First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of material-moving machine and vehicle operators and helpers.
Most important skills
- Active Listening
- Coordination
- Time Management
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Critical Thinking
- Social Perceptiveness
Key knowledge
- Administration and Management
- Customer and Personal Service
- Mathematics
- Production and Processing
- English Language
- Personnel and Human Resources
- Public Safety and Security
- Computers and Electronics
What the work involves
- Assist workers in tasks, such as loading vehicles.
- Direct workers in transportation or related services, such as pumping, moving, storing, or loading or unloading of materials.
- Plan and establish schedules.
- Enforce safety rules and regulations.
- Plan work assignments and equipment allocations to meet transportation, operations or production goals.
- Confer with customers, supervisors, contractors, or other personnel to exchange information or to resolve problems.
- Resolve worker problems or collaborate with employees to assist in problem resolution.
- Review orders, production schedules, blueprints, or shipping or receiving notices to determine work sequences and material shipping dates, types, volumes, or destinations.
Strongest interest areas (O*NET): Enterprising, Conventional, Realistic.
Qualifications and licensing
- Most common education
- High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) (29.9% of respondents)
- Related experience
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years (27.8%)
- On-the-job training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months (58.3%)
- 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 Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators is not yet verified for any state: check the state licensing board before planning.
- Projection education uses SOC 53-1043 (exact); it may describe a broader group.
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) · 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 92% of occupations compared | 92% of surveyed respondents chose “Constant contact with others” |
| Dealing with the public | Very high | Higher on dealing with the public than 93% of occupations compared | 87% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Teamwork | Very high | Higher on teamwork than 86% of occupations compared | 71% of surveyed respondents chose “Extremely important” |
| Freedom to make decisions | Moderate | Higher on freedom to make decisions than 53% of occupations compared | 69% of surveyed respondents chose “A lot of freedom” |
| Time pressure | Moderate | Higher on time pressure than 59% of occupations compared | 67% of surveyed respondents chose “Every day” |
| Conflict situations | Very high | Higher on conflict situations than 96% of occupations compared | 69% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Dealing with unpleasant or angry people | Very high | Higher on dealing with unpleasant or angry people than 91% of occupations compared | 63% of surveyed respondents chose “Once a week or more but not every day” |
| Consequence of error | Very high | Higher on consequence of error than 86% of occupations compared | — |
Work-pressure profile
- Time pressure: moderate
- Conflict situations: very high
- Dealing with unpleasant or angry people: very high
- Consequence of error: very 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: 3.57%
- Contact with others most of the time: 4.28%
- Constant contact with others: 92.15%
n = 17, Incumbent 08/2023
Dealing with the public
- Not important at all: 6.37%
- Fairly important: 2.38%
- Important: 2.38%
- Very important: 2.38%
- Extremely important: 86.5%
n = 16, Incumbent 08/2023
Teamwork
- Not important at all: 0%
- Fairly important: 2.15%
- Important: 0%
- Very important: 27.1%
- Extremely important: 70.75%
n = 17, Incumbent 08/2023
Freedom to make decisions
- No freedom: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Very little freedom: 0%
- Limited freedom: 0%
- Some freedom: 12.84%
- A lot of freedom: 69.43%
n = 17, Incumbent 08/2023
Time pressure
- Never: 21.31%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 2.15%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 1.18%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 8.69%
- Every day: 66.67%
n = 17, Incumbent 08/2023
Conflict situations
- Never: 2.38%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 2.4%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 6.63%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 68.65%
- Every day: 19.94%
n = 16, Incumbent 08/2023
Dealing with unpleasant or angry people
- Never: 0%
- Once a year or more but not every month: 4.26%
- Once a month or more but not every week: 20.59%
- Once a week or more but not every day: 62.89%
- Every day: 12.27%
n = 17, Incumbent 08/2023
Consequence of error
- Not serious at all: 2.13%
- Fairly serious: 17.41%
- Serious: 2.13%
- Very serious: suppressed by O*NET (low precision)
- Extremely serious: 29.02%
n = 17, Incumbent 08/2023
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