Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

At a glance

Description Set up, operate, or tend machines that wind or twist textiles; or draw out and combine sliver, such as wool, hemp, or synthetic fibers. Includes slubber machine and drawing frame operators.

Alternate titles

Automatic Beam Warper Tender
Automatic Quilling Machine Operator
Automatic Thread Winder
Automatic Winder Operator
Axminster Rug Setter
Back Winder
Backwinder
Ball Fringe Machine Operator
Ball Warper Tender
Ball Winder
Baller
Balling Machine Operator
Balling Tender
Bandage Winding Machine Operator
Batting Machine Operator
Beam Warper
Beamer
Beamer Hand
Beamer Operator
Beaming Machine Operator

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Blocker
Board Winder
Bobbin Doffer
Bobbin Winder
Bonding Machine Setter
Box Tender
Braid Pattern Setter
Cable Operator
Calender Wind Up Tender
Carding Machine Operator
Carding Utility Tender
Cloth Doubling Machine Operator
Cloth Reeler
Cloth Winder
Cloth Winder Machine Operator
Coiler
Comb Winder
Comber
Combination Machine Tender
Computer Integrated Manufacturing Operator (CIM Operator)
Cone Machine Operator
Cone Winder
Coner
Coning Machine Operator
Cop Winder
Copper
Copping Machine Operator
Core Winder
Covering Machine Operator
Creel Hand
Creel Operator
Creeler
Doubling Machine Operator
Draw Frame Operator
Draw Frame Runner
Draw Frame Tender
Draw Machine Operator
Draw Tender
Drawer
Drawing Box Tender
Drawing Frame Tender
Drawing Machine Operator
Drawing Operator
Drawing Tender
Dresser Tender
Fiberglass Roving Winder
Finisher Card Tender
Fishing Line Winding Machine Operator
Fly Frame Tender
Foster Winder
Frame Hand
Frame Operator
Frame Runner
Frame Spinner
Frame Tender
Framer
Gasket Winder
Gill Box Tender
Hanker
Heatset Winder Operator
High Speed Warper Tender
Hooking Machine Operator
Jack Frame Tender
Jack Spinner
Jack Spooler Tender
Jack Winder
Lace Roller
Lace Winder
Lap Machine Tender
Line Operator
Long Chain Beamer
Long Winder Tender
Loom Doffer
Loom Winder Tender
Machine Bobbin Winder
Machine Rope Maker
Machine Setter
Mule Operator
Mule Spinner
Mule Tender
Nylon Winder
Open Winder
Paint Roller Winder
Paper Twister Tender
Piece Hand
Precise Winder
Quill Fixer
Quill Machine Operator
Quill Machine Tender
Quill Reamer
Quill Winder
Quiller
Quiller Hand
Quiller Operator
Quiller Runner
Quiller Tender
Rayon Coner
Rayon Winder
Rebeamer
Redrawer
Reel Operator
Reel Tender
Reel Winder
Reeler
Reeling Machine Operator
Reeling Operator
Respooler
Rewind Operator
Rewinder
Rewinder Operator
Ribbon Winder
Ring Spinner
Roll Up Machine Operator
Roller Operator
Rolling Down Machine Operator
Rolling Machine Operator
Rolling Machine Tender
Rope Laying Machine Operator
Rope Machine Setter
Rope Maker
Ropewalk Rope Maker
Roping Tender
Roving Changer
Roving Frame Tender
Roving Winder
Rubber Thread Spooler
Selvage Machine Operator
Sewing Machine Bobbin Winder
Silk Spooler
Silk Winding Machine Operator
Singe Winder
Skein Spooler
Skein Winder
Skeiner
Sliver Lap Machine Tender
Slubber
Slubber Hand
Slubber Machine Operator
Slubber Operator
Slubber Runner
Slubber Tender
Speed Runner
Speed Winder
Speeder Frame Tender
Speeder Hand
Speeder Machine Operator
Speeder Operator
Speeder Tender
Speeder Worker
Spinner
Spinner Hand
Spinner Operator
Spinner Tender
Spinning Doffer
Spinning Frame Tender
Spinning Machine Operator
Spinning Machine Tender
Spinning Mule Operator
Spinning Mule Tender
Spinning Operator
Spinning Room Worker
Spool Tender
Spool Winder
Spooler
Spooling Machine Operator
Spooling Operator
Staple Processing Machine Operator
Strand Forming Machine Operator
Stretch Box Tender
Stretcher
Stretcher Operator
Stretching Machine Operator
Swift Tender
Take-Up Operator
Textile Draw-Out Machine Operator
Textile Draw-Out Machine Tender
Textile Machine Fixer
Thread Dresser
Thread Reeler
Thread Spinner
Thread Twister
Thread Winder
Thrower
Tie in Hand
Tie in Machine Operator
Trimming Machine Operator
Tube Winder
Tufting Creeler
Twister
Twister Frame Tender
Twister Hand
Twister Operator
Twister Tender
Twisting Frame Operator
Twisting Machine Operator
Twisting Operator
Uptwister Tender
Warp Changer
Warp Doffer
Warp Drawer
Warp Dresser
Warp Hand
Warp Hanger
Warp Picker
Warp Preparer
Warp Spinner
Warp Splitter
Warp Spooler
Warp Starter
Warp Tier
Warp Tying Machine Tender
Warper
Warper Creeler
Warper Fixer
Warper Tender
Warping Machine Operator
White Spooler
Winder
Winder Operator
Winder Tender
Winding Machine Operator
Winding Rack Operator
Wool Winder
Yarn Rewinder
Yarn Spinner
Yarn Spooler
Yarn Texturing Machine Operator
Yarn Twister
Yarn Utility Operator
Yarn Winder

