At a glance
Description Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, such as inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators. Excludes team or work leaders.
- Abattoir Supervisor
- Abrasive and Polished Products Supervisor
- Acid Supervisor
- Aerosol Supervisor
- Aging Department Supervisor
- Agricultural Chemicals Shift Superintendent
- Alteration Workroom Supervisor
- Alum Plant Supervisor
- Alumina Plant Supervisor
- Aluminum Boat Assembly Supervisor
- Aluminum Fabrication Supervisor
- Ammunition Supervisor
- Anhydrous Ammonia Production Supervisor
- Anode Crew Supervisor
- Art Objects Supervisor
- Artificial Flowers Supervisor
- Asbestos Pipe Supervisor
- Asbestos Textile Supervisor
- Asbestos-Cement Sheet Supervisor
- Assembly and Packing Supervisor
Alternate titles
- Assembly Department Supervisor
- Assembly Line Supervisor
- Assembly Room Supervisor
- Assembly Supervisor
- Automatic Machines Supervisor
- Automobile Assembly Supervisor
- Automotive Tire-Testing Supervisor
- Bakery Supervisor
- Beam Department Supervisor
- Beater Boss
- Beater Room Supervisor
- Beehive Kiln Supervisor
- Beet End Supervisor
- Belt and Link Assembly Supervisor
- Bindery Supervisor
- Bit and Shank Department Supervisor
- Blast Furnace Auxiliaries Supervisor
- Blast Furnace Supervisor
- Bleach Supervisor
- Blending Supervisor
- Blooming Mill Supervisor
- Blueprinting and Photocopy Supervisor
- Board Mill Supervisor
- Boat Cleaning Supervisor
- Boat Outfitting Supervisor
- Boatbuilder Supervisor
- Boiler Operators Supervisor
- Boiler Tenders Supervisor
- Boilermaking Supervisor
- Bonding Supervisor
- Bone Plant Supervisor
- Boots and Shoes Supervisor
- Bottle House Cleaners Supervisor
- Boxing and Pressing Supervisor
- Breaker Boss
- Brew House Supervisor
- Briar Shop Supervisor
- Brine Supervisor
- Brineyard Supervisor
- Broommaking Supervisor
- Brush Fabrication Supervisor
- Burling and Joining Supervisor
- Burner Supervisor
- Burning Supervisor
- Butcher Supervisor
- Byproducts Supervisor
- Cabinetmaker Supervisor
- Calender Supervisor
- Calendering Supervisor
- Candle Making Supervisor
- Candy Supervisor
- Canvas Goods Supervisor
- Cap and Hat Production Supervisor
- Car Installations Supervisor
- Carbon Electrodes Supervisor
- Carbon Paper Coating Supervisor
- Carding Supervisor
- Carton and Can Supply Supervisor
- Casing Supervisor
- Casting and Pasting Supervisor
- Caustic Cresylate Shift Superintendent
- Cell Efficiency Supervisor
- Cell Feed Department Supervisor
- Cell Operation Supervisor
- Cell Room Supervisor
- Cellar Supervisor
- Cereal Supervisor
- Channel Process Supervisor
- Char House Supervisor
- Chemical Plant Operator Supervisor
- Chemical Processing Supervisor
- Chemical Supervisor
- Chest Painting and Sealing Supervisor
- Chocolate and Cocoa Processing Supervisor
- Cigar Making Machine Supervisor
- Cigar Making Supervisor
- Cigar Tobacco Processing Supervisor
- Clay Preparation Supervisor
- Clay Shop Supervisor
- Cleaning Supervisor
- Cloth Grader Supervisor
- Cloth Winding Supervisor
- Coal Handling Supervisor
- Coal Yard Supervisor
- Coating Mixer Supervisor
- Coating Supervisor
- Coffee Supervisor
- Coil Winding Supervisor
- Coin Machine Supervisor
- Coke Handling Supervisor
- Cold Rolling Supervisor
- Cold Storage Superintendent
- Color Paste Mixing Supervisor
- Component Assembler Supervisor
- Composing Room Supervisor
- Compounding and Finishing Supervisor
