Maintenance Supervisor

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

O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Electrical and Instrumentation Supervisor (E and I Supervisor); Facilities Maintenance Supervisor; Facility Maintenance Supervisor; Maintenance Coordinator; Maintenance Foreman; Maintenance Manager; Maintenance Planner; Maintenance Superintendent; Maintenance Supervisor; Service Manager

Tasks

• Inspect, test, and measure completed work, using devices such as hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
• 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.
• Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.
• Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
• Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations, using equipment such as hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.
• Compute estimates and actual costs of factors such as materials, labor, or outside contractors.
• Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions.
• Requisition materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.
• 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.
• 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.
• Counsel employees about work-related issues and assist employees to correct job-skill deficiencies.
• Recommend or initiate personnel actions, such as hires, promotions, transfers, discharges, or disciplinary measures.
• Investigate accidents or injuries and prepare reports of findings.
• Conduct or arrange for worker training in safety, repair, or maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use.

Knowledge

• Administration and Management
• Mechanical
• Customer and Personal Service
• Administrative
• Personnel and Human Resources
• English Language
• Mathematics

Skills

• Monitoring
• Speaking
• Critical Thinking
• Reading Comprehension
• Active Listening
• Active Learning
• Learning Strategies
• Writing

Abilities

• Oral Comprehension
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Deductive Reasoning
• Inductive Reasoning
• Near Vision
• Problem Sensitivity
• Information Ordering
• Speech Recognition
• Speech Clarity
• Flexibility of Closure
• Selective Attention
• Far Vision
• Written Expression
• Category Flexibility
• Perceptual Speed
• Visualization
• Fluency of Ideas
• Number Facility
• Arm-Hand Steadiness
• Manual Dexterity
• Finger Dexterity
• Control Precision
• Hearing Sensitivity
• Auditory Attention