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.

• Collecting samples, or signaling workers for sampling metal for analysis.
• Pouring and regulating the flow of molten metal into molds and forms for producing ingots or other castings, using ladles or hand controlled mechanisms.
• Reading temperature gauges and observing color changes, adjusting furnace flames, torches, or electrical heating units as necessary for melting metal to specifications.
• Examining molds for ensuring they are cleaning, smoothing, and properly coated.
• Positioning equipment such as ladles, grinding wheels, pouring nozzles, or crucibles, or signaling other workers for positioning equipment.
• Skimming slag or removing excess metal from ingots or equipment, using hand tools, strainers, rakes, or burners, collecting scrap for recycling.
• Turning valves to circulate water through cores, or spraying water on filled molds for cooling and solidify metal.
• Adding metal to molds for compensating for shrinkage.
• Pulling levers for lifting ladle stoppers and to allow molten steel to flow into ingot molds to specified heights.