First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of mechanics, installers, and repairers. May also advise customers on recommended services. Excludes team or work leaders.
What you’d do
- Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
- Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.
- Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.
- Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
- Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.
- Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors.
- Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions.
- Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.
Skills that matter
- Monitoring
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Coordination
- Critical Thinking
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Speaking
How to get there
Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree
Also called
- Maintenance Foreman
- Maintenance Manager
- Maintenance Supervisor
- Service Manager
- Electrical and Instrumentation Supervisor (E and I Supervisor)
- Facilities Maintenance Supervisor
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