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.

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.

• Installing and maintaining visual landing aids.
• Testing and maintaining launch and recovery equipment using electric and mechanical testing equipment and hand tools.
• Activating airfield arresting systems, such as crash barriers and cables, during emergency landing situations.
• Directing aircraft launch and recovery operations using hand or light signals.
• Maintaining logs of airplane launches, recoveries, and equipment maintenance.