Where a vehicle maintenance supervisor can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a vehicle maintenance supervisor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Vehicle maintenance supervisors assume responsibility for the day-to-day operation of a service station.
Also known as service station manager, bus and coach maintenance supervisor, heavy vehicle maintenance supervisor, bus maintenance supervisor, bus maintenance manager, PCV maintenance manager, coach maintenance manager, PCV maintenance supervisor, fleet maintenance supervisor, bus and coach maintenance manager, light vehicle maintenance manager, heavy vehicle maintenance manager.
Craft and related trades workers 29 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: vehicle maintenance attendant, 43%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A vehicle maintenance supervisor needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- monitor vehicle maintenance activities constructing
- monitor vehicle repairs management skills
- order supplies for vehicle maintenance and repair communication, collaboration and creativity
- plan employees work in vehicle maintenance management skills
- identify vehicles service requirements communication, collaboration and creativity
- manage claims process communication, collaboration and creativity
- ensure compliance with warranty contracts communication, collaboration and creativity
- car controls services
- types of vehicles engineering, manufacturing and construction
- follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health handling and moving
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a vehicle maintenance supervisor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- vehicle technician 48% covered · difficulty 55.1
- sales engineer 40% covered · difficulty 61.7
- vehicle maintenance attendant 40% covered · difficulty 60.9
- roadside vehicle technician 31% covered · difficulty 68.2
- motor vehicle aftersales manager 31% covered · difficulty 68.8
- vehicle electronics installer 27% covered · difficulty 72.2
- vehicle cleaner 24% covered · difficulty 74.4
- motor vehicles parts advisor 18% covered · difficulty 78.9
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Vehicle maintenance supervisor is filed under Craft and related trades workers, ISCO major group 7. 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 vehicle maintenance 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.