At a glance

Description Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment.

Alternate titles
  • Adzing and Boring Machine Operator
  • Artificial Log Machine Operator
  • Automatic Clipper
  • Automatic Nailing Machine Operator
  • Automatic Profile Shaper Operator
  • Balloon Sander
  • Band Nailer
  • Bander
  • Barker Operator
  • Barrel Builder
  • Barrel Charrer
  • Barrel Lathe Operator
  • Barrel Maker
  • Basket Assembler
  • Basket Braider
  • Basket Maker
  • Basket Weaver
  • Bender Machine Operator
  • Bending Frame Operator
  • Blind Slat Stapling Machine Operator
Alternate titles
  • Board Finisher
  • Borer
  • Boring Machine Operator
  • Bottom Hoop Driver
  • Bottom Turning Lathe Tender
  • Bottom Turning Lathe Turner
  • Bowl Turner
  • Box Blank Machine Operator
  • Box Stapler
  • Box-Blank-Machine Operator
  • Briar Cutter
  • Bucker
  • Bucket Chucker
  • Bucket Turner
  • Burn Table Operator
  • Cabinet Maker
  • Checkering Machine Adjuster
  • Chip Machine Operator
  • Chip Mixing Machine Operator
  • Chipper
  • Chipper Machine Operator
  • Chucking and Boring Machine Operator
  • Chucking Machine Operator
  • Chucking Machine Set Up Operator
  • Cleat Blanker
  • Cleat Maker
  • Cleater
  • CNC Wood Lathe Operator (Computer Numerical Control Wood Lathe Operator)
  • CNC Wood Lathe Operator (Computer Numerically Controlled Wood Lathe Operator)
  • Copy Lathe Tender
  • Core Composer Feeder
  • Core Layer Machine Operator
  • Cork Grinder
  • Cork Molder
  • Corrugated Fastener Driver
  • Corrugator
  • Creosoting Engineer
  • Cylinder Sander Operator
  • Dado Operator
  • Dolly Operator
  • Dollyman
  • Door Clamper
  • Doors Prefitter
  • Double End Trimmer
  • Dovetail Machine Operator
  • Dovetailer
  • Dowel Inserting Machine Operator
  • Dowel Machine Operator
  • Dowel Maker
  • Doweler
  • Embossing Machine Operator
  • End Frazer
  • End Matcher
  • End Stapler
  • End Touching Machine Operator
  • Excelsior Machine Operator
  • Excelsior Machine Tender
  • Fastener
  • Flake Cutter Operator
  • Flooring Machine Operator
  • Foot Miter Operator
  • Frame Polisher
  • Frame Table Operator
  • Framer
  • Frazer
  • Grader
  • Groover and Striper Operator
  • Header
  • Heading Machine Operator
  • Heading Pinner
  • Heel Nailing Machine Operator
  • Hinging Machine Operator
  • Hoop Expander
  • Hoop Machine Operator
  • Hoop Maker
  • Hoop Riveter
  • Hooper
  • Impregnator
  • Incising Machine Operator
  • Inletter
  • Inside Barrel Lathe Operator
  • Jointer Machine Operator
  • Jointer Operator
  • Knife Setter
  • Knot Saw Operator
  • Laminating Machine Operator
  • Laminator
  • Lap Machine Operator
  • Lapper
  • Last Scourer
  • Last Trimmer
  • Last Turner
  • Lathe Operator
  • Lathe Sander
  • Lathe Set Up Operator
  • Lathe Spotter
  • Linderman
  • Linderman Machine Operator
  • Linderman Operator
  • Line Tender
  • Lock Corner Machine Operator
  • Log Cooker
  • Lumber Press Operator
  • Lumber Tripper
  • Machine Bender
  • Machine Operator
  • Machine Sander
  • Machine Setter
  • Machine Setup Operator
  • Machine Slat Basket Maker
  • Machine Wood Sander
  • Machine Woodworking Sander
  • Miller
  • Molder Feeder
  • Molder Operator
  • Molding Cutter
  • Molding Sander
  • Mortising Machine Operator
  • Multi-Purpose Machine Operator
  • Multiple Drum Sander
  • Nail Kegger
  • Nail Setter
  • Nail Sticker
  • Nailer
  • Nailer Operator
  • Nailhead Operator
  • Nailhead Setter
  • Nailing Machine Operator
