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.

• Maintaining job records and scheduling working crew.
• Studying blueprints and diagrams for determining dimensions of structure or forms to be constructed.
• Measuring materials or distances, using square, measuring tape, or rulers for laying out working.
• Cutting or sawing the boards, timbers, or plywood to required size, using handsaws, power saws, or woodworking machines.
• Assembling and fastening material together for constructing wood or metal framework of structure, using bolts, nails, or screws.
• Anchoring and bracing forms and other structures in place, using nails, bolts, anchoring rods, steel cables, planks, wedges, and timbers.
• Marking cutting lines on materials, using pencil and scriber.
• Erecting forms, framework, scaffolds, hoists, roof supports, or chutes, using hand tools, plumb rulers, and levels.
• Installing rough door and window frames, subflooring, fixtures, or temporary supports in structures undergoing construction or repairing.
• Examining structural timbers and supports for detecting decay, and replacing timbers as required, using hand tools, nuts, and bolts.