Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

At a glance

Description Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.

Alternate titles

Abrasive Mixer
Acetylene Cylinder Packing Mixer
Acid Adjuster
Acid Blower
Acid Mixer
Ammonia Worker
Asphalt Blender
Asphalt Mixer
Asphalt Mixing Machine Operator
Auger Mill Operator
Automatic Brine Mixer Operator
Banbury Machine Operator
Banbury Mill Operator
Banbury Mixer Operator
Banbury Operator
Barratte Operator
Batch Attendant
Batch Blender
Batch Maker
Batch Mixer

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Batch Room Technician (Batch Room Tech)
Batchmaker
Bath Mixer
Batter Mixer
Binder Technician (Binder Tech)
Bleach Liquor Maker
Bleach Maker
Bleach Mixer
Blender
Blender Conveyor Operator
Blender Machine Operator
Blender Operator
Blending Line Attendant
Blending Machine Operator
Blending Operator
Blending Plant Operator
Blending Tank Tender
Blending Technician (Blending Tech)
Blow Up Operator
Blunger
Board Mixer Tender
Boss Dyer
Bran Mixer
Breading Machine Tender
Brine Maker
Brine Mixer Operator
Broth Mixer
Bulk Plant Operator
Bulk Station Operator
Bullet Lubricant Mixer
Candy Puller
Carbide Powder Processor
Carbon Paste Mixer Operator
Carbonation Equipment Tender
Casing Fluid Tender
Catalyst Concentration Operator
Caustic Mixer
Cellophane Bath Mixer
Cement Mixer
Chemical Blender
Chemical Compounder
Chemical Mixer
Chemical Preparer (Chem Prep)
Chili Powder Mixer
Chip Mixing Machine Operator
Churn Tender
Churner
Cistern Room Operator
Clay Maker
Clay Miller
Clay Mixer
Clay Puddler
Clay Stain Mixer
Clay Worker
Coagulating Bath Mixer
Coating Mixer
Coating Mixer Tender
Cocoa Powder Mixer Operator
Color Developer
Color Drum Worker
Color Maker
Color Mixer
Color Paste Mixer
Composition Mixer
Composition Worker
Compound Finisher
Compound Mixer
Compound Specialist
Compounder
Conche Operator
Concrete Batcher
Concrete Mixer
Concrete Mixer Operator
Continuous Churn Buttermaker
Cosmetic Maker
Cream Maker
Crusher and Blender Operator
Crutcher
Devil Tender
Dextrine Mixer
Diamond Blender
Diamond Powder Mixer
Dip Dyer
Dope Mixer
Dough Brake Machine Operator
Dough Mixer
Dough Mixer Operator
Dross Puller
Dry Color Mixer
Dry Food Products Mixer
Dry Mixer
Dry Primer Powder Blender
Dry Starch Operator
Dust Mixer
Dustless Operator
Dye Maker
Dye Mixer
Dye Weigher
Emulsion Operator
Extract Mixer
Feather Mixer
Feed Blender
Feed Mixer
Fertilizer Mixer
Flour Blender
Flour Mixer
Fluorescent Solution Mixer
Flux Mixer
Foam Rubber Curer
Foam Rubber Mixer
Foamite Mixer
Formula Weigher
Formulator
Frit Burner
Frit Mixer
Frit Mixer and Burner
Frothing Machine Operator
Gasoline Catalyst Operator
Gasoline Finisher
Glaze Maker
Glaze Mixer
Glue Mixer
Grain Mixer
Granulator
Granulator Machine Operator
Grease Maker
Green Coffee Blender
Ground Mixer
Gum Mixer
Gum Rolling Machine Operator
Gunite Mixer
Gunite Nozzle Operator
Hair Mixer
Hot Mix Operator
Icing Mixer
Ink Blender
Ink Maker
Ink Mixer
Insecticide Maker
Insecticide Mixer
Issuing Operator
Lacquer Maker
Lime Mixer
Lime Mixer Tender
Lime Plant Operator
Lime Slaker
Lime Sludge Mixer
Liquid Sugar Fortifier
Liquid Sugar Melter
Lozenge Dough Mixer
Machine Operator
Machine Paint Mixer
Machine Plaster Mixer
Machine Sand Mixer
Make Up Operator
Margarine Churn Operator
Marinator
Mash Grinder
Material Mixer
Meat Blender
Metal Mixer
Mill Feeder
Mincemeat Maker
Mingler Operator
Mix House Tender
Mixer
Mixer and Blender
Mixer Lever Operator
Mixer Operator
Mixer Runner
Mixer Tender
Mixing House Operator
Mixing Machine Feeder
Mixing Machine Operator
Mixing Machine Tender
Mixing Operator
Mixing Plant Operator
Mixing Roll Operator
Mixing Tank Operator
Mixing Tumbler Operator
Mortar Mixer
Mortar Mixer Operator
Mottler Operator
Mud Cleaner Operator
Mud Mill Tender
Mud Mixer
Mud Mixer Operator
Mud Plant Operator
Mulling Machine Operator
Nitrate Operator
Nitrating Acid Mixer
Oil Mixer
Operator
Operator Specialist
Ore Mixer
Paint Maker
Paint Mixer
Paint Tinter
Paper Colorer
Paste Maker
Paste Mixer
Peanut Butter Maker
Pearl Glue Operator
Perfume Compounder
Perfume Maker
Pigment Mixer
Plaster Mixer
Plastic Mixer
Plasticator
Polish Compounder
Polish Maker
Porcelain Mixer
Powder Blender
Powder Blender and Pourer
Powder Mixer
Powder Worker
Process Tank Tender
Production Operator
Pug Machine Operator
Pug Mill Operator
Pugger
Pulp Grinder and Blender
Pulp Mixer
Pulp Refiner Operator
Pulper
Pulverizing and Sifting Operator
Putty Maker
Putty Mixer
Reagent Tender
Reducer
Refined Syrup Operator
Refractory Mixer
Relish Blender
Resin Mixer
Resin Technician (Resin Tech)
Restrictive Preparation Operator (Restrictive Prep Operator)
Roof Cement and Paint Maker
Rouge Mixer
Rubber Compounder Mixer
Rubber Mill Tender
Rubber Mixer
Sand Conditioner
Sand Control Worker
Sand Mill Operator
Sand Miller
Sand Operator
Sand Sifter
Sausage Maker
Sausage Mixer
Scratcher Tender
Screener and Blender
Seal Mixer
Seasoning Mixer
Silica Spray Mixer
Silver Solution Mixer
Sinter Machine Operator
Size Maker
Size Mixer
Slaker
Slate Mixer
Slime Plant Operator
Slip Maker
Slip Mixer
Slurry Control Tender
Slurry Mixer
Snack Foods Mixer Operator
Snuff Blender
Soap Maker
Soda Room Operator
Solution Maker
Solution Mixer
Solutions Operator
Solvent Mixer
Spice Mixer
Spray Mixer
Stain Maker
Stock Preparation Operator (Stock Prep Operator)
Sweeping Compound Blender
Syrup Maker
Syrup Mixer
Tank Room Worker
Tank Worker
Tanning Solution Maker
Tetryl Dissolver Operator
Textile Colorist Dyer
Thinner
Tobacco Blender
Tracer Powder Blender
Tumbler Operator
Tumbler Tender
Unleavened Dough Mixer
Varnish Mixer
Varnish Thinner
Varnish Tinter
Vinegar Maker
Wax Blender
Weigher and Mixer
Weigher Bulker
Wet End Operator
Wet Mixer
Wet Pour Mixer
Wet Primer Powder Blender
Wheel Mill Operator
Whipped Topping Mixer
Wine Fermenter

