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First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of material-moving machine and vehicle operators and helpers.

$60,500
Median Pay
Less than 6 months
Training
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High Disruption Risk
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AI Impact Assessment

AI Resilience Score

Score 1/6: high AI task exposure, limited human advantage creates significant risk from AI disruption (estimated from legacy data)

🔴High Disruption Risk

How we calculated this:

AI Exposure
High+0

85% of tasks can be accelerated by AI

Job Growth
Stable+1

0% projected (2024-2034)

Human Advantage
Weak+0

EPOCH score: 11/25

Total Score1/6
Methodology: v2.0 - GPTs are GPTs / BLS / EPOCH Additive ScoringUpdated: 2026-01-09
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Key Responsibilities

  • Enforce safety rules and regulations.
  • Interpret transportation or tariff regulations, shipping orders, safety regulations, or company policies and procedures for workers.
  • Resolve worker problems or collaborate with employees to assist in problem resolution.
  • Confer with customers, supervisors, contractors, or other personnel to exchange information or to resolve problems.
  • Plan work assignments and equipment allocations to meet transportation, operations or production goals.
  • Examine, measure, or weigh cargo or materials to determine specific handling requirements.
  • Explain and demonstrate work tasks to new workers or assign training tasks to experienced workers.
  • Review orders, production schedules, blueprints, or shipping or receiving notices to determine work sequences and material shipping dates, types, volumes, or destinations.
  • Drive vehicles or operate machines or equipment to complete work assignments or to assist workers.
  • Inspect or test materials, stock, vehicles, equipment, or facilities to ensure that they are safe, free of defects, and consistent with specifications.

Education & Training

Typical Entry Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Time to Job Ready

1-3 years

Based on Job Zone 3. For formal education duration only, see education_duration.

Technology Skills

@Road GeoManagerAccellos Real DispatchActsoft Comet TrackerBarcode softwareBill of lading softwareCAPE Systems CAPE PACKCAPE Systems TRUCKFILLCommercial vehicle operations CVO softwareCoptimal Logics AutoLoad ProCreative Systems Corporation Freight-Link SystemEnterprise resource planning ERP softwareFleet management systemsGeneral ledger softwareJDA ManugisticsLoad optimization software

Key Abilities

Oral ComprehensionOral ExpressionWritten ComprehensionProblem SensitivityDeductive ReasoningWritten ExpressionInductive ReasoningNear VisionInformation OrderingSpeech Recognition

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Compensation Details

$39,510
10th Percentile
$60,500
Median
$92,110
90th Percentile

Based on 603,350 employed workers

Also Known As

Building Materials SupervisorBus Dispatcher SupervisorBus Driver SupervisorCab Dispatcher SupervisorCab SupervisorCar SupervisorCargo ManagerCargo SupervisorCircus Train SupervisorCoal Yard Supervisor

Data from O*NET 30.1 and BLS Occupational Employment Statistics

O*NET Code: 53-1043.00