First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, & Repairers

Also called: Maintenance Foreman, Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Supervisor

Career Cluster: Manufacturing
What they do:
Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of mechanics, installers, and repairers. May also advise customers on recommended services. Excludes team or work leaders.
On the job, you would:
  • 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.
KNOWLEDGE

Engineering and Technology
  • mechanical
Math and Science
  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • management
  • customer service
SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements
  • talking to others
People and Technology Systems
  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Resource Management
  • selecting and managing the best workers for a job
  • managing your time and the time of other people
ABILITIES

Visual Understanding
  • see hidden patterns
Hearing and Speech
  • recognize spoken words
  • speak clearly
Ideas and Logic
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • use rules to solve problems
Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say
PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Dependability
  • Attention to Detail
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Integrity
  • Leadership
  • Self Control
TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Data base user interface and query software
  • Microsoft Access
  • Yardi software
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • SAP software
EDUCATION


high school diploma/GED or some college
usually needed
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JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $118,980.00
Median: $75,820.00
Low: $46,070.00
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