- Compressed Yeast Supervisor
- Concrete Batching and Mixing Plant Supervisor
- Concrete Block Plant Supervisor
- Concrete Foreman
- Concrete Pipe Plant Supervisor
- Concrete Stone Fabricating Supervisor
- Concrete Stone Finishing Supervisor
- Conditioning Yard Supervisor
- Continuous Weld Pipe Mill Supervisor
- Converter Supervisor
- Converting Supervisor
- Cook House Supervisor
- Cook Room Supervisor
- Cooking Supervisor
- Cooperage Shop Supervisor
- Corduroy Cutting Supervisor
- Coremaker Supervisor
- Corncob Pipe Manufacturing Supervisor
- Corncob Pipe Supervisor
- Cosmetics Supervisor
- Costuming Supervisor
- Covering and Lining Supervisor
- Crusher Supervisor
- Cured Meat Packing Supervisor
- Cured Meats Supervisor
- Curing Room Supervisor
- Cutting and Boning Supervisor
- Cutting and Sewing Department Supervisor
- Cutting and Splicing Supervisor
- Cutting Department Supervisor
- Cutting Supervisor
- Dairy Processing Supervisor
- Decorating and Assembly Supervisor
- Decorating Supervisor
- Defluorinated Phosphate Production Supervisor
- Dehydrogenation Supervisor
- Dental Laboratory Supervisor
- Dials Supervisor
- Diamond Finishing Supervisor
- Die Cast Supervisor
- Die Casting Supervisor
- Dimension Warehouse Supervisor
- Display Fabrication Supervisor
- Distilling Department Supervisor
- Dock Supervisor
- Drawing Kiln Supervisor
- Drawing Supervisor
- Dried Yeast Supervisor
- Dry Cell Assembly Supervisor
- Dry Cleaning Supervisor
- Dry Paste Supervisor
- Dry Starch Supervisor
- Dry-Cell Assembly Supervisor
- Dry-Starch Supervisor
- Drying and Winding Supervisor
- Drying Supervisor
- Dye-House Supervisor
- Dyer Supervisor
- Edging Supervisor
- Egg Processing Supervisor
- Electrical Assembly Supervisor
- Electrical Supervisor
- Electronic Coils Supervisor
- Electronic Computer Subassembly Supervisor
- Electronics Processing Supervisor
- Electronics Production Supervisor
- Electronics Supervisor
- Electrotyping and Stereotyping Supervisor
- Embroidery Supervisor
- Endless Belt Weaving Department Floor Supervisor
- Engine Assembly Supervisor
- Engraving Supervisor
- Epoxy Fabrication Supervisor
- Erection Shop Supervisor
- Esters and Emulsifiers Supervisor
- Evaporator Supervisor
- Explosive Operator Supervisor
- Extruding Department Supervisor
- Extrusion Supervisor
- Fabric Coating Supervisor
- Fabrication and Assembly Supervisor
- Fabrication Department Supervisor
- Fabrication Supervisor
- Facepiece Line Supervisor
- Factory Supervisor
- Feed House Supervisor
- Feed Mill Supervisor
- Fence Manufacture Supervisor
- Fence Supervisor
- Fermenting Cellars Supervisor
- Fertilizer Processing Supervisor
- Fertilizer Supervisor
- Fiber-Locking Supervisor
- Fiberglass Boat Assembly Supervisor
- Fiberglass Pipe Covering Supervisor
- Filling and Packing Supervisor
- Film Processing Shift Supervisor
- Film Processing Supervisor
- Filter Plant Supervisor
- Filtration Supervisor
- Final Assembly and Packing Supervisor
- Finishing and Shipping Supervisor
- Finishing Area Supervisor
- Finishing Department Supervisor
- Finishing Room Supervisor
- Finishing Supervisor
- Firearms Assembly Supervisor
- Fireworks Assembly Supervisor
- First-Line Production Supervisor
- Fish Bait Processing Supervisor
- Fish Processing Supervisor
- Fitting Supervisor
- Flame Cutting Supervisor
- Foam Cutting Supervisor
- Forge Shop Supervisor
- Forming and Assembling Supervisor
- Forming Department Supervisor
