First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel.
• Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
• Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.
• Counsel employees about work-related issues and assist employees to correct job-skill deficiencies.
• Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.
• Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors.
• Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.
• Conduct or arrange for worker training in safety, repair, or maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use.
• Investigate accidents or injuries and prepare reports of findings.
• Confer with personnel, such as management, engineering, quality control, customer, or union workers' representatives, to coordinate work activities, resolve employee grievances, or identify and review resource needs.
• Recommend or initiate personnel actions, such as hires, promotions, transfers, discharges, or disciplinary measures.
• Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.
• Develop, implement, or evaluate maintenance policies and procedures.
• Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
• Meet with vendors or suppliers to discuss products used in repair work.
• Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions.
• 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.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Participate in budget preparation and administration, coordinating purchasing and documentation and monitoring departmental expenditures.
• Compile operational or personnel records, such as time and production records, inventory data, repair or maintenance statistics, or test results.
• Develop or implement electronic maintenance programs or computer information management systems.
• Design equipment configurations to meet personnel needs.
• Review, evaluate, accept, and coordinate completion of work bid from contractors.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)