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.

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.

• Setting ships’ courses that avoid reefs, outlying shoals, or other hazards, using navigational aids, such as lighthouses or buoys.
• Directing courses and speeds of ships, based on specialized knowledge of local winds, weather, water depths, tides, currents, and hazards.
• Steering ships into or out of berths or signaling tugboat captains to berth or unberth ships.
• Preventing ships under their navigational controlling from engaging in unsafe operations.
• Consulting maps, charts, weather reports, or navigation equipment for determining and directing ship movements.
• Giving directions to crew members who are steering ships.
• Maintaining ship logs.
• Serving as a vessel’s docking master upon arrival at a port or when at a berth.
• Operating ship to shore radios for exchanging information needed for ship operations.
• Providing assistance in maritime rescuing operations.
• Providing assistance to vessels approaching or leaving seacoasts, navigating harbors, or docking and undocking.