- Forming Supervisor
- Foundry Supervisor
- Frame Sample and Pattern Supervisor
- Framing Mill Supervisor
- Fruit Grading Supervisor
- Fur Dressing Supervisor
- Furnace Process Supervisor
- Furniture Assembly Supervisor
- Furrier Shop Supervisor
- Garment Manufacturing Supervisor
- Garment Supervisor
- Gasket Supervisor
- Gauger Chief
- Gelatin Plant Supervisor
- General Handling Supervisor
- Glass Cut-Off Supervisor
- Glaze Supervisor
- Glazing Department Supervisor
- Glue Specialty Supervisor
- Glycerin Supervisor
- Grain and Yeast Plants Supervisor
- Grain Elevator Superintendent
- Grease Refining Supervisor
- Green End Department Supervisor
- Grinding and Spraying Supervisor
- Grinding Supervisor
- Hairspring Fabrication Supervisor
- Hand Cigar Making Supervisor
- Hand Silvering Supervisor
- Hardboard Supervisor
- Hearing-Aid Assembly Supervisor
- Heat Treat Supervisor
- Heating and Blending Supervisor
- Heating Plant Superintendent
- Hide House Supervisor
- Hot Dip Plating Supervisor
- Hot Dip Tinning Supervisor
- Hot Strip Mill Supervisor
- Hot Wound Spring Production Supervisor
- House Furnishings Supervisor
- Hydraulic Pressure Auto Frettage Machine Operator Supervisor
- Hydrochloric Area Supervisor
- Hydroelectric Station Chief
- Ice House Supervisor
- Incinerator Plant General Supervisor
- Incinerator Plant Supervisor
- Industrial Chemicals Supervisor
- Insecticide Supervisor
- Inspecting Supervisor
- Inspection and Testing Supervisor
- Inspection Supervisor
- Instant Potato Processing Supervisor
- Instrument Assembly Supervisor
- Instrument Maintenance Supervisor
- Insulation Supervisor
- Jewel Supervisor
- Jewelry Department Supervisor
- Keymodule Assembly Supervisor
- Knitting Supervisor
- Laboratory Supervisor
- Lace Tearing Supervisor
- Lamp Shades Supervisor
- Last Model Department Supervisor
- Laundry Supervisor
- Leather Products Supervisor
- Lime Supervisor
- Line Supervisor
- Liquefaction and Regasification Supervisor
- Liquefaction Supervisor
- Liquid Yeast Supervisor
- Litharge Supervisor
- Loading and Unloading Supervisor
- Loading Rack Supervisor
- Loom Fixer Supervisor
- Lubrication Supervisor
- Lump Room Supervisor
- Machine Adjuster Leader
- Machine Assembler Supervisor
- Machine Group Leader
- Machine Setter Supervisor
- Machine Shop Supervisor
- Machining and Assembly Supervisor
- Machining Supervisor
- Machinist Supervisor
- Mainspring Fabrication Supervisor
- Major Appliance Assembly Supervisor
- Malt House Supervisor
- Malted Milk Supervisor
- Manufactured Buildings Supervisor
- Manufacturing Shift Supervisor
- Manufacturing Supervisor
- Maple Products Supervisor
- Matrix Supervisor
- Mattress and Boxsprings Supervisor
- Melt House Supervisor
- Melter Supervisor
- Melting Supervisor
- Merchant Mill Rolling and Finishing Supervisor
- Metal Cans Supervisor
- Metal Fabricating Supervisor
- Metal Fabrication Supervisor
- Metal Furniture Assembly Supervisor
- Metal Hanging Supervisor
- Metalizing Supervisor
- Meters Superintendent
- Microfilm Duplicating Unit Supervisor
- Mill House Supervisor
- Mill Labor Supervisor
- Mill Platform Supervisor
- Mill Supervisor
- Miller Supervisor
- Milling Supervisor
- Mirror Department Supervisor
- Mirror Fabrication Supervisor
- Mirror Manufacturing Department Supervisor
- Mixing Supervisor
- Model and Pattern Supervisor
- Model Making Supervisor
- Mold Cleaning and Storage Supervisor
- Mold Making Plastics Sheets Supervisor
