85% | Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
68% | Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
56% | Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
50% | Physics - Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes. |
Skills
78% | Repairing - Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools. |
75% | Equipment Maintenance - Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed. |
72% | Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it. |
69% | Quality Control Analysis - Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. |
65% | Operation Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
65% | Operation and Control - Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
65% | Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. |
62% | Equipment Selection - Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job. |
60% | Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
56% | Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
56% | Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
56% | Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
53% | Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
50% | Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
Abilities
78% | 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. |
78% | 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. |
75% | Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
75% | 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. |
72% | 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. |
69% | Reaction Time - The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
62% | Visualization - The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
62% | Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
62% | Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
62% | 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. |
60% | Static Strength - The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. |
60% | Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
60% | Deductive Reasoning - The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
60% | Hearing Sensitivity - The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. |
56% | 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. |
56% | Extent Flexibility - The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. |
56% | 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. |
56% | Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
56% | 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). |
53% | 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. |
53% | Selective Attention - The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
53% | 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. |
50% | Speech Recognition - The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
50% | Auditory Attention - The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. |
50% | Category Flexibility - The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
50% | Visual Color Discrimination - The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. |
50% | Speech Clarity - The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
Work Activities
88% | Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment - Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. |
85% | Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment - Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft. |
76% | Handling and Moving Objects - Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
76% | Making Decisions and Solving Problems - Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
73% | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material - Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
73% | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge - Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
72% | Performing General Physical Activities - Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials. |
69% | Getting Information - Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
69% | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates - Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
67% | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work - Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
66% | Controlling Machines and Processes - Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
64% | Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment - Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles. |
62% | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information - Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
61% | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events - Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
60% | Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
58% | Communicating with Persons Outside Organization - Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
54% | Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings - Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
51% | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards - Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
50% | Interacting With Computers - Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |