Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

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.

• Adjusting and operating surveying instruments such as prisms, theodolites, and electronic distance measuring equipment.
• Compiling information necessary to stake projects for construction, using engineering plans.
• Running rods for benches and cross section elevations.
• Positioning and holding the vertical rods, or targets, that theodolite operators using for sighting for measuring angles, distances, and elevations.
• Recording survey measurements and descriptive data, using notes, drawings, sketches, and inked tracings.
• Performing calculations for determining earth curvature corrections, atmospheric impacts on measurements, traversing closures and adjustments, azimuths, leveling runs, and placement of markers.
• Conducting surveys for ascertaining the locations of natural features and man made structures on the Earth’s surface, underground, and underwater, using electronic distance measuring equipment and other surveying instruments.
• Searching for section corners, property irons, and survey points.