- Mold Making Supervisor
- Mold Shop Supervisor
- Mold Yard Supervisor
- Mold Yarn Supervisor
- Molding Supervisor
- Motion Picture Equipment Supervisor
- Motor Vehicle Assembly Supervisor
- Musical Instrument Supervisor
- Natural Gas Field Processing Supervisor
- Natural Gas Plant Supervisor
- Needle Process Felt Goods Supervisor
- Net Making Supervisor
- Nitroglycerin Supervisor
- Nuclear Power Plant Operations Supervisor
- Nut Processing Supervisor
- Nutritional Yeast Supervisor
- Offset Plate Preparation Supervisor
- Open Hearth Stockyard Supervisor
- Optical Instrument Assembly Supervisor
- Optical Instruments Supervisor
- Ordnance Truck Installation Supervisor
- Outside Machinist Supervisor
- Ovens Supervisor
- Packaging Supervisor
- Packing and Wrapping Supervisor
- Packing House Supervisor
- Packing Room Supervisor
- Packing Supervisor
- Paint Department Supervisor
- Paint Roller Covers Supervisor
- Paint Supervisor
- Painter Supervisor
- Painting Department Supervisor
- Paper Coating Supervisor
- Paper Machine Supervisor
- Paper Mill Supervisor
- Paper Products Supervisor
- Paper Testing Supervisor
- Parachute Manufacturing Supervisor
- Parachute Supervisor
- Particle Board Supervisor
- Paste Mixing Supervisor
- Paste Plant Supervisor
- Paster Supervisor
- Pattern Chain Maker Supervisor
- Pattern Grader Supervisor
- Pattern Marking Supervisor
- Pattern Shop Supervisor
- Permanent Mold Supervisor
- Pharmaceutical Compounding Supervisor
- Phosphatic Fertilizer Supervisor
- Phosphoric Acid Supervisor
- Phosphorus Processing Supervisor
- Photoengraving Supervisor
- Photographic Supervisor
- Picking Supervisor
- Pig Machine Supervisor
- Pigment Making Supervisor
- Pipe and Boiler Covers Supervisor
- Pipe Finishing Supervisor
- Pipe Joints Supervisor
- Pipe Line Maintenance Supervisor
- Pipe Manufacture Supervisor
- Pipe Supervisor
- Pit and Auxiliaries Supervisor
- Pit Supervisor
- Plant Supervisor
- Plastic Sheets Finishing Supervisor
- Plastic Sheets Supervisor
- Plastics Fabrication Supervisor
- Plastics Supervisor
- Plate Finishing Supervisor
- Plate Heating Supervisor
- Plate Rolling Supervisor
- Platform Mill Supervisor
- Plating and Point Assembly Supervisor
- Pleating Supervisor
- Poleyard Supervisor
- Pond Supervisor
- Porcelain Enameling Supervisor
- Pot Lining Supervisor
- Pot Room Supervisor
- Potato Chip Processing Supervisor
- Poultry Processing Supervisor
- Powder and Primer Canning Leader
- Powdered Metal Supervisor
- Powdered Sugar Supervisor
- Power Plant Operators Supervisor
- Power Reactor Supervisor
- Precast and Prestressed Concrete Supervisor
- Precipitator Supervisor
- Prefabricated Homes Field Assembly Supervisor
- Preparation Department Supervisor
- Preparation Plant Supervisor
- Preparation Supervisor
- Prepress Manager
- Prepress Supervisor
- Press Hand Supervisor
- Press Room Supervisor
- Press Supervisor
- Pressing Department Supervisor
- Pressure Supervisor
- Primer Supervisor
- Print Line Supervisor
- Print Production Coordinator
- Printed Circuit Board Assembly Supervisor
- Printed Circuit Board Testing Supervisor
- Printing and Stamping Supervisor
- Printing Manager
- Printing Shop Supervisor
- Printing Supervisor
- Printing Worker Supervisor
- Process Area Supervisor
- Processing Supervisor
- Processing Talc and Borate Supervisor
- Product Inspection Supervisor
- Production Department Supervisor
- Production Machine Shop Supervisor
- Production Manager
