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O*NET detailed work activitySupervise engineering or other technical personnel
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Leading people runs on trust, presence and reading the situation: motivating, correcting, backing people up and taking responsibility. AI can't do that for you.
Part of Supervise personnel activities, under the O*NET work activity group Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 21 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Provide technical direction or supervision to junior engineers, engineering or computer-aided design (CAD) technicians, or other technical personnel.
- Supervise or direct the work of non-destructive testing trainees or staff.
- Supervise technologists or technicians engaged in nanotechnology research or production.
- Supervise the work of technologists, technicians, and other engineers and scientists.
- Monitor the work of specialists, such as electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, interior designers, or sound specialists to ensure optimal form or function of designs or final structures.
- Manage teams of engineers by creating schedules, tracking inventory, creating or using budgets, or overseeing contract obligations or deadlines.
- Supervise or coordinate activities of workers engaged in surveying, plotting data, drafting maps, or producing blueprints, photostats, or photographs.
- Direct technicians, engineering designers or other technical support personnel as needed.
- Supervise technologists, technicians, or other engineers.
- Manage the work of subcontractors to ensure quality control.
- Direct workers engaged in product measurement, inspection, and testing activities to ensure quality control and reliability.
- Supervise or train project team members, as necessary.
- Assign work to staff to obtain maximum utilization of personnel.
- Supervise other engineers and crew members and train them for routine and emergency duties.
- Supervise or train other technologists, technicians, or drafters.
- Supervise and train other technologists, technicians, and drafters.
- Oversee the work of contractors in accordance with project requirements.
- Supervise, train, and evaluate technicians, technologists, survey personnel, engineers, scientists or other mine personnel.
- Supervise and train other drafters, technologists, and technicians.
- Provide technical supervision regarding traffic control devices to other traffic technicians or laborers.
- Supervise and coordinate work activities of workers engaged in drafting, designing layouts, assembling, or testing printed circuit boards.