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.

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.

• Driving trucks for transporting crews, materials, and equipment.
• Communicating with supervisors and other workers, using equipment such as wireless phones, pagers, or radio telephones.
• Preparing and keep records of actions taken, including maintenance and repairing working.
• Operating sewer cleaning equipment, including power rodders, high velocity water jets, sewer flushers, bucket machines, wayne balls, and vac alls.
• Ensuring that repaired sewer line joints are tightly sealed before backfilling begins.
• Withdraw cables from pipes and examining them for evidence of mud, roots, grease, and other deposits indicating broken or clogged sewer lines.
• Installing rotary knives on flexible cables mounted on machine reels, according to the diameters of pipes to be cleaned.
• Measuring excavation sites, using plumbers’ snakes, tapelines, or lengths of cutting heads within sewers, and marking areas for digging.
• Locating problems, using specially designed equipment, and marking where digging must occur to reach damaged tanks or pipes.