Career Details :: First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Extractive Workers
Description
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of extractive workers and their helpers. Manager/Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishments where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work, and may also engage in the same extractive work as the workers they supervise.
Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Tasks
- Locates, measures, and marks materials and site location, using measuring and marking equipment.
- Assists workers engaged in extraction activities, using hand tools and equipment.
- Records information, such as personnel, production, and operational data, on specified forms.
- Analyzes and resolves worker problems and recommends motivational plans.
- Analyzes and plans extraction process of geological materials.
- Recommends measures to improve production methods and equipment performance to increase efficiency and safety.
- Assigns work to employees, using material and worker requirements data.
- Suggests and initiates personnel actions, such as promotions, transfers, and hires.
- Examines and inspects equipment, site, and materials, to verify specifications are met.
- Confers with staff and workers to ensure production personnel problems are resolved.
- Directs and leads workers engaged in extraction of geological materials.
- Orders materials, supplies, and repair of equipment and machinery.
- Trains workers in construction methods and operation of equipment.
- Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in the extraction of geological materials.
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- Management Analysts
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Communicating With Other Workers
- Coordinating Work & Activities of Others
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
Important Skills
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Coordination
- Instructing
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Time Management
Frequent Work Context
- Job-Required Social Interaction
- Consequence of Error
- Supervise, Coach, Train Others
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
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