Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• 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.

• Brief workers on radiation levels in working areas.
• Analyzing samples, such as air or water samples, for contaminants or other elements.
• Calculating safe radiation exposure times for personnel using plants contamination readings and prescribed safe levels of radiation.
• Monitoring personnel for determining the amounts and intensities of radiation exposure.
• Informing supervisors when individual exposures or area radiation levels approach maximum permissible limits.
• Instructing personnel in radiation safety procedures and demonstrating the usage of protective clothing and equipment.
• Determining intensities and types of radiation in working areas, equipment, or materials, using radiation detectors or other instruments.
• Collecting samples of air, water, gases, or solids for determining radioactivity levels of contamination.
• Setting up equipment that automatically detects area radiation deviations and testing detection equipment for ensuring its accuracy.