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.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Identifying and correcting malfunctions of geothermal plants equipment, electrical systems, instrumentation, or controls.
• Installing, maintaining, or repairing ground or water source coupled heating pumps for heating and cooling residential or commercial building air or water.
• Monitoring and adjusting operations of geothermal power plants equipment or systems.
• Adjusting power production systems to meet loading and distribution demands.
• Calculating heat loss and heat gain factors for residential properties for determining heating and cooling required by installed geothermal systems.
• Designing and laying out geothermal heating systems according to property characteristics, heating and cooling requirements, piping and equipment requirements, applicable regulations, or other factors.
• Determining the types of geothermal loop system most suitable to a specific property and its heating and cooling needs.
• Digging trenches for system piping to appropriate depths and laying piping in trenches.