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.

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.

• Adding specified amounts of chemicals to equipment at required times for maintaining solution levels and concentrations.
• Draining, cleaning, and refilling machines or tanks at designated intervals, using cleaning solutions or water.
• Measuring, weighing, or mixing cleaning solutions, using measuring tanks, calibrated rods or suction tubes.
• Drawing samples for laboratory analysis, or testing solutions for conformance to specifications, such as acidity or specific gravity.
• Observing machine operations, gauges, or thermometers, and adjusting controls for maintaining specified conditions.
• Setting controls to regulating temperature and length of cycles, and starting conveyors, pumps, agitators, and machines.
• Examining and inspecting machines for detecting malfunctions.
• Recording gauge readings, materials used, processing times, or testing results in production logs.
• Adjusting, cleaning, and lubricating mechanical parts of machines, using hand tools and grease guns.
• Loading machines with objects to be processed and unloading them after cleaning, placing them on conveyors or racks.