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.

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.

• Monitoring transit areas and conducting security checks for protecting railroad properties, patrons, and employees.
• Enforcing traffic laws regarding the transit system, and reprimanding individuals violating them.
• Providing training to the public or law enforcement personnel in railroad safety or security.
• Patrolling railroad yards, cars, stations, or other facilities for protecting company property or shipments and for maintaining order.
• Examining credentials of unauthorized persons attempting trespassing secured areas.
• Apprehending or removing trespassers or thieves from railroad property or coordinating with law enforcement agencies in apprehensions and removals.
• Preparing reports documenting investigation activities and results.
• Investigating or directing investigations of freight theft, suspicious damage or loss of passengers’ valuables, or other crimes on railroad property.
• Directing security activities at derailments, fires, floods, or strikes involving railroad property.
• Directing or coordinating the daily activities or training of security staff.