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.

• Depressing pedals for rotating drums, and wind specified numbers of plies around drums for forming tire bodies.
• Starting rollers for bonding tread and plies as drums revolve.
• Activating bead setters that press prefabricated beads onto plies.
• Cutting plies at splice points, and pressing ends together for forming continuous bands.
• Aligning treads with guides, starting drums to wind treads onto plies, and slicing ends.
• Positioning rollers for turning ply edges under and over beads, or using steel rods for turning ply edges.
• Positioning ply stitcher rollers and drums according to width of stocks, using hand tools and gauges.
• Building semi raw rubber treads onto buffed tire casings to preparing tires for vulcanization in recapping or retreading processes.
• Wind chafers and breakers onto plies.
• Pulling plies from supplying racks, and aligning plies with edges of drums.
• Rolling camelbacks onto casings by hand, and cutting camelbacks, using knives.
• Cleaning and paint completed tires.
• Placing inner tubes and final layers of rubber onto tires.