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.

• Repairing and maintaining automotive and drilling equipment, using hand tools.
• Observing and monitoring equipment operation during the extraction procedure for detecting any problems.
• Driving moving equipment for transporting materials and parts to excavation sites.
• Cleaning up working areas and removing all debris after the extraction activities are completed.
• Organizing materials and preparing them for using.
• Providing assistance to extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers and derrick operators.
• Dismantling extracting and boring equipment used for excavation, using hand tools.
• Unloading materials, devices, and machine parts, using hand tools.
• Loading materials into well holes or into equipment, using hand tools.
• Signaling workers for starting geological material extraction or boring.
• Cleaning and preparing sites for excavation or boring.
• Setting up and adjusting equipment used to excavate geological materials.
• Collecting and examining geological matter, using hand tools and testing devices.
• Digging trenches.