Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

At a glance

Description Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material.

Alternate titles

Abrasive Sawyer
Almond Cutting Machine Tender
Angle Shearer
Apple Peeler Operator
Applique Cutter
Arch Cushion Skiving Machine Operator
Automatic Glass Cutting Machine Operator
Automatic Outsole Cutter
Automatic Steel Tie Adjuster
Bag Cutter
Balloon Maker
Band Cutter
Band Saw Operator
Band Sawing Machine Operator
Bead Trimmer
Beam Press Operator
Beater
Beater Dumper
Beater Engineer
Beater Machine Operator

Alternate titles

Beater Operator
Beater Tender
Belt Cutter
Bias Cutter
Bias Machine Operator
Binder Cutter
Binder Layer
Block Cutter
Block Splitter Operator
Blockers Skiver
Blue Prints Trimmer
Book Trimmer
Brush Machine Setter
Button Breaker
Button Decorating Machine Operator
Cap Cutter
Carbon Cutter
Card Cutter
Carver
Celery Cutter
Char Belt Operator
Cheese Cutter
Chipper
Chopper
Circle Shear Operator
Circular Knife Machine Cutter
Citrus Peeler
Clicker
Clicker Operator
Clicking Machine Operator
Clipper
CNC Saw Operator (Computer Numerical Controlled Saw Operator)
Comb Machine Operator
Compensator
Computer Numerical Control Operator (CNC Operator)
Concaving Machine Operator
Concrete Cutting Operator
Concrete Saw Operator
Converting Operator
Cord Cutter
Core Cutter and Reamer
Cork Cutter
Corn Cutter
Corner Cutter
Counter Cutter
Cover Cutter
Crayon Sawyer
Crystal Cutter
Cube Cutter
Cut Off Operator Scorer
Cut-Lace Machine Operator
Cut-Off Machine Operator
Cutter
Cutter Finisher
Cutter Machine Tender
Cutter Operator
Cutter Out
Cutter Tender
Cutting and Creasing Press Operator
Cutting Machine Operator
Cutting Machine Tender
Cutting Pressman
Cylinder Die Machine Operator
Debeader
Decal Cutter
Decorative Cutting Machine Tender
Defective Cigarette Slitter
Deskidding Machine Operator
Diamond Cutter
Die Cutter
Die Cutter Operator
Die Cutting Machine Operator
Die Stamper
Dog Food Shredder Operator
Drum Operator
Edge Trimmer
Emblem Cutter
Excelsior Cutter
Feather Sawyer
Fiber Product Cutting Machine Operator
Filler Shredder
Fish Cleaner Machine Tender
Flake Cutter Operator
Flat Cutter
Flat Machine Cutter
Fleshing Machine Operator
Fluid Jet Cutter Operator
Foil Stamp Operator
Foxer
Foxing Cutting Machine Operator
Frozen Meat Cutter
Fruit Peeler
Fur Cutter
Gauge Operator
Glass Cut-Off Tender
Glass Cutter
Glass Cutting Machine Operator
Graduating Machine Operator
Granulating Machine Operator
Groover
Groover and Turner
Groover Operator
Groover Runner
Grooving Machine Operator
Guillotine Operator
Guillotine Trimmer
Gum Scoring Machine Operator
Hasher
Hasher Machine Operator
Hasher Operator
Heel Gouger
Hot Die Press Operator
Hot Die-Press Operator
Hot Mill Shearer
Ice Crusher
Ice Cutter
Ice Grinder
Inseam Trimmer
Insert Cutter
Insole Beveler
Insulation Batting Machine Operator
Insulation Board Saw Operator
Insulation Cutter
Insulation Cutter and Former
Knife Operator
Lap Cutter
Lay-Ups Assembler
Leather Carver
Leather Cutter
Leather Heel Breaster
Lens Cutter
Lining Cutter
Link Cutter
Lip-of-Shank Cutter
Loop Cutter
Looper
Machine Cutter
Machine Featheredger and Reducer
Machine Filler Shredder
Machine Heel-Seat Fitter
Machine Joint Cutter
Machine Leather Trimmer
Machine Operator
Machine Operator Slitter Technician
Machine Rough Rounder
Machine Skiver
Machine Splitter
Machine Stonecutter
Machine Trimmer
Machine Zipper Trimmer
Mink Slicer
Miter Cutter
Molded Rubber Goods Cutter
Molding Cutter
Mooner
Mottle Lay Up Operator
Mushroom Cutter
Nail Cutter
Nicker
Optical Glass Sawyer
Pad Cutter
Panel Machine Operator
Panel Machine Setter
Paper Box Cutter
Paper Cutter
Paper Cutting Machine Operator
Paper Slitter
Paring Machine Operator
Partition Making Machine Operator
Pattern Cutter
Pattern Grader
Peeler
Pepper Cutter
Perforating Machine Operator
Pickle Cutter
Pinker
Pinking Machine Operator
Pipe Blanks Cut-Off Saw Operator
Pipe Cutter
Pitting Machine Operator
Plate Shear Operator
Platen Press Operator
Plug Cutter
Plug Cutting Machine Operator
Ply Cutter
Pole-Peeling Machine Operator
Potato Peeler
Powder Cutting Operator
Power Shear Operator
Press Cutter
Presser
Print Cutter
Pulp Beater
Quartz Cutter
Quartz Mounter
Rag Cutting Machine Tender
Rawhide Trimmer
Ream Cutter
Record Cutter
Refractory Grinder Operator
Ripper
Ripshear Operator
Rock Cutter
Rock Splitter
Roll Cutter
Roll Sheeting Cutter
Roll Slicing Machine Tender
Roll-Up Guider Operator
Rope Cutter
Rotary Cutter
Rotary Cutter Operator
Rotary Machine Operator
Rotary Operator
Round Corner Cutter Operator
Rounder
Rounding Machine Operator
Rubber Cutter
Rubber Cutting Machine Tender
Rubber Splicer
Rubber Trimmer
Saddle Cutter
Saddler
Sample Book Maker
Sample Box Maker
Sample Cutter
Sample Sawyer
Saw Operator
Sawyer
Scabbler
Scaling Machine Operator
Scorer
Scroll Shear Operator
Seed Potato Cutter
Shade Cutter
Shaping Machine Operator
Shaving Machine Operator
Shear Operator
Shear Setter
Shearer
Shearing Machine Feeder
Shearing Machine Operator
Shearing Machine Tender
Sheet Taker
Sheeter
Sheeter Operator
Shredder
Shredder Tender
Sink Cutter
Sizing Machine Tender
Ski Top Trimmer
Skiver
Skiver Operator
Slasher
Slate Cutter
Slate Trimmer
Slice Plug Cutter Operator
Slicing Machine Operator
Slicing Machine Tender
Slitter
Slitter Cut Off Operator
Slitter Operator
Slitter-Scorer
Slitter-Scorer-Cut-Off Operator
Slitting Machine Operator
Slotter Operator
Smoking Tobacco Cutter Operator
Splitter Operator
Splitter Tender
Splitting Machine Operator
Square Shear Operator
Squaring Shear Operator
Stem Cutter
Stock Cutter
Stock Layer
Stone Circular Sawyer
Stone Driller
Stone Gang Sawyer
Stone Lathe Operator
Stone Sawyer
Stone Splitter
Stone Trimmer
Stonework Wire Sawyer
Straight Knife Machine Cutter
Strap Cutting Machine Operator
Strip Cutter
Strip Cutting Machine Operator
Stripper
Sugar Chipper Machine Operator
Tablet Machine Operator
Tablet Making Machine Operator
Tack Cutter
Tape Cutter
Tenoner Operator
Three Knife Trimmer
Threshing Operator
Tile Power Shear Operator
Tip Cutter
Tire Regrooving Machine Operator
Tobacco Cutter
Top Cutter
Tread Cutter
Trimmer
Trimmer Machine Operator
Trimmer Operator
Trimming Cutter
Trimming Machine Operator
Trimming Operator
Tube Cutter
Tube Cutter Operator
Tube Sizer Operator
Tube Skiver
Tuber Machine Cutter
Type Cutter
Umbrella Cutter
Unhairer
Unhairing Machine Operator
Unishear Operator
V Belt Skiver
V Groove Cutter
Vegetable Cutter
Vibrator Operator
Washer Engineer
Watch Crystal Cutter
Wax Cutter
Welt Cutter
Width Stripper
Window Cutter
Window Shade Cutter
Wire Sawyer
Wire Turning Machine Operator
Woodwind Reeds Cutter
Zipper Cutter

