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.

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.

• Monitoring controlling panels during pumping operations for ensuring that materials are being pumped at the adequate pressure, density, rates, and concentration.
• Operating engines and pumps for shutting off wells according to production schedules, and for switching flow of oil into storage tanks.
• Performing routine maintenance on vehicles and equipment.
• Unloading and assembling pipes and pumping equipment, using hand tools.
• Attaching pumps and hoses to wellheads.
• Starting compressor engines and divert oil from storage tanks into compressor units and auxiliary equipment for recovering natural gas from oil.
• Opening valves for returning compressed gas to bottoms of specified wells to repressurize them and force oil to surface.
• Supervising oil pumpers and other workers engaged in producing oil from wells.
• Driving trucks for transporting high pressure pumping equipment, and chemicals, fluids, or gases to be pumped into wells.
• Controlling pumping and blending equipment to acidize, cement, or fracture gas or oil wells and permeable rock formations.