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.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Positioning jacks, timbers, or roof supports, and installing casings, for preventing cave ins.
• Repositioning machines and moving controls for making additional holes or cuts.
• Cutting entries between rooms and haulage ways.
• Observing indicator lights and gauges, and listening to machine operation for detecting binding or stoppage of tools or other equipment problems.
• Replacing worn or broken tools and machine bits and parts, using wrenches, pry bars, and other hand tools, and lubricating machines, using grease guns.
• Pressing buttons for activating conveyor belts, and pushing or pulling chain handles to regulating conveyor movement so that material can be moved or loaded into dinkey cars or dumping trucks.
• Moving planer levers for controlling and adjusting the movement of equipment, the speed, height, and depth of cuts, and for rotating swivel cutting booms.
• Cutting slots along working faces of coal, salt, or other non metal deposits for facilitating blasting, by moving levers for starting the machine, and for controlling the vertical reciprocating drills.