"Mine Cutting and Channeling Machine 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: "Mine Cutting and Channeling Machine Operator"

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

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) 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.


4) 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.


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

6) 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.


7) 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.


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


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

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


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

12) 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.


13) 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.

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


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


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


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


18) Auditory Attention -- The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.


19) 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.


20) Extent Flexibility -- The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.


21) 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).


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


23) 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.

Job Description for "Mine Cutting and Channeling Machine Operator" continued here...

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

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