- Production Reproduction Manager
- Production Shift Supervisor
- Production Superintendent
- Production Supervisor
- Production Zone Leader
- Prop Making Supervisor
- Properties Supervisor
- Protective Signal Superintendent
- Publication Production Supervisor
- Pulp House Supervisor
- Pulp Plant Supervisor
- Pumping Station Supervisor
- Punch and Assembly Department Supervisor
- Purification Supervisor
- Putty and Caulking Supervisor
- Puttying and Calking Supervisor
- Quality Assurance Manager (QA Manager)
- Quality Assurance Supervisor (QA Supervisor)
- Quality Control Manager (QC Manager)
- Quality Control Supervisor (QC Supervisor)
- Quarter Supervisor
- Quilting Supervisor
- Rag Room Supervisor
- Ready-Mixed Food Preparations Supervisor
- Receiving and Processing Supervisor
- Reclamation Supervisor
- Record Press Supervisor
- Reduction Plant Supervisor
- Refinery Supervisor
- Refining Supervisor
- Refractory Products Supervisor
- Relay Shop Supervisor
- Repulping Supervisor
- Retread Supervisor
- Reverberatory Furnace Supervisor
- Rice Milling Supervisor
- Ride Assembly Supervisor
- Rocket Propellant Plant Supervisor
- Roll Shop Supervisor
- Roller Printing Supervisor
- Roller Shop Supervisor
- Roofing Plant Supervisor
- Roving Department Supervisor
- Rubber Goods Supervisor
- Rubber Stamps and Dies Supervisor
- Rubber Tire and Tubes Supervisor
- Rug Cleaning Supervisor
- Salvage Supervisor
- Sample Preparation Supervisor
- Sample Room Supervisor
- Sample Supervisor
- Sandblaster Supervisor
- Sandblasting Supervisor
- Sanding Supervisor
- Sawing Supervisor
- Sawmill Supervisor
- Scouring Pads Supervisor
- Scrap Preparation Supervisor
- Screen Making Supervisor
- Screen Printing Supervisor
- Screw Supervisor
- Seed Mill Superintendent
- Sewer System Supervisor
- Sewing Department Supervisor
- Sewing Room Supervisor
- Sewing Supervisor
- Shearing Supervisor
- Sheet Manufacturing Supervisor
- Sheet Metal Worker Supervisor
- Sheet Mill Supervisor
- Shell Shop Supervisor
- Shift Production Supervisor
- Shipfitters Supervisor
- Shipping Supervisor
- Shipping Track Supervisor
- Shoe Repair Supervisor
- Shop Foreman
- Shop Supervisor
- Shrink Pit Supervisor
- Shuttle Fitting Supervisor
- Shuttle Preparation Supervisor
- Shuttle Veneering Supervisor
- Sign Shop Supervisor
- Silk Screen Cutting and Printing Supervisor
- Silvering Department Supervisor
- Silverware Supervisor
- Sintering Plant Supervisor
- Ski Production Supervisor
- Slab Conditioner Supervisor
- Slate Splitting Supervisor
- Slitting and Shipping Supervisor
- Small Appliance Assembly Supervisor
- Snow Removal Supervisor
- Soakers Supervisor
- Soaking Pits Supervisor
- Soaping Department Supervisor
- Soft Sugar Supervisor
- Solder Making Supervisor
- Solid Waste Facility Supervisor
- Sorting Supervisor
- Special Assemblies Supervisor
- Specialty Department Supervisor
- Specialty Food Products Supervisor
- Specialty Manufacturing Supervisor
- Specialty Plant Supervisor
- Spikemaking Supervisor
- Spinning and Winding Supervisor
- Spinning Supervisor
- Split and Drum Room Supervisor
- Split Leather Department Supervisor
- Sports Equipment Supervisor
- Spring Production Supervisor
- Spring Up Supervisor
- Stationary Engineer Supervisor
- Stave Cutting Supervisor
- Steel Division Supervisor
- Steel Pan Form Placing Supervisor
- Steel Post Installer Supervisor
- Steffen House Supervisor
- Stitching Department Supervisor
