Where a precision mechanics supervisor can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a precision mechanics supervisor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Precision mechanics supervisors oversee, train and manage workers who fit together complex parts of small-size machines such as measuring or control mechanisms.
Also known as precision maintenance machine shop manager, precision maintenance machining department supervisor, precision maintenance machine charge hand, precision machinery production supervisor, precision maintenance machining and assembly supervisor, lead maintenance precision operative, precision maintenance machining supervisor, precision maintenance machine adjuster supervisor, precision maintenance machine and assembly maintenance team leader, precision maintenance machining and assembly manager, precision machine setter supervisor, precision maintenance and assembly supervisor.
Technicians and associate professionals 36 skills on file 5 career moves 4 above 60% overlap Closest: machinery assembly supervisor, 75%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A precision mechanics supervisor needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- micromechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
- oversee assembly operations information skills
- communicate problems to senior colleagues communication, collaboration and creativity
- coordinate communication within a team communication, collaboration and creativity
- oversee production requirements management skills
- precision mechanics engineering, manufacturing and construction
- report on production results information skills
- ensure finished product meet requirements management skills
- analyse the need for technical resources information skills
- plan shifts of employees management skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a precision mechanics supervisor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- container equipment assembly supervisor 72% covered · difficulty 29.6
- machine operator supervisor 72% covered · difficulty 29.6
- machinery assembly supervisor 72% covered · difficulty 29.6
- wood assembly supervisor 68% covered · difficulty 33.8
- wood production supervisor 59% covered · difficulty 41.8
- aircraft assembly supervisor 56% covered · difficulty 44.5
- motor vehicle assembly supervisor 56% covered · difficulty 44.5
- rolling stock assembly supervisor 56% covered · difficulty 44.5
- vessel assembly supervisor 56% covered · difficulty 44.5
- industrial maintenance supervisor 53% covered · difficulty 47.6
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Precision mechanics supervisor is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a precision mechanics supervisor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.