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Average hourly wage $18.04 - $19.63 ($37,530 - $40,820 annually)*

Annual total openings27

Total number employed278

A day in the life

Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.

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Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
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.
Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
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.
Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
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.
Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Performing General Physical Activities: Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
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.
Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
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.
Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
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.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
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.
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.

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.
Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.

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Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
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.
Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
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.
Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
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.
Analytical Thinking: Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
Social Orientation: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.

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

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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.
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.
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.
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.

Notify supervisors or mechanics of equipment malfunctions.
Start machines, monitor operation, and make adjustments as needed.
Inspect products to verify that they meet specifications and to determine whether machine adjustment is needed.

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Tend machines that twist together two or more strands of yarn or insert additional twists into single strands of yarn to increase strength, smoothness, or uniformity of yarn.
Replace depleted supply packages with full packages.
Observe operations to detect defects, malfunctions, or supply shortages.
Thread yarn, thread, or fabric through guides, needles, and rollers of machines.
Operate machines for test runs to verify adjustments and to obtain product samples.
Inspect machinery to determine whether repairs are needed.
Record production data such as numbers and types of bobbins wound.
Stop machines when specified amount of products has been produced.
Tend machines with multiple winding units that wind thread onto shuttle bobbins for use on sewing machines or other kinds of bobbins for sole-stitching, knitting, or weaving machinery.
Place bobbins on spindles and insert spindles into bobbin-winding machines.
Study guides, samples, charts, and specification sheets, or confer with supervisors or engineering staff to determine setup requirements.
Measure bobbins periodically, using gauges, and turn screws to adjust tension if bobbins are not of specified size.
Install, level, and align machine components such as gears, chains, guides, dies, cutters, or needles to set up machinery for operation.
Tend spinning frames that draw out and twist roving or sliver into yarn.
Unwind lengths of yarn, thread, or twine from spools and wind onto bobbins.
Observe bobbins as they are winding and cut threads to remove loaded bobbins, using knives.
Adjust machine settings such as speed or tension to produce products that meet specifications.
Clean, oil, and lubricate machines, using air hoses, cleaning solutions, rags, oilcans, and grease guns.
Remove spindles from machines and bobbins from spindles.
Repair or replace worn or defective parts or components, using hand tools.

Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

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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.
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.
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.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
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.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
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.
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.
Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
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.
Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.

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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.
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.
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.
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
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.
Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
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.
Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
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.
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
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.
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
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.
Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
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.
Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
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.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.

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

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