Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

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.

• Controlling traffic.
• Starting machine, engaging clutch, and pushing and moving levers for guiding machine along forms or guidelines and for controlling the operation of machine attachments.
• Inspecting, cleaning, maintaining, and repairing equipment, using mechanics’ hand tools, or reporting malfunctions to supervisors.
• Operating machines for spreading, smoothing, leveling, or steel reinforcing stone, concrete, or asphalt on the road beds.
• Operating oil distributors, loaders, chip spreaders, dumping trucks, and snow plows.
• Coordinating truck dumping.
• Setting up and tear down equipment.
• Operating tamping machines or manually roll surfaces to compact earth fills, foundation forms, and finished road materials, according to grades specifications.
• Shoveling blacktop.
• Driving machines onto truck trailers, and driving trucks for transporting machines and material to and from job sites.
• Observing the distribution of paving material for adjusting machine settings or material flow, and indicating low spots to the workers who are adding the material.