warehouses and similar establishments;
(f) Sorting cargo prior to loading and unloading.

Knowledge

  • Transport services
  • Law
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Wholesale and retail sales
  • Motor vehicles, ships and aircraft

Digital competencies

  • Operating lifting or moving equipment
  • Loading and unloading goods and, materials
  • Operating rail vehicles
  • Moving or lifting materials, equipment, or supplies
  • Analysing business operations

Digital competencies

  • Using digital tools to control machinery
  • Accessing and analysing digital data

Personal competencies

  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Working efficiently
  • Maintaining a positive attitude
  • Demonstrating willingness to learn

Professional groups of the occupation

Technicians and associate professionals

Science and engineering associate professionals

Physical and engineering science technicians

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

13.518

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

20,66%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

2,35% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

38,25%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

42,61%

Part-time contracts

1,46% Turnover index

8.984

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-2%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Science and engineering associate professionals

68%

32%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Science and engineering associate professionals

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Physical and engineering science technicians

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
15%
Between 1 and 2 years
15%
Between 2 and 4 years
39%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
16%
Manufacturing
32%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
28%
Information and communication
9%
Administrative and support service activities
8%
Education
7%
Others
16%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.