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.

• Moving controlling settings for making necessary adjustments on equipment units affecting speeds of chemical reactions, quality, or yields.
• Monitoring recording instruments, flowmeters, panel lights, or other indicators and listening for warning signals, for verifying conformity of the processes conditions.
• Controlling or operating chemical processes or systems of machines, using panelboards, controlling boards, or semi automatic equipment.
• Recording operating data, such as the processes conditions, the tests results, or the instruments readings.
• Conferring with technical and supervisory personnel for reporting or resolving conditions affecting safety, efficiency, or product quality.
• Drawing samples of products and conducting quality controlling tests for monitoring processing and for ensuring that standards are met.
• Regulating or shutting down equipment during emergency situations, as directed by supervisory personnel.
• Starting pumps for washing and rinsing reactor vessels, to exhaust gases or vapors, to regulating the flow of oil, steam, air, or perfume to towers, or to adding products for converting or blending vessels.