Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

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.

• Troubleshooting problems with chemical manufacturing processes.
• Evaluating chemical equipment and processes for identifying ways for optimizing performance or for ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations.
• Performing tests and monitoring performance of processes throughout stages of production for determining degree of controlling over variables such as temperature, density, specific gravity, and pressure.
• Monitoring and analyzing data from processes and experiments.
• Determining most effective arrangement of operations such as mixing, crushing, heating, transferring, distilling, and drying.
• Preparing estimates of production costs and production progress reports for management.
• Directing activities of workers who are operating or are engaged in constructing and improving absorption, evaporation, or electromagnetic equipment.
• Performing laboratory studies of steps in manufacture of new products and testing proposed processes in small scale operation, such as a pilot plants.