- Stock Supervisor
- Stocking and Box Shop Supervisor
- Stonework Supervisor
- Structural Mill Supervisor
- Structural Rolling and Finishing Supervisor
- Suction Dredge Pipeline Placing Supervisor
- Sugar House Supervisor
- Sugar Refinery Supervisor
- Sulfuric Acid Plant Supervisor
- Surgical Garment Assembly Supervisor
- Switchboard Operator Supervisor
- Syrup Shed Supervisor
- Tan Room Supervisor
- Tank Cleaning Supervisor
- Tank House Supervisor
- Tank Storage Supervisor
- Tapper Supervisor
- Tar Distillation Supervisor
- Tea and Spice Supervisor
- Testing and Analysis Department Supervisor
- Tests Superintendent
- Textile Supervisor
- Thermostatic Controls Supervisor
- Threshing Department Supervisor
- Tile and Mottle Supervisor
- Tipple Boss
- Tipple Supervisor
- TNT Line Supervisor (Trinitrotoluene Line Supervisor)
- Toilet and Laundry Soap Supervisor
- Tool and Die Supervisor
- Tool Machine Shop Supervisor
- Tool Room Supervisor
- Tower Supervisor
- Toy Assembly Supervisor
- Toy Parts Supervisor
- Tracer Bullet Section Supervisor
- Transformer Assembly Supervisor
- Transformer Shop Supervisor
- Treating and Pumping Supervisor
- Treating Plant Supervisor
- Tubing Supervisor
- Tufting Supervisor
- Tumblers Supervisor
- Tumbling and Rolling Supervisor
- Turn Supervisor
- Type Disk Quality Control Supervisor (Type Disk QC Supervisor)
- Type Photography Supervisor
- Typesetting Supervisor
- Umbrella Supervisor
- Upholstery Department Supervisor
- Uranium Processing Supervisor
- Vacuum Metalizing Supervisor
- Varnish Supervisor
- Vat House Supervisor
- Veneer Supervisor
- Wall Mirror Department Supervisor
- Warehouse Supervisor
- Wash House Supervisor
- Washing and Screening Plant Supervisor
- Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Supervisor
- Wastewater Treatment Plant Supervisor
- Wastewater Treatment Supervisor
- Watch Manufacturing Supervisor
- Water and Sewer Systems Supervisor
- Water Treatment Plant Supervisor
- Weave Room Supervisor
- Weaving Supervisor
- Webbing Supervisor
- Welding Supervisor
- Well-Point Pumping Supervisor
- Wet End Supervisor
- Wet Pour Supervisor
- Wet Room Supervisor
- Whipped Topping Supervisor
- White Sugar Supervisor
- Winding and Twisting Department Supervisor
- Wire Rope Fabrication Supervisor
- Wood Crew Supervisor
- Wood Room Supervisor
- Woods Boss
- Wrecking Supervisor
- Yard Supervisor
- Yarn Preparation Supervisor
- Yeast Supervisor
A day in the life
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems: Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Getting Information: Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates: Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
Work activities
- Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings: Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials: Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates: Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Coaching and Developing Others: Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events: Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards: Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Processing Information: Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work: Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Training and Teaching Others: Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Controlling Machines and Processes: Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles).
