Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

• Administering first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation to injured persons.
• Searching burning buildings for locating fire victims.
• Driving and operating fire fighting vehicles and equipment.
• Moving toward the source of a fire, using knowledge of types of fires, construction design, building materials, and physical layout of properties.
• Positioning and climbing ladders for gaining access to upper levels of buildings, or for rescuing individuals from burning structures.
• Taking action for containing hazardous chemicals that might catch fire, leak, or spill.
• Assessing fires and situations and reporting conditions to superiors to receiving instructions, using two way radios.
• Responding to fire alarms and other calls for assistance, such as automobile and industrial accidents.
• Operating pumps connected to high pressure hoses.
• Selecting and attaching hose nozzles, depending on fire types, and directing streams of water or chemicals onto fires.
• Creating openings in buildings for ventilation or entrance, using axes, chisels, crowbars, electric saws, or core cutters.