Skill Registry

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Library Technician — evaluating whether an OCLC copy-cataloging match is safe to accept, triaging an interlibrary loan request or lending dispute, deciding when a late serial issue crosses into claim territory, or routing a cataloging/circulation edge case to the supervising librarian instead of guessing.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse (LPN/LVN) — running a change-in-condition check on a long-term-care resident with the Stop & Watch tool, deciding whether a delegated task or verbal order falls inside your state's LPN/LVN task list, escalating a decline via SBAR to an on-call RN or physician when no RN is on-site, or delegating tasks to CNAs within the five rights while also receiving delegation from an RN.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a lifeguard or ski patroller — designing or auditing a water/mountain Emergency Action Plan, staffing a guard zone or terrain closure, triaging a multi-victim water or avalanche incident, deciding whether a rescue needs reach/throw/row/go escalation, or writing an incident report that will survive legal review.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a lighting technician — planning power distribution and phase balance for a lighting rig, patching and addressing DMX fixtures across universes, checking a rigging point's load against its working load limit before a hang, or troubleshooting a fixture, cue, or followspot failure during tech or a live show.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a loan officer — qualifying a borrower on DTI/LTV, structuring a loan (product, rate, points, down payment) against those ratios, managing TRID disclosure timing and rate-lock decisions, or triaging a file for underwriting handoff. Distinct from credit-analyst (owns the underwriting/credit-memo analysis) — this role originates and packages, it doesn't underwrite.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a locker room, coatroom, or dressing room attendant — running a claim-check system for coats or valuables, setting towel/linen par for a locker room, handling a lost-or-stolen-item claim, staffing a locker room or coat check for a peak event, or writing up an incident report after a theft or slip.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Locksmith and Safe Repairer — verifying authority before a lockout or entry job, deciding rekey vs. cylinder replacement, designing or repairing a master key system, translating a safe-buying question into a burglary/fire rating class, or scoping a lost-combination safe job.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a locomotive engineer — planning a brake application and train-handling sequence for a loaded train on a descending grade, interpreting a signal aspect and determining absolute versus permissive authority, managing slack-action risk during a throttle-to-brake transition, reasoning about a positive train control (PTC) penalty-brake enforcement event, or evaluating an Hours of Service rest-period question before accepting or continuing an assignment.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Lodging/Hotel Manager — setting room rates against occupancy forecast (revenue management), evaluating overbooking risk, diagnosing a RevPAR or ADR variance, managing a guest service recovery situation, or balancing housekeeping/labor cost against occupancy swings.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Log Grader and Scaler — computing board-foot volume of a log or truckload under the Scribner/Doyle/International 1/4-inch scale rules, assigning a log grade (peeler/sawmill/utility) from measured defect, calculating a sweep/crook/rot deduction, or resolving a scale dispute between a logger or landowner and a mill.

Use when a task needs senior logging-equipment-operator judgment — matching a feller-buncher/skidder/forwarder system to a cutting block's slope and stand, sequencing machines to avoid a felling-vs-extraction bottleneck, deciding when winch-assist or cable yarding replaces ground-based equipment, handling a hung tree without leaving the cab, or reconciling machine-hour cost against delivered $/ton.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Logistician — sizing safety stock and reorder points for a SKU-location, choosing a transportation mode or shipment frequency on a specific lane, evaluating a distribution-network or DC-count change, reconciling a demand forecast into an inventory plan, or diagnosing why a service-level or freight-cost number moved.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Logistics Analyst — selecting shipping mode (parcel/LTL/FTL/intermodal) against a weight-and-cube breakeven, comparing carriers on total landed cost rather than quoted rate, auditing a freight invoice against the bill of lading and contract rates, calculating on-time-in-full (OTIF) performance, or analyzing a shipping lane's volume and cost trend.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Logistics Engineer — evaluating the total-cost tradeoff of adding or consolidating distribution facilities, using a center-of-gravity model as a starting point for facility location, slotting a warehouse by pick velocity (ABC classification), or sizing facility throughput/capacity against peak rather than average demand.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Loss Prevention Manager — decomposing a shrink number into external/internal/administrative/vendor causes, triaging exception-based-reporting (EBR) flags into an investigation, deciding whether a shoplifting or refund-fraud case meets the evidentiary bar for apprehension, investigating suspected employee theft or collusion, or building the case for loss-prevention technology/staffing spend against measured ROI.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Machinery Maintenance Worker — running a lubrication/PM route and deciding what's normal wear versus a leading indicator worth flagging, setting duty-cycle-adjusted relube intervals and grease quantities, checking belt tension/deflection against spec, or deciding whether a route finding gets corrected on the spot versus escalated to a mechanic.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Machinist — reading GD&T (true position, MMC bonus tolerance) to accept or reject a first-article part, deciding whether a chip-color or tool-wear signal means adjusting speeds and feeds, computing a tolerance stack-up across mating parts before committing to nominal dimensions, or accounting for thermal expansion on a tight-tolerance measurement.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a hotel guest room attendant / housekeeper — sequencing a room turn under a per-room time budget, deciding checkout vs. stay-over vs. deep-clean priority, handling a bloodborne-pathogen or sharps find, resolving a "Do Not Disturb" conflict, or logging guest property found in a room.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Mail Clerk (mailroom operator, non-postal) — reconciling why a department's meter usage spiked above baseline, screening a package against suspicious-mail indicators, logging chain-of-custody on a certified or signed-for item, resolving a persistently misrouted internal addressee, or rate-shopping outgoing mail against carrier weight/zone breaks.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a licensed manicurist/pedicurist — deciding whether a nail or skin finding is safe to service or needs a physician referral, choosing between soak-off and mechanical removal for a gel or acrylic enhancement, sequencing disinfection contact-time against a stacked multi-client shift, or diagnosing why an enhancement lifted, discolored, or resisted removal.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Manufacturing Engineer — designing or diagnosing a workholding/fixture against a print's GD&T datum scheme, running or reading a process capability study (Cpk/Ppk) and deciding whether a process is fit to release, computing a tolerance stack-up to decide worst-case versus statistical (RSS) tolerancing, building or reviewing a PFMEA and control plan for a new process, or computing OEE to separate a real capacity shortfall from a performance or quality loss. Distinct from an industrial-engineer (owns labor/line balancing against takt time, facility layout, time standards) and a quality-control-systems-manager (owns the QMS, non-conformance disposition, and batch-release decision) — this role owns the process and tooling engineering that makes a print's tolerances physically achievable and repeatable.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Manufacturing Potter — calculating wet-form dimensions from a target fired size and the clay body's total shrinkage rate, verifying documented glaze fit before selecting a glaze for a clay body, slowing firing ramp rate through critical temperature ranges like quartz inversion, or verifying actual heat-work with pyrometric cones rather than the kiln controller's readout alone.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Marine Engineer / Naval Architect — computing displacement and hydrostatic particulars from hull-form coefficients, running an intact stability (GM/righting-arm) check against IMO IS Code criteria, calculating minimum freeboard under the International Convention on Load Lines, estimating required propulsion power via the Admiralty coefficient method, or reviewing a stability booklet or midship scantling against a classification society's rules.

Use when a task needs senior marketing-strategist judgment — positioning a product, choosing and pruning channels, splitting budget across brand and performance, evaluating campaign ideas, or diagnosing why demand or CAC has gone sideways.