Profession precision mechanics supervisor

Precision mechanics supervisors oversee, train and manage workers who fit together complex parts of small-size machines such as measuring or control mechanisms.

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Personality Type

Knowledge

  • Quality standards

    The national and international requirements, specifications and guidelines to ensure that products, services and processes are of good quality and fit for purpose.

  • Micromechanics

    The design and production of micromechanisms. Micromechanisms combine mechanical and electrical components in a single device that is less than 1mm across.

  • Precision mechanics

    Precision or fine mechanics is a subdiscipline in engineering that focuses on the design and development of smaller precision machines.

  • Mechanics

    Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.

Skills

  • Report on production results

    Report on production to the hierarchy. Mention a specified set of parameters, such as amount produced and timing, and any issues or unexpected occurrences.

  • Plan shifts of employees

    Plans shifts of employees to ensure completion of all customer orders and satisfactory completion of the production plan.

  • Create solutions to problems

    Solve problems which arise in planning, prioritising, organising, directing/facilitating action and evaluating performance. Use systematic processes of collecting, analysing, and synthesising information to evaluate current practice and generate new understandings about practice.

  • Consult technical resources

    Read and interpret such technical resources such as digital or paper drawings and adjustment data in order to properly set up a machine or working tool, or to assemble mechanical equipment.

  • Read standard blueprints

    Read and comprehend standard blueprints, machine, and process drawings.

  • Communicate problems to senior colleagues

    Communicate and give feedback to senior colleagues in the event of problems or non-conformities.

  • Coordinate communication within a team

    Collect contact info for all team members and decide on modes of communication.

  • Liaise with managers

    Liaise with managers of other departments ensuring effective service and communication, i.e. sales, planning, purchasing, trading, distribution and technical.

  • Oversee assembly operations

    Give technical instructions to assembly workers and control their progress to ensure compliance with quality standards and to check that the goals set in the production plan are met.

  • Ensure quality of final product

    Ensure that finished products meet or exceed company specifications.

  • Oversee production requirements

    Oversee production processes and prepare all the resources needed to maintain an efficient and continuous flow of production.

  • Analyse the need for technical resources

    Define and make a list of the required resources and equipment based on the technical needs of the production.

Optional knowledge and skills

schedule regular machine maintenance perform technically demanding tasks evaluate employees work electronics undertake inspections operate precision measuring equipment train employees demonstrate products' features liaise with quality assurance apply technical communication skills wear appropriate protective gear identify hazards in the workplace oversee logistics of finished products provide advice to technicians set up the controller of a machine write inspection reports oversee quality control use precision tools check material rescources monitor manufacturing quality standards

Source: Sisyphus ODB