First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.
Most important skills
- Coordination
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Reading Comprehension
- Monitoring
- Time Management
Key knowledge
- Administration and Management
- Building and Construction
- Mechanical
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Design
- Public Safety and Security
- Mathematics
What the work involves
- Read specifications, such as blueprints, to determine construction requirements or to plan procedures.
- Estimate material or worker requirements to complete jobs.
- Supervise, coordinate, or schedule the activities of construction or extractive workers.
- Confer with managerial or technical personnel, other departments, or contractors to resolve problems or to coordinate activities.
- Coordinate work activities with other construction project activities.
- Order or requisition materials or supplies.
- Locate, measure, and mark site locations or placement of structures or equipment, using measuring and marking equipment.
- Record information, such as personnel, production, or operational data on specified forms or reports.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Enterprising, Conventional, Realistic.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- Post-Secondary Certificate (27% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 10 years (30.5%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year (41.4%)
- Preparation level
- O*NET job zone 3: Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
- Licensing
- Not yet verified. Check your state licensing board.
Check before planning
- Licensing for First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
Limits
- Distributions show what current workers or occupational experts report, not legal minimums.
- Requirements vary by employer and state; time to qualify is not estimated.
Source: O*NET 31.0 Database (USDOL/ETA, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections · dataset 2026.10.8 · method e3-qualification-1.0.0
Work environment
How the typical conditions of this occupation compare with 911 occupations in O*NET (very low = the lowest fifth).
Levels are relative. Most occupations involve a lot of contact with people, for example, so “very low” can still mean regular contact; the last column shows what workers actually reported.
| Condition | Level | Compared with other occupations | Most common answer (O*NET survey) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact with others | Very high | Higher on contact with others than 96% of occupations compared | 97% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | High | Higher on dealing with the public than 63% of occupations compared | 47% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | Very high | Higher on teamwork than 88% of occupations compared | 78% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Very high | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 86% of occupations compared | 60% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | High | Higher on time pressure than 72% of occupations compared | 41% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Conflict situations | Very high | Higher on conflict situations than 91% of occupations compared | 53% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | High | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 74% of occupations compared | 46% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a month or more but not every week” |
| Consequence of error | High | Higher on consequence of error than 63% of occupations compared | 29% of surveyed respondents chose “Very serious” |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: high
- Conflict situations: very high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: high
- Consequence of error: high
Each part is shown on its own. There is no combined stress score, and conditions vary by employer and role.
Full answer distributions
Contact with others
- No contact with others: 0%
- Occasional contact with others: 0%
- Contact with others about half the time: 1.37%
- Contact with others most of the time: 1.62%
- Constant contact with others: 97.01%
n = 33, Incumbent 08/2020
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 9.7%
- Fairly important: 20.5%
- Important: 3.41%
- Very important: 19%
- Extremely important: 47.38%
n = 32, Incumbent 08/2020
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 0%
- Important: 8.84%
- Very important: 13.18%
- Extremely important: 77.98%
n = 33, Incumbent 08/2020
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: 0%
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 1.33%
- Some freedom: 38.56%
- A lot of freedom: 60.11%
n = 33, Incumbent 08/2020
Time pressure
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 5.64%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 16.48%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 37.01%
- Every day: 40.87%
n = 33, Incumbent 08/2020
Conflict situations
- Never: 0.87%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 15.47%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 13.23%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 52.85%
- Every day: 17.59%
n = 33, Incumbent 08/2020
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 0.67%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 14.8%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 45.66%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 34.23%
- Every day: 4.63%
n = 33, Incumbent 08/2020
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 26.11%
- Fairly serious: 0%
- Serious: 19.47%
- Very serious: 29.43%
- Extremely serious: 24.99%
n = 32, Incumbent 08/2020
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