First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.
First-line construction worker trades and extraction workers are like orchestra conductors, queuing each person to play their part, coordinating and ensuring that the right job is done at the exact time it’s needed and as safely as possible.
Extraction worker prepares cost estimates, budgets, and work timetables, interprets and explain contracts. Technical information to other professionals, reports work progress and budget matters to clients, collaborates with architects, engineers, and other construction specialists, selects subcontractors and schedule and coordinate their activities, responds to work delays, emergencies, and other problems, and complies with legal requirements, building and safety codes, and other regulations.
An extraction workers job description requires a high school diploma with experience in business methods such as accounting. Extraction worker's work alongside the people they manage and are promoted from the workforce after years of experience.
Supervisors’ direct equipment operators, ensuring enough workers to get a job done on schedule. They schedule, train and motivate workers, keep records to document important information, manage money, organize and communicate. Skills required include coordination, critical thinking, time management, problem-solving, learning strategies and social perceptiveness. In addition, they need knowledge of administration and management, building and construction, engineering and technology, personnel and human resources, mathematics, computers, mechanics and design. Successful extraction workers plan a, coordinate, budget, and supervise construction projects from start to finish.
Qualifications
Every career requires an element of study and academic qualification, and there can be several study routes and pathways you can take. In following any academic pathway you will study subjects that contribute to the specialised knowledge required to achieve your career goals. These qualifications provide a future employer with the evidence that you have the desired knowledge, understanding and experience of their industry, so it’s important to consider the various types of qualifications available to you and to understand how they can boost your career and create opportunities for you.
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Tasks
- 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.
- Assign work to employees, based on material or worker requirements of specific jobs.
- Provide assistance to workers engaged in construction or extraction activities, using hand tools or other equipment.
Progression Routes
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