First-Line Supervisors of Passenger Attendants

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On Car Supervisor, Transit Service Supervisor, Transportation Supervisor

What they do:
Supervise and coordinate activities of passenger attendants.
On the job, you would:
  • Enforce safety rules and regulations.
  • Resolve customer complaints regarding worker performance or services rendered.
  • Inspect materials, stock, vehicles, equipment, or facilities to ensure that they are safe, free of defects, and consistent with specifications.

Knowledge

Transportation

  • movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road

Safety and Government

  • public safety and security
  • law and government

Business

  • customer service
  • management

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others

Social

  • looking for ways to help people
  • bringing people together to solve differences

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • notice when problems happen
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Hearing and Speech

  • speak clearly
  • recognize spoken words

Attention

  • pay attention to something without being distracted

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Leadership Orientation
  • Social Orientation
  • Cooperation
  • Dependability
  • Self-Control
  • Stress Tolerance

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Spreadsheet software

  • Microsoft Excel Hot Technology In Demand

Presentation software

  • Microsoft PowerPoint Hot Technology In Demand

Mobile location based services software

  • Accellos Real Dispatch
  • Commercial vehicle operations CVO software

Education

Education: (rated 2 of 4)
high school diploma/GED or
some college
usually needed

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