Machine Feeders and Offbearers

At a glance

Descrição Feed materials into or remove materials from machines or equipment that is automatic or tended by other workers.

Alternate titles

Acid Dumper
Archery Equipment Hay Sorter
Assembly Machine Operator
Automatic Glove Turner and Former
Automatic Nail Polish Brush Machine Feeder
Automatic Nailing Machine Feeder
Automatic Spooler Operator
Automatic Stacker
Back Tender
Ball Machine Operator
Bar Catcher
Barking Machine Feeder
Base Remover
Batch Trucker
Battery Loader
Battery Wrecker Operator
Bead Picker
Beam Racker
Beater and Pulper Feeder
Belt Knife Feeder

Alternate titles

Belt Line Feeder
Beveling and Edging Machine Operator Helper
Beveling Machine Operator
Bindery Machine Feeder
Bindery Machine Offbearer
Bisque Placer
Black Powder Glazing Operator
Block Feeder
Block Handler
Board Catcher
Bobbin Cleaning Machine Operator
Bone Char Operator
Boom Man
Boom Worker
Box Stacker
Brake Lining Curer
Break Off Worker
Brick Catcher
Brick Loader
Brick Off Bearer
Brick Offbearer
Broomcorn Press Feeder
Broomcorn Scraper
Broomcorn Seeder
Brush or Broom Cutter
Bulb Filler
Bundle Sorter
Bundles Hanger
Burr Grinder
Cake Knocker
Cake Puller
Cake Puncher
Calcine Furnace Loader
Calender Feeder
Can Carrier
Can Doffer
Can Dragger
Can Feeder
Can Pusher
Can Worker
Cane Feeder
Carbon Rod Inserter
Carroting Machine Offbearer
Carry in Worker
Carton Counter Feeder
Casing Cleaner
Casing in Line Feeder
Casing Machine Operator
Catcher
Cell Stripper
Chain Offbearer
Chain Person
Chainman
Chicle Grinder Feeder
Chip Crusher Operator
Chip Drier
Chip Washer
Chipman
Chipper Feeder
Chopper Feeder
Chute Feeder
Cigar Machine Feeder
Cigarette Making Machine Hopper Feeder
Cleat Feeder
Cleat Layer
Clip Loading Machine Feeder
Cloth Doffer
Cloth Feeder
Cloth Printer Helper
Clothespin Machine Operator
Coal Feeder Operator
Coating Machine Feeder
Color Dipper
Compound Coating Machine Offbearer
Compound Filler
Compound Worker
Conveyor Feeder
Conveyor Feeder Offbearer
Conveyor Loader
Cork Pressing Machine Operator
Cotton Ball Bagger
Cotton Cleaner
Cotton Feeder
Cotton Puller
Cotton Tipper
Cotton Washer
Cotton Wringer
Crayon Sorting Machine Feeder
Crimper
Crusher Feeder
Cupola Charger
Curing Press Operator
Cut in Station Operator
Cut in Worker
Cutting Machine Offbearer
Cylinder Press Feeder
Delivery Table Feeder
Design Assembler
Dessert Cup Machine Feeder
Destaticizer Feeder
Devulcanizer Charger
Digester Hand
Digester Operator Helper
Dip Stand Loader
Disc-Pad Grinding Machine Feeder
Disintegrator Feeder
Doffer
Drier
Drier Attendant
Drier Feeder
Drier Operator
Drier Take Off Tender
Dry Chain Operator
Dry Chain Puller
Dry Chain Worker
Dry Kiln Feeder
Dry Kiln Loader
Dryer Feeder
Drying Oven Attendant
Drying Rack Changer
Dumper
Dust Mill Operator
Dye-House Worker
Dye-Stand Loader
Dyed Raw Stock Blower Feeder
Dynamite Packing Machine Feeder
Edge Banding Machine Offbearer
Edge Banding Off Bearer
Edge Runner
Edger Machine Helper
Edging Machine Feeder
End-Touching Machine Operator
Enrobing Machine Feeder
Extract Puller
Extractor Loader and Unloader
Extractor Operator Helper
Feather Curling Machine Operator
Feather Cutting Machine Feeder
Feather Drying Machine Operator
Feeder
Feeder Catcher
Feeder Operator
Felt Hanger
Felt Tipping Machine Tender
Filler Feeder
First Breaker Feeder
Fish Boning Machine Feeder
Fish Dressing Machine Feeder
Fish Machine Feeder
Fish Skinning Machine Feeder
Fish Straightener
Floor Covering Printer
Flumer
Fly Worker
Folder
Folding Machine Feeder
Frame Feeder
Fuel House Attendant
Fusing Furnace Loader
Fusing Machine Feeder
Gang Tailer
Gathering Machine Feeder
Glass Cutting Machine Feeder
Glass Vial Bending Conveyor Feeder
Glost Placer
Gluing Machine Feeder
Gluing Machine Offbearer
Green Chain Off Bearer
Green Chain Operator
Green Chain Puller
Green Chain Worker
Green Chainer
Groover
Guider
Hacker
Hair Spinner
Hair Spinning Machine Operator
Hat and Cap Opener
Hat Forming Machine Feeder
Hay Sorter
Heat Curer
Heat Treater
Hemp Fiber Taker-Off
Hog Feeder
Hog Man
Hog Worker
Hoop Coiler
Hopper Feeder
Hopper Filler
Horser Up
Hose Tubing Backer
Hot Plate Plywood Press Laborer
Injection Molding Machine Offbearer
Insulation Cupola Charger
Jogger
Kiln Loader
Kiln Placer
Kiln Remover
Knocker
Laminated Plastic Tabletop Molding Wrapper
Laminating Machine Feeder
Lathe Puller
Layer
Line Feeder
Loader
Loading Machine Operator
Log Feeder
Lowerator Operator
Lug Loader
