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"Packaging and Filling Machine Operator and Tender"
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: "Packaging and Filling Machine Operator and Tender"

1) 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.


2) 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.


3) 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.


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


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


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


7) 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.


8) 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).


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


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


11) 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.


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


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


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


16) 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.


17) 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.


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


19) 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.


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


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


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


23) Visual Color Discrimination -- The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.


24) 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.


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


26) 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.


27) Visualization -- The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.


28) Number Facility -- The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.


29) Speed of Closure -- The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.


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


Job Description for "Packaging and Filling Machine Operator and Tender" continued here...

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


"Packaging and Filling Machine Operator and Tender"   Holland / RIASEC Career Code:  R-C-E        SOC:  51-9111.00


 

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