Pest Control Job Skills

Performing General Physical Activities

Performing physical activities that need substantial use of your arms and legs and moving your full body, like climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, bending, and handling of materials.

Handling and Moving Objects

Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.

Checking Clobber , Structures, or Material

Checking apparatus, structures, or materials to spot the reason behind mess ups or other issues or defects.

Guesstimating the Quantifiable Traits of Products, Events, or Info

Guesstimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials wanted to perform a work activity.

Getting Info

Observing, receiving, and otherwise getting info from all applicable sources.

Controlling Machines and Processes

Using either control mechanisms or direct activity to operate machines or processes (excluding PCs or autos).

Information Ordering

The facility to organize things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a particular rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, photographs, mathematical operations).

Operation and Control

Controlling operations of hardware or systems.

Mathematics

Using mathematics to solve problems.

Gear Selection

Determining the type of tools and gear wanted to perform a job.

Judgment and decision-making

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to select the most suitable one.

Chemistry

Awareness of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, alarm signals, production systems, and disposal strategies.

Mechanical

Understanding of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and upkeep.