Occupation

First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers

Human Advantage 76%

Significant human skills needed

AI Automation Risk Low Risk
2.3 / 10

This occupation requires complex human judgment, social interaction, and creative problem-solving that are difficult to automate.

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.

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Core Tasks

  1. Inspect work progress, equipment, or construction sites to verify safety or to ensure that specifications are met.
  2. Read specifications, such as blueprints, to determine construction requirements or to plan procedures.
  3. Supervise, coordinate, or schedule the activities of construction or extractive workers.
  4. Assign work to employees, based on material or worker requirements of specific jobs.
  5. Coordinate work activities with other construction project activities.
  6. Estimate material or worker requirements to complete jobs.
  7. Analyze worker or production problems and recommend solutions, such as improving production methods or implementing motivational plans.
  8. Order or requisition materials or supplies.
  9. Train workers in construction methods, operation of equipment, safety procedures, or company policies.
  10. Locate, measure, and mark site locations or placement of structures or equipment, using measuring and marking equipment.
  11. Confer with managerial or technical personnel, other departments, or contractors to resolve problems or to coordinate activities.
  12. Arrange for repairs of equipment or machinery.
  13. Provide assistance to workers engaged in construction or extraction activities, using hand tools or other equipment.
  14. Record information, such as personnel, production, or operational data on specified forms or reports.
  15. Suggest or initiate personnel actions, such as promotions, transfers, or hires.

Education & Training

Job Zone 3 Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
Education: Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
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.
On-the-Job 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. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.

Education Level Distribution

Percentage of workers in this occupation with each education level.

Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production)
27%
Less than a High School Diploma
22%
High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)
21%
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree)
12%
Bachelor's Degree
10%
Some College Courses
8%

Technology & Tools

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Tools & Equipment (127)

  • Acetylene welding equipment
  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Aerial personnel lifts
  • Air compressors
  • Allen wrenches
  • Ammeters
  • Analog temperature analyzers
  • Arc welding equipment
  • Backhoes
  • Band saws
  • Bench vises
  • Biscuit joiners
  • Blasting machines
  • Brick trowels
  • Bubble levels
  • Calipers
  • Caulking guns
  • Chalk lines
  • Channel lock pliers
  • Clamp-on meters
  • Claw hammers
  • Combination squares
  • Concrete floats
  • Concrete mixers
  • Crowbars
  • Desktop computers
  • Detonators
  • Digital cameras
  • Digital temperature analyzers
  • Dump trucks
  • Fish tapes
  • Flat head screwdrivers
  • Flatbed truck trailers
  • Flow meters
  • Forklifts
  • Fuel-burning kettles
  • Gas-powered generators
  • Glass cutters
  • Glass gloves
  • Glass holders
  • Glass lifters
  • Glass tongs
  • Hand saws
  • Humidity meters
  • Hydraulic crimping tools
  • Hydraulic knock-out punches
  • Insulated adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Insulated screwdrivers
  • Ladders
  • Lathes
  • Layout squares
  • Manlifts
  • Marking gauges
  • Measuring tapes
  • Megohm meters
  • Metal inert gas MIG welding equipment
  • Mortar mixers
  • Multimeters
  • Nut drivers
  • Ohmmeters
  • Oxyfuel gas welders
  • Pallet jacks
  • Personal computers
  • Phillips head screwdrivers
  • Pipe benders
  • Pipe cutters
  • Pipe threaders
  • Pipe vises
  • Pipe wrenches
  • Planers
  • Planes
  • Plumb bobs
  • Pointing trowels
  • Power drills
  • Power grinders
  • Power lockouts
  • Power nailers
  • Power polishers
  • Power saws
  • Power washers
  • Precision levels
  • Pressure meters
  • Protective ear muffs
  • Protective ear plugs
  • Pry bars
  • Putty knives
  • Refrigerant leak detectors
  • Refrigerant reclamation equipment
  • Respirators
  • Rubber mallets
  • Saber saws
  • Safety glasses
  • Safety gloves
  • Safety goggles
  • Safety harnesses
  • Safety lanyards
  • Scaffolding
  • Scoring tools
  • Screeds
  • Single-cut mill saw files
  • Skid steer loaders
  • Slickline fishing tools
  • Steel chisels
  • Surveying rods
  • Swing stages
  • Table saws
  • Tablet computers
  • Theodolites
  • Tracked excavators
  • Transit levels
  • Trenchers
  • Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment
  • Two way radios
  • Utility knives
  • Vacuum cups
  • Vacuum pumps
  • Voltmeters
  • Wattmeters
  • Welders
  • Welding masks
  • Wheel loaders
  • Wheeled bulldozers
  • Wire crimpers
  • Wire cutters
  • Wire pulling machines
  • Wire strippers
  • Wood chisels

Where This Career Leads

Career progression organized by specialty track and experience level.

Construction Planning & Development Advanced Manufacturing

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Skilled Trades Advanced Manufacturing

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