How do they match: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

  • Service Advisor
  • Service Department Manager
  • Service Manager
  • Service Supervisor
  • Service and Repair Supervisor
  • Appliance Service Supervisor
  • Auto Service Manager
  • Auto Specialty Services Manager
  • Automotive Service Manager
  • Cooler Service Supervisor
  • Electrical Appliance Servicer Supervisor
  • Garage Worker
  • Leased Machinery and Equipment Service Supervisor
  • Maintenance Service Supervisor
  • Marine Service Manager
  • Office Machine Service Supervisor
  • Pump Service Supervisor
  • Pump Servicer Supervisor
  • Street Light Servicer Supervisor
  • Tire Service Supervisor
  • Water Softener Service Supervisor

  • Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of mechanics, installers, and repairers. May also advise customers on recommended services. Excludes team or work leaders.

  • Conduct or arrange for worker training in safety, repair, or maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use.
  • Confer with personnel, such as management, engineering, quality control, customer, or union workers' representatives, to coordinate work activities, resolve employee grievances, or identify and review resource needs.
  • 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.
  • Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.
  • 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.
  • Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
  • Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.
  • Meet with vendors or suppliers to discuss products used in repair work.
  • Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
  • Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions.
  • Review, evaluate, accept, and coordinate completion of work bid from contractors.

  • Confer with coworkers to coordinate work activities.
  • Direct organizational operations, projects, or services.
  • Explain use of products or services.
  • Inspect completed work to ensure proper functioning.
  • Maintain work equipment or machinery.
  • Monitor work areas or procedures to ensure compliance with safety procedures.
  • Plan work procedures.
  • Train others in operational procedures.