Lumber Chain Offbearer
Lumber Tailer
Machine Applicator Cementer
Machine Clipper
Machine Feed Operator
Machine Feeder
Machine Feeder Floorperson
Machine Grainer
Machine Handler
Machine Helper
Machine Hose Cutter
Machine Long Goods Helper
Machine Plug Shaper
Machine Steak Tenderizer
Machine Striper
Machine Tailer
Machine Worker
Magazine Feeder
Magazine Filler
Magazine Grinder Loader
Magazine Hand
Mangle Press Catcher
Masking Machine Feeder
Mat Packer
Matcher Offbearer
Material Distributor
Mending Carrier
Mica Laminating Machine Feeder
Mill Operator Helper
Mirror Machine Feeder
Mixing Machine Feeder
Molder Helper
Molding Machine Operator Helper
Mottler Machine Feeder
Mounter
Multiple Drum Sander Helper
Nail Feeder
Nail Polish Brush Machine Feeder
Nailing Machine Feeder
Necker
Needle Punch Machine Operator Helper
Odd Bundle Worker
Offbearer
Opener
Outsole Flexer
Package Crimper
Packing Floor Worker
Packing Machine Can Feeder
Pad Machine Feeder
Pad Machine Offbearer
Paper Bag Press Operator
Paper Cone Drying Machine Operator
Pasting Machine Offbearer
Pen or Pencil Assembly Machine Operator
Perfect Binder Feeder Offbearer
Pig Iron Loader
Pillowcase Turner
Pin Maker
Pipe Smoking Machine Offbearer
Pitch Worker
Placer
Planer Feeder
Planer Off Bearer
Planer Tailer
Planning Feeder
Plastic Design Applier
Plate Take Out Worker
Plating Machine Operator
Plywood Layup Line Back Feeder
Plywood Layup Line Core Layer
Pole-Peeling Machine Operator Helper
Polishing Machine Operator Helper
Poly Packer and Heat Sealer
Pond Worker
Pony Rougher
Preparation Room Worker
Press Assistant
Press Breaker
Press Bucker
Press Catcher
Press Feeder
Press Machine Feeder
Press Offbearer
Print Line Feeder
Print Line Tailer
Printed Circuit Board Panels Deburrer
Printer Slotter Feeder
Printer Slotter Helper
Printing Gray-Cloth Tender
Printing Grey Cloth Tender
Production Helper
Pulp Grinder Feeder
Pulverizer Feeder
Quill Cleaner
Quill Collector
Quill Skinner
Quill Stripper
Quill Worker
Rack Loader
Racker
Rag Cutting Machine Feeder
Raised Printer
Raw Stock Machine Feeder
Raw Stock Machine Loader
Reed Press Feeder
Reflector Driller and Deburrer
Resaw Tailer
Retort Unloader
Rip Tailer
Rockman
Rodman
Roll Tender
Rotary Cutter Feeder
Rotary Drier Feeder
Rubber Roller Grinder
Ruling Machine Feeder
Saw Feeder
Saw Tailer
Sawmill Worker
Sawyer
Scorer Helper
Scrap Sorter
Screen Printing Loader
Screen Printing Machine Loader
Screen Printing Machine Unloader
Screen Printing Unloader
Sequins Spooler
Sewer Pipe Offbearer
Sewing Line Baler
Shake Loader
Sheet Catcher
Sheet Tailer
Shingle Catcher
Shingle Shearing Machine Operator
Shredded Filler Hopper Feeder
Shuttle Hand
Skinning Machine Feeder
Slab Puller
Slab Stripper
Slab Worker
Slabber
Slicing Machine Tender
Slip Feeder
Soap Chipper
Sock Boarder
Spike Machine Feeder
Spike Machine Heater
Spinning Doffer
Splitting Machine Feeder
Spooler Operator
Spray Machine Loader
Spray Unit Feeder
Stave Planer Tender
Steam Tunnel Feeder
Stem Sizer
Sticker
Sticker Hand
Sticker Machine Operator
Sticker Operator
Stickman
Stitching Machine Feeder or Offbearer
Stone Belt Sander
Stone Driller Helper
Stoneworking Belt Sander
Stoneworking Sander
Strander
Stranner
Strip Catcher
Stripper
Suppository Molding Machine Operator
Sweatband Cutting Machine Operator
Sweatband Flanger
Swing Tender
Switch Maker
Tabber
Table Worker
Tableman
Tag Stringer
Tagger
Tail Dogger
Tail Worker
Tailer
Tailer Off
Take Away Man
Take Away Worker
Take-Off Man
Take-Off Worker
Taker
Taker Off
Tamale Machine Feeder
Temple Marker
Thermograph Operator
Third Dry-Cell Assembling Machine Tender
Thread Pulling Machine Attendant
Threading Machine Feeder Automatic
Tobacco Cloth Reclaimer
Tobacco Feeder-Catcher
Tobacco Hanger
Toggle Press Folder and Feeder
Top Dyeing Machine Loader
Tray Filler
Trimmer Helper
Tripper
Tube Handler
Tube Puller
Turn Down Attendant
Turn Down Man
Turn Down Worker
Unscrambler
Vat House Laborer
Veneer Drier Feeder
Veneer Jointer Offbearer
Veneer Stock Layer
Veneer Taping Machine Offbearer
Ware Server
Warp Coiler
Warp Hauler
Warp Placer
Warp Worker
Warpman
Washing Machine Loader and Puller
Waste and Batting Waste Chopper
Waste Chopper
Waste Machine Offbearer
Waste Paper Hammermill Operator
Wave Solder Offbearer
Web Press Jogger
Weight Checker
Wet Cotton Feeder
Wet Machine Cutter
Wire Charger
Wire Threader
Wood Handler
Wood Scrap Handler
Woodworking Machine Feeder
Woodworking Machine Offbearer
Wool Washer Feeder