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A day in the life

Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
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.

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Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
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.
Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
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.
Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
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.
Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
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.
Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
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.
Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
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.
Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
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.
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.
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.
Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
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.

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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Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
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.
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.
Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
Analytical Thinking: Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
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.

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

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Artistic: Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.
Enterprising: Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
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.

Weigh or measure materials, ingredients, or products to ensure conformance to requirements.
Operate or tend machines to mix or blend any of a wide variety of materials, such as spices, dough batter, tobacco, fruit juices, chemicals, livestock feed, food products, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.
Dump or pour specified amounts of materials into machinery or equipment.

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Observe production or monitor equipment to ensure safe and efficient operation.
Stop mixing or blending machines when specified product qualities are obtained and open valves and start pumps to transfer mixtures.
Collect samples of materials or products for laboratory testing.
Add or mix chemicals or ingredients for processing, using hand tools or other devices.
Examine materials, ingredients, or products visually or with hands to ensure conformance to established standards.
Record operational or production data on specified forms.
Transfer materials, supplies, or products between work areas, using moving equipment or hand tools.
Tend accessory equipment, such as pumps or conveyors, to move materials or ingredients through production processes.
Read work orders to determine production specifications or information.
Compound or process ingredients or dyes, according to formulas.
Unload mixtures into containers or onto conveyors for further processing.
Clean and maintain equipment, using hand tools.
Dislodge and clear jammed materials or other items from machinery or equipment, using hand tools.
Mix or blend ingredients by starting machines and mixing for specified times.
Clean work areas.
Test samples of materials or products to ensure compliance with specifications, using test equipment.
Open valves to drain slurry from mixers into storage tanks.

Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
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.
Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
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.
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.
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.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
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.
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.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
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.
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.
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.
Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
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.
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.
Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
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.
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.

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Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
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.
Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
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.
Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
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.
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
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.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
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).
Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
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.
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
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).
Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
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.
Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
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.
Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.

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

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