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.

• Assembling, installing, repairing, and maintaining elevators, escalators, moving sidewalks, and dumbwaiters, using hand and power tools, and testing devices such as testing lamps, ammeters, and voltmeters.
• Testing newly installed equipment for ensuring that it meets specifications, such as stopping at floors for setting amounts of time.
• Locating malfunctions in brakes, motors, switches, and signaling and controlling systems, using testing equipment.
• Checking that safety regulations and building codes are met, and completing service reports verifying conformance to standards.
• Connecting electrical wiring for controlling panels and electric motors.
• Adjusting safety controls, counterweights, door mechanisms, and components such as valves, ratchets, seals, and brake linings.
• Reading and interpreting blueprints for determining the layout of system components, frameworks, and foundations, and for selecting installation equipment.