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.

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.

• Monitoring product quality for ensuring compliance with standards and specifications.
• Setting up and conducting chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.
• Conducting chemical or physical laboratory tests to assisting scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.
• Compiling and interpreting results of tests and analyses.
• Preparing chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or creating experimental formulas.
• Maintaining, cleaning, or sterilizing laboratory instruments or equipment.
• Writing technical reports or preparing graphs or charts for documenting experimental results.
• Ordering and inventory materials for maintaining supplies.
• Directing or monitoring other workers producing chemical products.
• Operating experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.