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.

Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

• Collecting or preparing measurement, weight, or identification labels and attaching them to products.
• Documenting quantity, quality, types, weights, testing result data, and values of materials or products for maintaining shipping, receiving, and production records and files.
• Comparing product labels, tags, or tickets, shipping manifests, purchasing orders, and bills of lading for verifying accuracy of shipment contents, quality specifications, or weights.
• Communicating with customers and vendors for exchanging information regarding products, materials, and services.
• Computing product totals and charges for shipments.
• Unloading or unpacking incoming shipments.
• Operating scalehouse computers for obtaining weight information about incoming shipments such as those from waste haulers.
• Filling orders for products and samples, following order tickets, and forwarding or mail items.
• Sorting products or materials into predetermined sequences or groupings for display, packing, shipping, or storage.