  • Outside Barrel Lathe Operator
  • Pipe and Tank Fabricator
  • Planer
  • Planer Operator
  • Planer Setup Operator
  • Planer Type Milling Machine Setup Operator
  • Planing Machine Operator
  • Plasma Operator
  • Plasma Table Operator
  • Plow and Boring Machine Tender
  • Plug Machine Operator
  • Plugging Machine Operator
  • Plywood Scarfer Tender
  • Pole Peeling Machine Operator
  • Portable Machine Sander
  • Power Barker
  • Power Barker Operator
  • Power Bender Operator
  • Profile Shaper Operator
  • Pulley Mortiser Operator
  • Puncher
  • Putty Worker
  • Rabbet Operator
  • Rafter Cutting Machine Operator
  • Rail Bender
  • Repair Table Operator
  • Retort Engineer
  • Rodding Machine Tender
  • Roof Truss Builder
  • Roof Truss Machine Tender
  • Rough Planer Tender
  • Rounding Machine Tender
  • Router
  • Router Operator
  • Router Tender
  • Sander
  • Sander Operator
  • Sanding Machine Buffer
  • Sanding Machine Operator or Tender
  • Sanding Machine Tender
  • Scooping Machine Tender
  • Set Up Mechanic
  • Set Up Operator
  • Set Up Worker
  • Set-Up Mechanic
  • Shake Backboard Notcher
  • Shank Threader
  • Shaper Operator
  • Shook Machine Operator
  • Shuttle Spotter
  • Sizing Machine Tender
  • Skiver
  • Skiving Machine Operator
  • Skoog Machine Operator
  • Skoog Operator
  • Skoog Patching Machine Operator
  • Slab Tripper
  • Slack Cooper
  • Slat Basket Maker
  • Slicing Machine Operator
  • Slicing Machine Tender
  • Small Craft Operator
  • Smoking Pipe Driller and Threader
  • Spar Machine Operator
  • Speed Belt Sander
  • Speed Belt Sander Tender
  • Spindle Carver
  • Splicer Operator
  • Splitter Tender
  • Splitting Machine Operator
  • Splitting Machine Tender
  • Squeezer
  • Squeezer Operator
  • Stacker Tender
  • Stapler
  • Stapling Machine Operator
  • Stave Jointer
  • Stave Machine Tender
  • Steam Box Operator
  • Stemhole Borer
  • Stock Checker
  • Stroke Belt Sander Operator
  • Swing Type Lathe Operator
  • Tenon Operator
  • Tenoner Operator
  • Timber Sizer
  • Timber Sizer Operator
  • Tip Inserter
  • Tongue and Groove Machine Operator
  • Touch-Up Carver
  • Trans Router
  • Treating Engineer
  • Trimmer and Borer Machine Operator
  • Trimming Machine Set-Up Operator
  • Truss Builder
  • Turner
  • Turning Lathe Tender
  • Turning Machine Set-Up Operator
  • Turning Sander Operator
  • Turning Sander Tender
  • Turret Lathe Operator
  • Turret Lathe Set Up Operator
  • Veneer Clipper
  • Veneer Joiner
  • Veneer Jointer
  • Veneer Jointer Operator
  • Veneer Lathe Operator
  • Veneer Press Operator
  • Veneer Slicing Machine Operator
  • Veneer Splicer
  • Whiting Machine Operator
  • Wire Stitcher
  • Wood Borer
  • Wood Boring Machine Operator
  • Wood Carving Lathe Operator
  • Wood Carving Machine Operator
  • Wood Chopper
  • Wood Coat Hanger Shaper Machine Operator
  • Wood Dowel Machine Operator
  • Wood Drill Operator
  • Wood Drilling Machine Operator
  • Wood Gouger
  • Wood Handler
  • Wood Heel Back Liner
  • Wood Lathe Operator
  • Wood Machine Carver
  • Wood Miller
  • Wood Milling Machine Hand
  • Wood Milling Machine Operator
  • Wood Milling Machine Tender
  • Wood Molder
  • Wood Planer
  • Wood Router
  • Wood Router Hand
  • Wood Turner
  • Wood Turning Lathe Operator
  • Woodworking Belt Sander
  • Woodworking Machine Setter
Mwayene ya lifuti ya ngonga moko $17.69 - $21.68 ($36,780.00 - $45,090.00 annually)*
Total ya ba ouvertures ya mbula na mbula49
Motango mobimba oyo basali577

