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Career Details :: First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Transportation and Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators

Description

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators and helpers.

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

• Recommends and implements measures to improve worker motivation, equipment performance, work methods, and customer services.
• Maintains or verifies time, transportation, financial, inventory, and personnel records
• Drives vehicles or operates machines or equipment.
• Resolves worker problems or assists workers in solving problems.
• Computes and estimates cash, payroll, transportation, personnel, and storage requirements, using calculator.
• Prepares, compiles, and submits reports on work activities, operations, production, and work-related accidents.
• Interprets transportation and tariff regulations, shipping orders, safety regulations, and company policies and procedures for workers.
• Recommends or implements personnel actions, such as hiring, firing, and performance evaluations.
• Reviews orders, production schedules, and shipping/receiving notices to determine work sequence and material shipping dates, type, volume, and destinations.
• Confers with customers, supervisors, contractors, and other personnel to exchange information and resolve problems.
• Receives telephone or radio reports of emergencies and dispatches personnel and vehicle in response to request.
• Inspects or tests materials, stock, vehicles, equipment, and facilities to locate defects, meet maintenance or production specifications, and verify safety standards.
• Requisitions needed personnel, supplies, equipment, parts, or repair services.
• Plans and establishes transportation routes, work schedules, and assignments and allocates equipment to meet transportation, operations, or production goals.
• Explains and demonstrates work tasks to new workers or assigns workers to experienced workers for further training.
• Repairs or schedules repair and preventive maintenance of vehicles and other equipment.
• Directs workers in transportation or related services, such as pumping, moving, storing, and loading/unloading of materials or people.
• Examines, measures, and weighs cargo or materials to determine specific handling requirements.
• Assists workers in performing tasks, such as coupling railroad cars or loading vehicles.

Related Careers

• First-Line Supervisors, Administrative Support
  
• First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
  
• Industrial Production Managers
  
• Mates, Ship, Boat, and Barge
  
• Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
  
• Private Sector Executives
  
• Public Transportation Inspectors
  
• Storage and Distribution Managers
  
• Transportation Managers
  
• Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Comprehension
• Written Expression
• Number Facility

General Work Activities

• Communicating With Other Workers
• Guiding, Directing & Motivating Subordinates
• Coordinating Work & Activities of Others
• Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
• Establishing & Maintaining Relationships

Important Skills

• Speaking
  
• Coordination
  
• Active Listening
  
• Reading Comprehension
  
• Problem Identification
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others
• Consequence of Error
• Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

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