"Heat Treating Equipment Setter, Operator, and Tender, Metal and Plastic"

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: "Heat Treating Equipment Setter, Operator, and Tender, Metal and Plastic"

1) 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.

2) 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.


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


4) Reaction Time -- The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.


5) Static Strength -- The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.

6) 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.


7) 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.


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


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) 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.


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

12) 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.


13) 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.

14) Stamina -- The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.


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


16) 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).


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


18) Gross Body Coordination -- The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.


19) Far Vision -- The ability to see details at a distance.


20) Hearing Sensitivity -- The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.

Job Description for "Heat Treating Equipment Setter, Operator, and Tender, Metal and Plastic" continued here...

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

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