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.

• Purchasing and stocking feeding and medical supplies.
• Bathing and grooming animals.
• Exercising animals for keeping them in healthy conditions.
• Feeding and water animals, and cleaning and disinfecting pens, cages, yards, and hutches.
• Examining animals for detecting symptoms of illness or injury.
• Placing vaccines in drinking water, injecting vaccines, or dusting air with vaccine powder for protecting animals from diseases.
• Selecting animals to be bred, and semen specimens to be used, according to knowledge of animals, genealogies, traits, and desired offspring characteristics.
• Treating minor injuries and ailments and contacting veterinarians for obtaining treatment for animals with serious illnesses or injuries.
• Observing animals in heats for detecting the approaching of estrus and exercising animals for inducing or hastening estrus, if necessary.
• Recording animal characteristics such as weights, growth patterns, and diets.
• Exhibit animals at shows.
• Building hutches, pens, and fenced yards.