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.

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.

• Tracing out short circuits in wiring, using testing meter.
• Measuring, cutting, and bending wire and conduit, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
• Maintaining tools, vehicles, and equipment and keep parts and supplies in order.
• Drilling holes and pulling or pushing wiring through openings, using hand and power tools.
• Performing semi skilled and unskilled laboring duties related to the installation, maintenance and repairing of a wide variety of electrical systems and equipment.
• Disassembling defective electrical equipment, replacing defective or worn parts, and reassembling equipment, using hand tools.
• Transporting tools, materials, equipment, and supplies to working site by hand, handtruck, or heavy, motorized truck.
• Examining electrical units for loose connections and broken insulation and tightening connections, using hand tools.
• Strip insulation from wire ends, using wire stripping pliers, and attaching wires to terminals for subsequent soldering.