Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders

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Description Operate or tend a variety of machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts.

Alternate titles

Anchor Operator
Anchorer
Ankle Patch Molder
Apron Trimmer
Arch Cushion Press Operator
Archer
Back Closer
Back Stayer
Back Strip Machine Operator
Back Wedger
Barrer
Bed Laster
Bed Machine Operator
Binding Dyer
Binding Stitcher
Block Hand
Block Out Machine Operator
Bobbin Winder
Boot Maker
Boot Trimmer

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Bottom Cementer
Bottom Filler
Bottom Finisher
Bottom Painter
Bottom Polisher
Bottom Sprayer
Bow Machine Operator
Box Toe Maker
Breaster
Brushing Machine Operator
Buckle Attacher
Buckle Sewer
Buckler
Burnisher
Burnishing Machine Operator
Button Sewer
Caser
Cementer
Channel Cementer
Channel Layer
Channel Lip Wetter
Channel Opener
Channel Turner
Channeler
Channeling Machine Operator
Closer
Cobbler
Concaver
Cookie Padder
Cordwainer
Counter Cutter
Counter Former
Counter Maker
Counter Molder
Counter Roller
Counter Stacker
Counter Stitcher
Cripple Chaser
Cripple Cutter
Cripple Worker
Crowner
Cushion Sewer
Cut Out Machine Operator
Cut Out Operator
Cut Out Stitcher
Cut To Length Operator
Deskidding Machine Operator
Die Out Worker
Die Press Operator
Die Trimmer
Double Head Machine Operator
Double Needle Operator
Double Needle Stitcher
Dyeing Out Machine Operator
Dyer
Edge Blacker
Edge Brusher
Edge Burnisher
Edge Cutter
Edge Drummer
Edge Finisher
Edge Molder
Edge Setter
Edge Stainer
Edge Trimmer
Embosser
Eyelet Machine Operator
Eyelet Maker
Eyelet Operator
Eyeletter
Faker
Fancy Needleworker
Fancy Stitcher
Fastener
Feather Edger
Featherer
Finishing Area Operator
Finishing Trimmer
Flamer
Flat Lock Machine Operator
Flat Lock Operator
Flesher
Folder Machine Operator
Form Maker
Foxing Closer
French Binder
French Cord Binder
French Folder
French Folding Machine Operator
Fudger
Fur Finisher
Fur Machine Operator
Fur Operator
Fur Sewer
Gang Punch Operator
Goodyear Stitcher
Goodyear Welter
Gore Cutter
Gore Stitcher
Gouger
Groover
Groover Operator
Groover Runner
Grooving Machine Operator
Half Backer
Half Sole Fitter
Heel Attacher
Heel Blacker
Heel Breaster
Heel Builder
Heel Burnisher
Heel Caser
Heel Cementer
Heel Compressor
Heel Coverer
Heel Coverer Machine Operator
Heel Curver
Heel Cutter
Heel Dipper
Heel Gouger
Heel Gummer
Heel Layer
Heel Nailing Machine Operator
Heel Padder
Heel Painter
Heel Pricker
Heel Sander
Heel Scourer
Heel Seat Fitter
Heel Seat Laster
Heel Seater
Heel Sewer
Heel Shaper
Heel Shaver
Heel Slugger
Heel Sprayer
Heel Stainer
Heel Stiffener
Heel Trimmer
Heel Turner
Heel Varnisher
Heeler
Hooker
Inker
Innersole Fitter
Innersole Maker
Inseam Trimmer
Inseamer
Insole Beveler
Insole Cementer
Insole Department Worker
Insole Doubler
Insole Lip Turner
Insole Presser
Insole Reinforcer
Insole Rounder
Insole Stiffener
Insole Tacker
Job Setter
Joint Cutter
Jollier
Label Sewer
Lacer
Lacing Operator
Lacing String Cutter
Lapper
Last Chalker
Last Picker
Last Puller
Last Trimmer
Laster
Lasting Machine Operator
Lasting Room Machine Operator
Leather Softener
Leveler
Lining Caser
Lining Cleaner
Lining Closer
Lining Layer
Lining Stitcher
Lip Cutter
Machine Fancy Stitcher
Machine Feed Operator
Machine Lacer
Machine Operator
Machine Sewer
Machine Splitter
Machine Stitcher
Machine Tender
Marking Machine Operator
Match Marker
Matcher
Mold Insert Changer
Mold Laminator
Multi Needle Machine Operator
Nailer
Nailer Operator
Nailhead Operator
Nailing Machine Operator
Naumkeag Operator
Needleworker
Nicker
Novelty Maker
Offal Roller
Offal Trimmer
Operator
Ornament Stitcher
Orthopedic Shoe Maker
Outside Cutter
Outsole Caser
Outsole Cementer
Outsole Compressor
Outsole Handler
Outsole Rounder
Outsole Splicer
Overcaster
Overedge Machine Operator
Overedger
Overlock Operator
Overlocker
Overseamer
Perforating Machine Operator
Pinking Machine Operator
Piper
Plug Paster
Pounder
Power Hammer Operator
Prick Stitcher
Pricker
Pull Over Machine Operator
Puller Over
Pump Stitcher
Quarter Backer
Quarter Seamer
Rand Cementer
Rand Maker
Rand Tacker
Rasper Machine Operator
Relaster
Roll Operator
Roller Stitcher
Rough Rounder
Rougher Machine Operator
Rounder
Sample Stitcher
Scalloper
Scarfer
Seam Closer
Seam Rubber
Seam Sewer
Seam Stayer
Seamer
Seamer Operator
Seat Nailer
Shank Archer
Shank Breaker
Shank Burnisher
Shank Cutter
Shank Faker
Shank Maker
Shank Rander
Shank Scourer
Shank Stapler
Shank Taper
Shanker
Shoe Associate
Shoe Caser
Shoe Cementer
Shoe Cleaner
Shoe Coverer
Shoe Dresser
Shoe Fitter
Shoe Folder
Shoe Lacer
Shoe Laster
Shoe Lining Fitter
Shoe Maker
Shoe Puller
Shoe Reconditioner
Shoe Sewing Machine Operator
Shoe Sewing Machine Tender
Shoe Shanker
Shoe Sprayer
Shoe Stainer
Shoe Stamper
Shoe Stitcher
Shoe Treer
Shoe Trimmer
Shoe Turner
Shoe Worker
Side Laster
Single Needle Operator
Size Marker
Size Painter
Skin Washer
Skiver
Skiving Machine Operator
Slipper Maker
Slugger
Sock Liner
Sole Blacker
Sole Buffer
Sole Cementer
Sole Conditioner
Sole Conforming Machine Operator
Sole Cutter
Sole Filler
Sole Inker
Sole Layer
Sole Leveler
Sole Molder
Sole Painter
Sole Polisher
Sole Ruffer
Sole Scraper
Sole Seamer
Sole Skiver
Sole Splitter
Sole Stainer
Sole Tacker
Sole Tier
Sole Trimmer
Soler
Special Machine Stitcher
Stamper
Stamping Machine Operator
Standard Machine Stitcher
Stay Cutter
Stayer
Stitch Bonding Machine Tender
Stitch Burnisher
Stitch Cleaner
Stitch Marker
Stitch Rubber
Stitch Separator
Stitch Wheeler
Stitcher
Stitching Machine Operator
Stock Fitter
Stock Letterer
Stock Wetter
Stocklayer
Stoner
Strap Buckler
Strap Maker
Strap Sewer
String Laster
Suede Brusher
Sueding Machine Operator
Tack Puller
Tacker
Tape Controlled Machine Stitcher
Thread Laster
Tip Finisher
Tip Fixer
Tip Mender
Tip Puncher
Tip Scourer
Toe Former
Toe Laster
Toe Trimmer
Tongue Binder
Tongue Stitcher
Top Closer
Top Lift Compressor
Top Lift Scourer
Top Lifter
Top Spotter
Top Stitcher
Tracer
Treer
Trimmer Machine Operator
Trimming Caser
Trimming Machine Operator
Truer
Turn Laster
Turn Sewer
Under Trimmer
Uniformer
Upper Caser
Upper Doubler
Upper Stitcher
Upper Tier
Vamp Creaser
Vamp Cut Out Worker
Vamp Liner
Vamp Maker
Vamp Marker
Vamp Seamer
Vamp Throater
Vamper
Vulcanizer
Vulcanizing Machine Operator
Vulcanizing Press Operator
Wedger
Welt Beater
Welt Maker
Welt Rander
Welt Sewer
Welt Slasher
Welt Stitch Cleaner
Welt Stitcher
Welt Wheeler
Wheeler
Wicker
Width Stripper
Wood Heel Back Liner
Wool Brusher
Zigzag Stitcher
Zigzagger

