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.

Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

• Building product subassemblies or final assemblies.
• Monitoring and adjusting production processes or equipment for quality and productivity.
• Preparing and assembling materials.
• Setting up and operating production equipment in accordance with current good manufacturing practices and standard operating procedures.
• Assisting engineers in developing, building, or testing prototypes or new products, processes, or procedures.
• Building packaging for finished products.
• Calibrating or adjusting equipment for ensuring quality production, using tools such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, protractors, or ring gauges.
• Inspecting finished products for quality and adherence to customer specifications.
• Maintaining inventory of job materials.
• Packaging finished products.
• Planning and laying out working to meet production and scheduling requirements.
• Preparing production documents, such as standard operating procedures, manufacturing batch records, inventory reports, or productivity reports.