Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

At a glance

Description Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

Alternate titles

Agriculture Laborer
Agriculture Worker
Apple Picker
Apple Thinner
Apple Turner
Asparagus Cutter
Bale Sewer
Baller
Bean Picker
Beet Topper
Beet Worker
Berry and Nut Harvester
Berry Picker
Berry Planter
Bog Worker
Brush Cutter
Budder
Bulb Farmworker
Bulb Grower
Bulb Packer

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Bulb Planter
Bulb Weeder
Cane Burner
Cane Cutter
Cane Flume Watcher
Cane Flume Watchman
Cane Loader
Cane Packer
Cane Pusher
Cane Stripper
Carrot Buncher
Carrot Harvester
Carrot Tier
Celery Cutter
Celery Packer
Celery Stripper
Celery Tier
Celery Wrapper
Citrus Fruit Packer
Citrus Picker
Corn Detasseler
Corn Husker
Corn Picker
Corn Sheller
Corn Shredder
Corn Shucker
Cotton Picker
Cotton Puller
Cotton Stomper
Crop Duster Helper
Crop Farm Helper
Crop Farmer
Crop Farmworker
Crop Picker
Crop Ranch Hand
Culler
Detasseler
Digger
Ditch Cleaner
Ditch Digger
Ditch Rider
Ditch Tender
Ditcher
Diversified Crops Farmworker
Dryland Farmer
Farm Assistant
Farm Hand
Farm Laborer
Farm Rancher
Farm Worker
Farmer
Farmworker
Field Broomer
Field Cane Scaler Helper
Field Crop Farmworker
Field Crop Harvest Worker
Field Hand
Field Handyman
Field Hauler
Field Irrigation Worker
Field Worker
Fig Caprifier
Firebreak Cutter
Florist Helper
Flower Cutter
Flower Picker
Flower Planter
Flower Stripper
Food Crops Farm Hand
Fruit Cutter
Fruit Farmer
Fruit Farmworker
Fruit Harvest Worker
Fruit Harvester
Fruit Loader
Fruit Packer
Fruit Picker
Fruit Thinner
Fruit Worker
Gardener
General Farm Laborer
General Farm Worker
Ginner
Grafter
Grain Farmer
Grain Farmworker
Grape Cutter
Grape Picker
Gravity Flow Irrigator
Greenhouse Assistant
Greenhouse Associate
Greenhouse Laboratory Associate (Greenhouse Lab Associate)
Greenhouse Laborer
Greenhouse Specialist
Greenhouse Tech (Greenhouse Technician)
Greenhouse Transplanter
Greenhouse Worker
Ground Worker
Groundman
Grounds and Nursery Specialist
Grove Worker
Grower
Grubber
Gun Fertilizer
Hand Cultivator
Harvest Worker
Harvester
Haul Cane Brakeman
Hay Buckler
Hay Stacker
Herb Digger
Hired Hand
Hoe Worker
Hoer
Hop Picker
Hop Trainer
Hop Worker
Horticultural Farmworker
Horticultural Specialty Grower
Horticultural Worker
Horticulturist
Hydroponic Controlled Environment Agricultural Grower
Irrigation Equipment Remover
Irrigation Flume Layer
Irrigation Laborer
Irrigation Specialist
Irrigation System Operator
Irrigation Technician (Irrigation Tech)
Irrigator
Land Clearer
Landscape Nurseryman
Lemon Picker
Lettuce Cutter
Loader
Migratory Farm Hand
Migratory Worker
Mushroom Cultivator
Mushroom Cutter
Mushroom Growth Media Mixer
Mushroom Picker
Nursery Helper
Nursery Laborer
Nursery Transplanter
Nursery Worker
Nurseryman Assistant
Nut Farmer
Nut Farmworker
Nut Packer
Nut Picker
Nut Sheller
Olive Knocker
Olive Picker
Onion Tier
Onion Topper
Orange Picker
Orchard Hand
Orchard Worker
Orchid Hand
Orchid Transplanter
Overhead Irrigator
Pear Picker
Pecan Gatherer
Pecan Picker
Pepper Picker
Picker
Plant Nursery Worker
Plant Production Worker
Plant Propagator
Plant Puller
Plant Worker
Planting Material Carrier
Planting Material Remover
Planting Material Unloader
Pole Setter
Portable Irrigation Operator
Potato Loader
Potato Seed Cutter
Produce Laborer
Produce Wrapper
Propagation Laborer
Propagation Worker
Replanter
Rice Field Worker
Roguer
Seed Cutter
Seed Potato Arranger
Shallot Cleaner
Shallot Packer
Shed Hand
Smudger
Sprinkler Worker
Sprinkling System Irrigator
Sugar Cane Planter
Tassel Clipper
Tassel Snipper
Thinner
Tile Ditcher
Tobacco Cutter
Tobacco Prizer
Tobacco Stemmer
Tobacco Stripper
Tractor Driver
Tractor Operator
Transplant Worker
Transplanter
Tree Nursery Worker
Tree Surgeon Helper
Tree Tapping Laborer
Tree Wrapper
Valve Pipe Irrigator
Vegetable Buncher
Vegetable Farmworker
Vegetable Grower
Vegetable Harvest Worker
Vegetable Loader
Vegetable Packer
Vegetable Thinner
Vegetable Tier
Vegetable Trimmer
Vineyard Tender
Weed Burner
Weeder
Yam Curer
Zanjero

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Average hourly wage $18 - $22.66 ($37,430 - $47,120 annually)*

Annual total openings453

Total number employed3,349

A day in the life

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.
Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.

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Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
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).
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
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.
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.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
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.
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.
Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
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.
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.
Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
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.
Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
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.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
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.
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
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.
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.
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.
Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.

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Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
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.
Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.

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.
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.

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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.
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.

Plant, spray, weed, fertilize, water, and prune plants, shrubs, and trees, using gardening tools.
Harvest plants, and transplant or pot and label them.
Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray and harvest crops.

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Set up and operate irrigation equipment.
Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment.
Harvest fruits and vegetables by hand.
Clean work areas, and maintain grounds and landscaping.
Inform farmers or farm managers of crop progress.
Direct and monitor the work of casual and seasonal help during planting and harvesting.
Identify plants, pests, and weeds to determine the selection and application of pesticides and fertilizers.
Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs.
Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops.
Load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities.
Sell and deliver plants and flowers to customers.
Regulate greenhouse conditions, and indoor and outdoor irrigation systems.
Feel plants' leaves and note their coloring to detect the presence of insects or disease.
Provide information and advice to the public regarding the selection, purchase, and care of products.
Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control systems.
Dig, cut, and transplant seedlings, cuttings, trees, and shrubs.
Repair farm buildings, fences, and other structures.
Maintain inventory, ordering materials as required.
Record information about plants and plant growth.
Dig, rake, and screen soil, filling cold frames and hot beds in preparation for planting.
Inspect plants and bud ties to assess quality.
Move containerized shrubs, plants, and trees, using wheelbarrows or tractors.
Tie and bunch flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees, wrap their roots, and pack them into boxes to fill orders.
Haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels.
Maintain and repair irrigation and climate control systems.
Tie and bunch flowers, plants, shrubs, and trees, wrap their roots, and pack them into boxes to fill orders.
Haul and spread topsoil, fertilizer, peat moss, and other materials to condition soil, using wheelbarrows or carts and shovels.

Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

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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.
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.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
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.
Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
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.
Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
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.
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.
Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
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.
Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
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.
Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
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.
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.
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.

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

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Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
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.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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.
Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
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.
Mathematics: Using mathematics 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.
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.
Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

Education & Training

Education No formal educational credential

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