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.

Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

• Interpreting engineering drawings, sketches, or diagrams.
• Preparing schedules for equipment using or routine maintenance.
• Supervising production workers.
• Creating computer applications for manufacturing processes or operations, using computer aided design (CAD) or computer assisted manufacturing (CAM) tools.
• Overseeing or inspecting production processes.
• Preparing reports regarding inventories of raw materials or finished products.
• Modifying equipment or processes for improving resource or cost efficiency.
• Developing or conducting quality controlling tests for ensuring consistent production quality.
• Compiling operational data for developing cost or time estimates, schedules, or specifications.
• Collecting and analyzing data related to quality or industrial health and safety programs.
• Analyzing operational, production, economic, or other data, using statistical procedures.
• Preparing layouts of machinery or equipment, using drafting equipment or computer aided design (CAD) software.