First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of material-moving machine and vehicle operators and helpers.
What you’d do
- Enforce safety rules and regulations.
- Interpret transportation or tariff regulations, shipping orders, safety regulations, or company policies and procedures for workers.
- Resolve worker problems or collaborate with employees to assist in problem resolution.
- Confer with customers, supervisors, contractors, or other personnel to exchange information or to resolve problems.
- Plan work assignments and equipment allocations to meet transportation, operations or production goals.
- Examine, measure, or weigh cargo or materials to determine specific handling requirements.
- Explain and demonstrate work tasks to new workers or assign training tasks to experienced workers.
- Review orders, production schedules, blueprints, or shipping or receiving notices to determine work sequences and material shipping dates, types, volumes, or destinations.
Skills that matter
- Active Listening
- Coordination
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Time Management
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
How to get there
Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree
Also called
- Driver Manager
- Fleet Manager
- Trainmaster
- Warehouse Supervisor
- Cargo Manager
- DC Supervisor (Distribution Center Supervisor)
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