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Mwayene ya lifuti ya ngonga moko $18.6 - $23.01 ($38,680 - $47,860 annually)*

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A day in the life

Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).

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Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: 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.
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
Performing General Physical Activities: Performing general physical activities includes doing 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.
Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment: 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.
Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
Communicating with People Outside the Organization: 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.
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.

Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.

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Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
Independence: Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.
Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
Analytical Thinking: Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
Social Orientation: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Innovation: Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.

Relationships: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
Support: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
Achievement: Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.

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Independence: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
Recognition: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
Working Conditions: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.

Realistic: Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.
Conventional: Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
Investigative: Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.

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Enterprising: Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
Social: Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.
Artistic: Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.

Study work orders or shoe part tags to obtain information about workloads, specifications, and the types of materials to be used.
Remove and examine shoes, shoe parts, and designs to verify conformance to specifications such as proper embedding of stitches in channels.
Perform routine equipment maintenance such as cleaning and lubricating machines or replacing broken needles.

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Cut excess thread or material from shoe parts, using scissors or knives.
Align parts to be stitched, following seams, edges, or markings, before positioning them under needles.
Switch on machines, lower pressure feet or rollers to secure parts, and start machine stitching, using hand, foot, or knee controls.
Test machinery to ensure proper functioning before beginning production.
Operate or tend machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts.
Draw thread through machine guide slots, needles, and presser feet in preparation for stitching, or load rolls of wire through machine axles.
Select and place spools of thread or pre-wound bobbins into shuttles, or onto spindles or loupers of stitching machines.
Turn knobs to adjust stitch length and thread tension.
Inspect finished products to ensure that shoes have been completed according to specifications.
Turn screws to regulate size of staples.
Turn setscrews on needle bars, and position required numbers of needles in stitching machines.
Collect shoe parts from conveyer belts or racks and place them in machinery such as ovens or on molds for dressing, returning them to conveyers or racks to send them to the next work station.
Position dies on material in a manner that will obtain the maximum number of parts from each portion of material.
Fill shuttle spools with thread from a machine's bobbin winder by pressing a foot treadle.
Staple sides of shoes, pressing a foot treadle to position and hold each shoe under the feeder of the machine.
Hammer loose staples for proper attachment.

Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

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Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
Sales and Marketing: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
Communications and Media: Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
Chemistry: Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
Medicine and Dentistry: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
Philosophy and Theology: Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
Foreign Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
Geography: Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
Physics: Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

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Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.

Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

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Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.

Education & Training

Education High school diploma or equivalent

Licensing Some professions require a specific license to work in Maine. For information on any licensing requirements for this and other occupations, visit the Maine Office of Professional and Financial Regulation.

Training Short-term on-the-job training