- Scheduling Work and Activities: Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People: Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Working with Computers: Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Monitoring and Controlling Resources: Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Developing and Building Teams: Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others: Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Analyzing Data or Information: Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships: Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Thinking Creatively: Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Documenting/Recording Information: Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others: Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Performing Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Providing Consultation and Advice to Others: Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
- Handling and Moving Objects: Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
- Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment: Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies: Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Staffing Organizational Units: Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others: Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Repairing and Maintaining Electronic Equipment: Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information: Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Performing General Physical Activities: Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
- Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment: Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.
- Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment: Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
- Communicating with People Outside the Organization: Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Selling or Influencing Others: Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
- Assisting and Caring for Others: Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Performing for or Working Directly with the Public: Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
- Attention to Detail: Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability: Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Leadership: Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Work styles
- Self-Control: Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Cooperation: Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Initiative: Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Integrity: Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Stress Tolerance: Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
- Adaptability/Flexibility: Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Persistence: Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Independence: Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Concern for Others: Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Achievement/Effort: Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Analytical Thinking: Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Innovation: Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Social Orientation: Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
- Independence: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Support: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
- Achievement: Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
Work values
- Relationships: Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service.
- Working Conditions: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
- Recognition: Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
- Enterprising: Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.
- Conventional: Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.
- Realistic: Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.
Work interests
- Social: Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.
- Investigative: Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.
- Artistic: Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.
- Enforce safety and sanitation regulations.
- Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production or processing of goods, such as inspectors, machine setters, or fabricators.
- Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.
Work tasks
- Confer with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments.
- Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
- Inspect materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
- Observe work and monitor gauges, dials, and other indicators to ensure that operators conform to production or processing standards.
- Confer with management or subordinates to resolve worker problems, complaints, or grievances.
- Interpret specifications, blueprints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.
- Maintain operations data, such as time, production, and cost records, and prepare management reports of production results.
- Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
- Determine standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.
- Requisition materials, supplies, equipment parts, or repair services.
- Set up and adjust machines and equipment.
- Calculate labor and equipment requirements and production specifications, using standard formulas.
- Plan and develop new products and production processes.
- Conduct employee training in equipment operations or work and safety procedures, or assign employee training to experienced workers.
- Keep records of employees' attendance and hours worked.
- Recommend or execute personnel actions, such as hirings, evaluations, or promotions.
- Evaluate employee performance.
- Production and Processing: Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
- Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
Work knowledge
- English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
- Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Administrative: Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
- Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
- Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
- Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
- Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
- Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
- Transportation: Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
- Sales and Marketing: Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
- Economics and Accounting: Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
- Communications and Media: Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- Chemistry: Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
- Sociology and Anthropology: Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
- Physics: Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
- Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
- Philosophy and Theology: Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
- Food Production: Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
- Therapy and Counseling: Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
- Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
- Geography: Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
- Foreign Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
- Medicine and Dentistry: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Biology: Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
- History and Archeology: Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
- Fine Arts: Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
Work abilities
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Work skills
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Operations Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Quality Control Analysis: Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Repairing: Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Equipment Maintenance: Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
- Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Technology Design: Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Science: Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Programming: Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Installation: Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
Education & Training
Education High school diploma or equivalent
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Training None
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- American Apprenticeship Round Table w/ Bath Iron Works
AddressMethod of Delivery- General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works
AddressMethod of Delivery- University of Maine at Farmington
Training Type Certificate (Undergraduate)Address