"Welder and Cutter"

Job Description - Part 4 - Abilities Needed

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

Job Satisfaction - One Secret To Achieving It

Abilities Needed for: "Welder and Cutter"

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) 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.

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

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

5) 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.

6) 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).

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

8) 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.

9) Wrist-Finger Speed -- The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.