Description
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of material-moving machine and vehicle operators and helpers.
- • 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.
- • Recommend and implement measures to improve worker motivation, equipment performance, work methods, or customer services.
- • Maintain or verify records of time, materials, expenditures, or crew activities.
- • Interpret transportation or tariff regulations, shipping orders, safety regulations, or company policies and procedures for workers.
- • Explain and demonstrate work tasks to new workers or assign training tasks to experienced workers.
- • Prepare, compile, and submit reports on work activities, operations, production, or work-related accidents.
- • Recommend or implement personnel actions, such as employee selection, evaluation, rewards, or disciplinary actions.
- • Requisition needed personnel, supplies, equipment, parts, or repair services.
- • Inspect or test materials, stock, vehicles, equipment, or facilities to ensure that they are safe, free of defects, and consistent with specifications.
- • Compute or estimate cash, payroll, transportation, personnel, or storage requirements.
- • Dispatch personnel and vehicles in response to telephone or radio reports of emergencies.
- • Perform or schedule repairs or preventive maintenance of vehicles or other equipment.
- • Examine, measure, or weigh cargo or materials to determine specific handling requirements.
- • Drive vehicles or operate machines or equipment to complete work assignments or to assist workers.
- • Monitor field work to ensure proper performance and use of materials.
- • 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.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
