First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
- Bright Outlook
- Rapid Growth
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.
What you’d do
- Inspect work progress, equipment, or construction sites to verify safety or to ensure that specifications are met.
- Read specifications, such as blueprints, to determine construction requirements or to plan procedures.
- Supervise, coordinate, or schedule the activities of construction or extractive workers.
- Assign work to employees, based on material or worker requirements of specific jobs.
- Coordinate work activities with other construction project activities.
- Estimate material or worker requirements to complete jobs.
- Analyze worker or production problems and recommend solutions, such as improving production methods or implementing motivational plans.
- Order or requisition materials or supplies.
Skills that matter
- Coordination
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Monitoring
How to get there
Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree
Also called
- Construction Foreman
- Construction Supervisor
- Electrical Supervisor
- Roustabout Field Supervisor
- Coal Mine Production Foreman
- Field Operations Supervisor
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