Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Preparing sketches of ideas, detailed drawings, illustrations, artwork, or blueprints, using drafting instruments, paints and brushes, or computer aided design equipment.
• Directing and coordinating the fabrication of models or samples and the drafting of working drawings and specification sheets from sketches.
• Modifying and refine designs, using working models, to conform with customer specifications, production limitations, or changes in design trends.
• Coordinating the look and function of product lines.
• Conferring with engineering, marketing, production, or sales departments, or with customers, to establishing and evaluating design concepts for manufactured products.
• Presenting designs and reports to customers or design committees for approval and discussing need for modification.
• Reading publications, attending shows, and studying the competing products and their designs’ styles as well as motifs for obtaining perspective and generating new designs and concepts.