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.

• Positioning, aligning, fitting, and welding parts for forming completed units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
• Verifying conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
• Tacking or welding fitted parts together.
• Laying out and examining metal stocks or workpieces to be processed for ensuring that specifications are met.
• Aligning and fitting parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
• Locating and marking workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stocks thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
• Positioning or tightening braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolting straps, or bolting parts into their positions for welding or riveting.
• Studying engineering drawings and blueprints for determining materials requirements and task sequences.
• Moving parts into their positions, manually or with hoists or cranes.