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.

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.

• Arranging for hauling of logs to appropriate mill sites.
• Evaluating timber characteristics and determining grades, using established criteria.
• Recording data about individual trees or loading volumes into tally books or hand held collection terminals.
• Painting identification marks of specified colors on logs for identifying grades or species, using spraying cans, or calling out grades to timber markers.
• Measuring felled logs or loads of pulpwood for calculating volume, weight, dimensions, and marketable value, using measuring devices and conversion tables.
• Measuring timber lengths and marking boles for bucking into logs, according to specifications.
• Identifying logs of substandard or special grades so that they can be returned to shippers, regraded, recut, or transferred for other processing.
• Jabbing logs with metal ends of scale sticks, and inspecting logs for ascertaining characteristics or defects such as water damage, splits, knots, broken ends, rotten areas, twists, and curves.