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.

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.

• Observing machine operations for ensuring quality and conformity of filled or packaged products to standards.
• Adjusting machine components and machine tension and pressure according to size or processing angle of product.
• Tending or operating machine that packages product.
• Removing finished packaged items from machine and separating rejected items.
• Regulating machine flow, speed, or temperature.
• Stopping or reset machines when malfunctions occur, clearing machine jams, and reporting malfunctions to a supervisor.
• Securing finished packaged items by hand tying, sewing, gluing, stapling, or attaching fastener.
• Stocking and sorting product for packaging or filling machine operation, and replenish packaging supplies, such as wrapping paper, plastic sheet, boxes, cartons, glues, inks, or labels.
• Inspecting and removing defective products and packaging material.
• Cleaning and removing damaged or otherwise inferior materials to preparing raw products for processing.