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.

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.

• Recording production and testing data for each food product batch, such as the ingredients used, temperature, testing results, and time cycle.
• Observing gauges and thermometers for determining if the mixing chamber temperature is within specified limits, and turning valves for controlling the temperature.
• Cleaning and sterilizing vats and factory processing areas.
• Pressing switches and turning knobs for starting, adjusting, and regulating equipment, such as beaters, extruders, discharge pipes, and salt pumps.
• Observing and listening to equipment for detecting possible malfunctions, such as leaks or plugs, and reporting malfunctions or undesirable tastes to supervisors.
• Setting up, operating, and tending equipment that cooks, mixes, blends, or processes ingredients in the manufacturing of food products, according to formulas or recipes.
• Mixing or blending ingredients, according to recipes, using a paddle or an agitator, or by controlling vats for heating and mixing ingredients.
• Following recipes for producing food products of specified flavor, texture, clarity, bouquet, or color.