"Power Plant Operator"

Job Description - Part 4 - Abilities Needed

Part 1
Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
Knowledge

Abilities Needed for: "Power Plant Operator"

1) Oral Comprehension -- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

2) Deductive Reasoning -- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.


3) Oral Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.


4) Inductive Reasoning -- The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).


5) 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 there is a problem.

6) Selective Attention -- The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.


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


8) Written Comprehension -- The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.


9) 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.

10) 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.


11) 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).

12) Written Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.


13) Speech Recognition -- The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

14) Category Flexibility -- The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.


15) 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.


16) Control Precision -- The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

Job Description for "Power Plant Operator" continued here...

Part 1
Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
Knowledge

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