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.

• Recording details of repairs made and parts used.
• Reassembling machines and equipment following repairing, testing operation and making adjustments as necessary.
• Maintaining, repairing, and overhauling farm machinery and vehicles, such as tractors, harvesters, and irrigation systems.
• Examining and listening to equipment, reading inspection reports, and conferring with customers for locating and diagnosing malfunctions.
• Dismantling defective machines for repairing, using hand tools.
• Testing and replacing electrical components and wiring, using testing meters, soldering equipment, and hand tools.
• Repairing or replacing defective parts, using hand tools, milling and woodworking machines, lathes, welding equipment, grinders, or saws.
• Cleaning and lubricating parts.
• Tuning or overhauling engines.
• Driving trucks for hauling tools and equipment for on site repairing of large machinery.
• Fabricating new metal parts, using drill presses, engine lathes, and other machine tools.
• Installing and repairing agricultural irrigation, plumbing, and sprinkler systems.
• Repairing bent or torn sheet metal.