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.

• Removing pieces of stone from larger masses, using jackhammers, wedges, and other tools.
• Inserting wedges and feathers into holes, and driving wedges with sledgehammers for splitting stone sections from masses.
• Marking dimensions or outlines on stone prior to cutting, using rules and chalk lines.
• Cutting slabs of stone into sheets that will be used for floors or counters.