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A day in the life

Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.

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.
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
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.
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.
Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
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.
Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with 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.
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.
Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
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.
Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
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.
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.
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.

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.
Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.

Work styles

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.
Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.
Independence: Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
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.
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.
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.
Independence: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
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.

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

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

Examine, measure, and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring devices, such as rulers, micrometers, or scales.
Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material.
Stack and sort cut material for packaging, further processing, or shipping, according to types and sizes of material.

Work tasks

Review work orders, blueprints, specifications, or job samples to determine components, settings, and adjustments for cutting and slicing machines.
Remove defective or substandard materials from machines, and readjust machine components so that products meet standards.
Press buttons, pull levers, or depress pedals to start and operate cutting and slicing machines.
Adjust machine controls to alter position, alignment, speed, or pressure.
Maintain production records, such as quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced.
Monitor operation of cutting or slicing machines to detect malfunctions or to determine whether supplies need replenishment.
Start machines to verify setups, and make any necessary adjustments.
Remove completed materials or products from cutting or slicing machines, and stack or store them for additional processing.
Select and install machine components, such as cutting blades, rollers, and templates, according to specifications, using hand tools.
Move stock or scrap to and from machines manually, or by using carts, handtrucks, or lift trucks.
Clean and lubricate cutting machines, conveyors, blades, saws, or knives, using steam hoses, scrapers, brushes, or oil cans.
Feed stock into cutting machines, onto conveyors, or under cutting blades, by threading, guiding, pushing, or turning handwheels.
Position stock along cutting lines, or against stops on beds of scoring or cutting machines.
Type instructions on computer keyboards, push buttons to activate computer programs, or manually set cutting guides, clamps, and knives.
Change or replace saw blades, cables, cutter heads, and grinding wheels, using hand tools.
Mark cutting lines or identifying information on stock, using marking pencils, rulers, or scribes.
Turn cranks or press buttons to activate winches that move cars under sawing cables or saw frames.
Position width gauge blocks between blades, and level blades and insert wedges into frames to secure blades to frames.
Direct workers on cutting teams.
Tighten pulleys or add abrasives to maintain cutting speeds.
Cut stock manually to prepare for machine cutting, using tools such as knives, cleavers, handsaws, or hammers and chisels.
Sharpen cutting blades, knives, or saws, using files, bench grinders, or honing stones.

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
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.
Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
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.
Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
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.
Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
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.
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.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
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.
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.
Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
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.
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.

Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
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.
Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

Work abilities

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.
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.
Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
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.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
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.
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).
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
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.
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.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
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.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
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).
Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
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.
Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
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).
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.
Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
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.
Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.

Work skills

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.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
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.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
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.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the 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.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
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.
Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
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.
Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
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