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.

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.

• Pulling down loose rocks that cannot be supported.
• Performing safety checks on equipment before operating.
• Performing tests for determining the presence of methane gas.
• Performing ventilation tasks, such as hanging ventilation curtains and tubes.
• Dusting rocks after bolting.
• Installing various types of bolts including truss, glues, and resin bolts, for traversing entire ceiling spans.
• Drilling testing holes and testing bolts for specified tension, using torque wrenches.
• Drilling bolting holes into roofs at specified distances from ribs or adjacent bolts.
• Force bolts into holes, using hydraulic mechanisms of self-propelled bolting machines.
• Removing drill bits from chucks after drilling holes and inserting bolts into chucks.
• Positioning safety jacks for supporting underground mine roofs until bolts can be installed.