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.

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.

• Assembling and installing components of timepieces for completing mechanisms, using watchmakers’ tools and loupes.
• Observing operation of timepiece parts and subassemblies for determining accuracy of movement, and for diagnosing causes of defects.
• Testing operation and fitting of timepiece parts and subassemblies, using electronic testing equipment, tweezers, watchmakers’ tools, and loupes.
• Replacing specified parts for repairing malfunctioning timepieces, using watchmakers’ tools, loupes, and holding fixtures.
• Disassembling timepieces such as watches, clocks, and chronometers so that repairs can be made.
• Cleaning and lubricating timepiece parts and assemblies, using solvents, buff sticks, and oil.
• Examining components of timepieces such as watches, clocks, or chronometers for defects, using loupes or microscopes.
• Bending parts, such as hairsprings, pallets, barrel covers, and bridges, for correcting deficiencies in truing or endshake, using tweezers.
• Changing timing weights on balanced wheels for correcting deficient timing.