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.

• Monitoring workers for ensuring that all safety regulations are followed, warning or disciplining those violating the safety regulations.
• Planning or scheduling logging operations, such as felling or bucking trees or grading, sorting, yarding, or loading logs.
• Changing logging operations or methods for eliminating unsafe conditions.
• Monitoring logging operations for identifying and solving problems, improving working methods, and ensuring compliance with safety, company, and government regulations.
• Training workers in tree felling or bucking, operation of tractors or loading machines, yarding or loading techniques, or safety regulations.
• Determining logging operation methods, crew sizes, or equipment requirements, conferring with mill, company, or forestry officials as necessary.
• Assigning to workers duties such as trees to be cutting, cutting sequences and specifications, or loading of trucks, railcars, or rafts.
• Supervising or coordinating the activities of workers engaged in logging operations or silvicultural operations.