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.

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.

• Stocking crash carts or other medical supplies.
• Maintaining records of inventory or equipment usage and ordering medical instruments or supplies when inventory is low.
• Organizing and assembling routine or specialty surgical instrument trays or other sterilized supplies, filling special requests as needed.
• Cleaning instruments to preparing them for sterilization.
• Operating and maintaining steam autoclaves, keeping records of loads completed, items in loads, and maintenance procedures performed.
• Recording sterilizer testing results.
• Disinfecting and sterilizing equipment such as respirators, hospital beds, or oxygen or dialysis equipment, using sterilizers, aerators, or washers.
• Starting equipment and observing gauges and equipment operation for detecting malfunctions and for ensuring equipment is operating to prescribed standards.
• Examining equipment for detecting leaks, worn or loose parts, or other indications of disrepair.
• Reporting defective equipment to appropriate supervisors or staff.
• Checking sterile supplies for ensuring that they are not outdated.