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.

Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

• Identifying or address malfunctions of hydroelectric plants operational equipment, such as generators, transformers, or turbines.
• Monitoring hydroelectric power plants equipment operation and performance, adjusting to performance specifications, as necessary.
• Starting, adjusting, or stopping generating units, operating valves, gates, or auxiliary equipment in hydroelectric power generating plants.
• Communicating status of hydroelectric operating equipment to dispatchers or supervisors.
• Implementing loading or switching orders in hydroelectric plants, in accordance with specifications or instructions.
• Inspecting water powered electric generators or auxiliary equipment in hydroelectric plants for verifying proper operation or for determining maintenance or repairing needs.
• Installing or calibrating electrical or mechanical equipment, such as motors, engines, switchboards, relays, switch gears, meters, pumps, hydraulics, or flood channels.
• Maintaining logs, reports, working requests, or other records of working performed in hydroelectric plants.