First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Supervise and coordinate the activities of mechanics, installers, and repairers.

Job Task

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

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