Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

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.

• Designing solar systems for pools with active or passive heating.
• Performing routine maintenance or repairs to restoring solar thermal systems to baseline operating conditions.
• Applying operation or identification tags or labels to system components, as required.
• Assessing collector sites for ensuring structural integrity of potential mounting surfaces or the best orientation and tilting for solar collectors.
• Connecting water heaters and storage tanks to power and water sources.
• Determining locations for installing solar subsystem components, including piping, water heaters, valves, and ancillary equipment.
• Filling water tanks and checking tanks, pipes, and fittings for leaks.
• Identifying plumbing, electrical, environmental, or safety hazards associated with solar thermal installations.
• Installing circulating pumps using pipe, fittings, soldering equipment, electrical supplies, and hand tools.
• Installing copper or plastic plumbing using pipes, fittings, pipe cutters, acetylene torches, solder, wire brushes, sand cloths, flux, plastic pipe cleaners, or plastic glues.