Consulte as vagas de emprego no Maine JobLink.

Salário médio por hora $14.15 - $23.28 ($29,430.00 - $48,410.00 annually)*

Total de vagas anuais22

Número total de funcionários147

A day in the life

Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.

Work activities

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.
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.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
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.
Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
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.
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.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
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.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
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.
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.
Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.

Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.

Work styles

Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
Independence: Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.
Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult 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.
Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
Social Orientation: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
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.

Relationships: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
Support: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
Independence: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.

Work values

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.
Investigative: Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.

Work interests

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.
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.

Inspect materials and products for defects, and to ensure conformance to specifications.
Push dual control buttons and move controls to start, stop, or adjust machinery and equipment.
Identify and mark materials, products, and samples, following instructions.

Work tasks

Load materials and products into machines and equipment, or onto conveyors, using hand tools and moving devices.
Clean and maintain machinery, equipment, and work areas to ensure proper functioning and safe working conditions.
Weigh or measure materials or products to ensure conformance to specifications.
Fasten, package, or stack materials and products, using hand tools and fastening equipment.
Record production and operational data, such as amount of materials processed.
Transfer materials and products to and from machinery and equipment, using industrial trucks or hand trucks.
Remove materials and products from machines and equipment, and place them in boxes, trucks or conveyors, using hand tools and moving devices.
Add chemicals, solutions, or ingredients to machines or equipment as required by the manufacturing process.
Open and close gates of belt and pneumatic conveyors on machines that are fed directly from preceding machines.
Shovel or scoop materials into containers, machines, or equipment for processing, storage, or transport.

Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Work knowledge

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
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.
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.
Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
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.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
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.
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.
Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications 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.
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.
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.
Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
Geography: Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
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.
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.
History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

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.
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.

Work abilities

Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
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.
Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
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).
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.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
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.
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.
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.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
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.
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
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.
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
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.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
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).
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
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.
Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
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.
Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
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).
Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
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.
Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
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.

Work skills

Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
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.
Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
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 Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
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.
Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
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.

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