A day in the life

  • Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
  • Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
  • Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Work activities
  • Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
  • 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.
  • Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
  • Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
  • Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
  • Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
  • Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
  • Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
  • Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
  • 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.
  • Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
  • Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
  • Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
  • Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
  • Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
  • Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
  • Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
  • Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
  • 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.
  • Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
  • Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
  • Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
  • Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
  • Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
  • Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
  • 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.
  • Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
  • Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
  • 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 Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
  • 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.
  • Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
  • Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
  • Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
  • Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
Work styles
  • 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.
  • Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
  • Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
  • Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
  • Analytical Thinking: Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
  • Innovation: Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
  • Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
  • Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
  • Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
  • Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
  • Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
  • Social Orientation: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
  • 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.
  • Independence: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
  • 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.
Work values
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Work interests
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Start machines, adjust controls, and make trial cuts to ensure that machinery is operating properly.
  • Determine product specifications and materials, work methods, and machine setup requirements, according to blueprints, oral or written instructions, drawings, or work orders.
  • Feed stock through feed mechanisms or conveyors into planing, shaping, boring, mortising, or sanding machines to produce desired components.
Work tasks
  • Adjust machine tables or cutting devices and set controls on machines to produce specified cuts or operations.
  • Monitor operation of machines and make adjustments to correct problems and ensure conformance to specifications.
  • Set up, program, operate, or tend computerized or manual woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, or wood-nailing machines.
  • Select knives, saws, blades, cutter heads, cams, bits, or belts, according to workpiece, machine functions, or product specifications.
  • Examine finished workpieces for smoothness, shape, angle, depth-of-cut, or conformity to specifications and verify dimensions, visually and using hands, rules, calipers, templates, or gauges.
  • Install and adjust blades, cutterheads, boring-bits, or sanding-belts, using hand tools and rules.
  • Inspect and mark completed workpieces and stack them on pallets, in boxes, or on conveyors so that they can be moved to the next workstation.
  • Push or hold workpieces against, under, or through cutting, boring, or shaping mechanisms.
  • Change alignment and adjustment of sanding, cutting, or boring machine guides to prevent defects in finished products, using hand tools.
  • Inspect pulleys, drive belts, guards, or fences on machines to ensure that machines will operate safely.
  • Remove and replace worn parts, bits, belts, sandpaper, or shaping tools.
  • Secure woodstock against a guide or in a holding device, place woodstock on a conveyor, or dump woodstock in a hopper to feed woodstock into machines.
  • Clean or maintain products, machines, or work areas.
  • Attach and adjust guides, stops, clamps, chucks, or feed mechanisms, using hand tools.
  • Examine raw woodstock for defects and to ensure conformity to size and other specification standards.
  • Trim wood parts according to specifications, using planes, chisels, or wood files or sanders.
  • Grease or oil woodworking machines.
  • Set up, program, or control computer-aided design (CAD) or computer numerical control (CNC) machines.
  • Operate gluing machines to glue pieces of wood together, or to press and affix wood veneer to wood surfaces.
  • Unclamp workpieces and remove them from machines.
  • Start machines and move levers to engage hydraulic lifts that press woodstocks into desired forms and disengage lifts after appropriate drying times.
  • Control hoists to remove parts or products from work stations.
  • Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
  • Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
  • Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Work knowledge
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • 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.
  • Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
  • Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  • 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.
  • Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
  • Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
  • History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
  • Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
  • Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
  • Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
Work abilities
  • 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.
  • Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
  • 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.
  • Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
  • 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.
  • Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
  • 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.
  • Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  • Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
  • Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
  • 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.
  • Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
  • Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
  • 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).
  • Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
  • Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
  • 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.
  • Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
  • Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
  • Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
  • Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
  • Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
  • 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.
  • Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
  • Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
  • Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
  • Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
  • 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).
  • Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
  • Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
  • Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
  • Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
  • 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.
  • Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
  • Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
  • Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
  • Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
  • Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
  • Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
  • Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
Work skills
  • Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
  • Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
  • Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
  • 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.
  • Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
  • Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
  • 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.
  • Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
  • Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
  • Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
  • Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
  • Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
  • 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.
  • Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
  • Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
  • Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
  • 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.
  • Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
  • Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
  • Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
  • Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
  • Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

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 Moderate-term on-the-job training

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Regional Occupation Data

Data provided by CWRI
Total number employed 577
Average annual wage* $36,780 - $45,090
Annual total openings 49
Average hourly wage* $17.69 - $21.68
Total number employed 166
Average annual wage* $38,010 - $43,230
Annual total openings 15
Average hourly wage* $18.28 - $20.78
Total number employed 167
Average annual wage* $36,270 - $43,640
Annual total openings 15
Average hourly wage* $17.44 - $20.98
Total number employed 147
Average annual wage* No data available
Annual total openings 15
Average hourly wage* No data available

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