Airline Ground Crew
OFO Code: 833304
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 833304
- Occupation
- Airline Ground Crew
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- ELEMENTARY OCCUPATIONS
- Unit group
- 8333 · Freight Handlers
Official description
Freight handlers carry out tasks such as packing, carrying, loading and unloading furniture and other household items, or loading and unloading ship and aircraft cargoes and other freight, or carrying and stacking goods in various warehouses.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Aircraft Handler, Aircraft Loader, Aircraft Baggage Handler
- Packing office or household furniture, machines, appliances and related goods to be transported from one place to another
- Carrying and stacking goods in warehouses and similar establishments
- Loading and unloading grain, coal, sand and similar goods by placing them on conveyor-belts, pipes, etc
- 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
- Carrying goods to be loaded on or unloaded from vans, trucks, wagons, ships, or aircraft
- Sorting cargo prior to loading and unloading
2. Demand status
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3. Salary evidence
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned