Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

At a glance

Description Set up, operate, or tend machines to crush, grind, or polish materials, such as coal, glass, grain, stone, food, or rubber.

Alternate titles

Abrasive Grinder
Air Bag Buffer
Air Chipper
Automatic Blocker
Automatic Buffer
Automatic Corn Grinder Operator
Automatic Grinding Machine Operator
Automatic Pattern Edger
Back Grinder
Ball Truing Machine Operator
Bark Grinder
Barytes Grinder
Beater Engineer
Bed Rubber
Beveler
Beveler Operator
Beveling and Edging Machine Operator
Beveling Machine Operator
Billet Sawyer
Bin Operator

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Binman
Blanchard Grinder Operator
Bone Crusher
Bone Grinder
Bowling Ball Finisher
Breaker Machine Operator
Breaker Tender
Breaking Machine Operator
Brush Sander
Buffing and Sueding Machine Operator
Buhr Mill Operator
Calciner
Carbon Grinder
Carbon Plant Grinder
Chipper
Chisel Trimmer
Cinder Crusher Operator
Circle Beveler
Circle Edger
Clay Grinder
Clay Temperer
Coal Crusher Operator
Coal Mill Operator
Coal Pulverizing Operator
Cocoa Room Operator
Coffee Grinder
Coke Crusher Operator
Compounder
Continuous Crusher Operator
Contour Grinder
Convex Grinder
Convex Grinder Operator
Copra Processor
Corn Grinder
Corn Husker
Cracker
Crusher
Crusher and Blender Operator
Crusher Feeder
Crusher Operator
Crusher Plant Operator
Crusher Setter
Crusher Tender
Crushing Machine Operator
Crystal Grinder
Crystal Lapper
Cullet Crusher
Cullet Crusher and Washer
Cullet Trucker
Cullet Washer
Custom Grinder
Custom Miller
Deburring Machine Operator
Deoiling Machine Operator
Disc Pad Grinder
Distillery Miller
Dry Pan Operator
Edger
Edging Machine Setter
Equipment Man
Equipment Worker
Facer
Feed Crusher
Feed Crusher Operator
Feed Grinder
Feed Mill Operator
Feed Mill Tender
Finger Grip Machine Operator
Finish Machine Tender
Finishing Machine Tender
Glass Belt Sander
Glass Grinder
Glaze Grinder
Glaze Maker
Gold Reclaimer
Granite Fabricator
Granite Polisher
Graphite Grinder
Greenstone Polisher Operator
Grinder
Grinder Machine Operator
Grinder Mill Operator
Grinder Operator
Grinder Tender
Grinding Machine Operator
Grinding Mill Operator
Gristmill Operator
Gristmiller
Grit Blaster
Gritter
Gritting Machine Operator
Groover
Gypsum Calciner
Hammer Mill Operator
Hand Grinder
Hardboard Grinder
Hide Buffer
Hull Grinder
Huller
Huller Operator
Husker Operator
Hydration Plant Operator
Hydrator
Hydrator Operator
Hydropulper
Hydropulper Operator
Industrial Coffee Grinder
Inflated Pad Buffer
Ink Grinder
Ivory Polisher
Jewel Bearing Facer
Jewel Bearing Grinder
Jewel Corner Brushing Machine Operator
Jewel Cupping Machine Operator
Jewel Flat Surfacer
Jewel Grinder
Jewel Hole Finish Opener
Laboratory Apparatus Glass Grinder (Lab Apparatus Glass Grinder)
Laboratory Miller (Lab Miller)
Lacquer Maker
Leguillon Debeader
Lens Cleaner
Lens Fabricating Machine Tender
Lens Grinding Machine Operator
Level Vial Grinder
Level Vial Inside Grinder
Liquor Grinder Mill Operator
Liquor Grinding Mill Operator
Log Chipper Operator
Machine Buffer
Machine Operator
Machine Stone Polisher
Machine Tender
Machine Turner
Marble and Granite Polisher
Marble Machine Operator
Marble Polisher
Marble Rubber
Meal Grinder Tender
Meal Miller
Meat Grinder
Merchant Miller
Milk Powder Grinder
Mill and Coal Transport Operator
Mill Attendant
Mill Operator
Miller
Mirror Finishing Machine Operator
Miter Grinder Operator
Mix Crusher Operator
Mold Chipper
Mold Dresser
Mold Polisher
Notch Grinder
Nut Grinder
Nut Sheller
Operator
Ordnance Equipment Worker
Ore Crusher
Paint Grinder
Peanut Sheller
Pebble Mill Operator
Pecan Huller
Pecan Sheller
Perlite Grinder
Pet Food Deboner
Pigment Grinder
Pipe Bowl Paint Trimmer
Planer Operator
Plate Glass Grinder
Plate Glass Polisher
Platen Grinder
Polisher
Polishing Machine Operator
Polishing Machine Tender
Powder Mill Operator
Preparation Operator (Prep Operator)
Pulp Grinder
Pulp Grinder and Blender
Pulp Refiner Operator
Pulper
Pulverizer
Pulverizer Mill Operator
Pulverizer Operator
Radius Corner Machine Operator
Raw Mill Operator
Refining Machine Operator
Regrinder
Rock Crusher
Rock Crusher Operator
Rock Crushing Machine Operator
Rod Mill Tender
Roll Grinder
Roll Tender
Roller Coverer
Roller Mill Operator
Rough and Truing Machine Operator
Rubber Grinder
Rubbing Bed Operator
Sagger Preparer
Salt Grinder
Salt Washer
Sand Mill Grinder
Sandblast Operator
Scale Reclamation Tender
Scratcher Tender
Seed Yeast Operator
Shot Blast Equipment Operator
Shot Blast Operator
Shot Blaster
Shredder Operator
Shredding Floor Equipment Operator
Sifter
Skin Buffer
Slab Grinder
Slate Splitter
Smoother
Snuff Grinder
Snuff Maker
Soap Grinder
Soil Sling Operator
Spice Grinder
Spice Miller
Sponge Buffer
Spouter
Stamper
Stamping Mill Tender
Stone Lathe Operator
Stone Mill Operator
Stone Planer
Stone Rougher
Stopper Grinder
Straight Line Edger
Strip Polisher
Sugar Chipper Machine Operator
Sugar Grinder
Surface Plate Finisher
Sweet Potato Disintegrator
Synthetic Soil Blocks Pulper
Tile Grinder
Tire Buffer
Tombstone Polisher
Top Polisher
Touch Up Edger
Tube Buffer
Tumbler
Tumbler Operator
Unit Operator
Unit Tender
Wafer Abrading Machine Tender
Wafer Fabrication Operator
Ware Dresser
Washer and Crusher Tender
Watch Crystal Edge Grinder
Water Fabricator Operator
Wet Mix Operator
Wet Pan Operator
Wet Process Miller
Wheat and Oats Flake Miller
Wheel Mill Operator
White Lead Grinder
Wood Flour Miller
Wood Grinder
Wood Grinder Operator

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Mwayene ya lifuti ya ngonga moko $18.9 - $37.8 ($39,320 - $78,630 annually)*

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A day in the life

Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.

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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.
Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
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.
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.
Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
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.
Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
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.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
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.
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
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.
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.
Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
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.
Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
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.

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Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
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.
Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.
Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
Innovation: Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
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.
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.
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.

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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.
Independence: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.

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.
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.
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.

Read work orders to determine production specifications and information.
Observe operation of equipment to ensure continuity of flow, safety, and efficient operation, and to detect malfunctions.
Move controls to start, stop, or adjust machinery and equipment that crushes, grinds, polishes, or blends materials.

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Record data from operations, testing, and production on specified forms.
Examine materials, ingredients, or products, visually or with hands, to ensure conformance to established standards.
Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products at specified intervals to ensure conformance to requirements.
Clean, adjust, and maintain equipment, using hand tools.
Notify supervisors of needed repairs.
Reject defective products and readjust equipment to eliminate problems.
Clean work areas.
Dislodge and clear jammed materials or other items from machinery and equipment, using hand tools.
Inspect chains, belts, or scrolls for signs of wear.
Tend accessory equipment, such as pumps and conveyors, to move materials or ingredients through production processes.
Set mill gauges to specified fineness of grind.
Transfer materials, supplies, and products between work areas, using moving equipment and hand tools.
Test samples of materials or products to ensure compliance with specifications, using test equipment.
Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory testing.
Mark bins as to types of mixtures stored.
Turn valves to regulate the moisture contents of materials.
Load materials into machinery and equipment, using hand tools.
Add or mix chemicals and ingredients for processing, using hand tools or other devices.

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.
Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
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.

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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.
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.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
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.
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.
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.
Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
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.
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.
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.
Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
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.
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.
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.
Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
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.
Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
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.
Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
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.
History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
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.
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.
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.
Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

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.
Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
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.

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Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
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.
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.
Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
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.
Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry 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.
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.
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.
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.
Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
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.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
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.
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.
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).
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
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.
Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
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 Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
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.
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).
Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.

Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.

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Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
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.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
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.
Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
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.
Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
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.
Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
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 Moderate-term on-the-job training