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This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Supervise, co-ordinate and schedule the activities of workers who repair and maintain aircraft, railway locomotives and cars, industrial machinery and equipment, construction and other heavy equipment, textile equipment, printing machines, heating equipment and furnaces, transformers and other electrical equipment, motor vehicles, air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, electric appliances and other equipment, such as motorcycles, outboard motors and snowmobiles
• Establish methods to meet work schedules and co-ordinate work activities with other departments
• Requisition materials and supplies
• Resolve work problems and recommend work measures to improve productivity
• Train or arrange for training of workers
• Recommend personnel actions such as hiring and promotions
• Ensure that standards for safe working conditions are observed
• Prepare production and other reports
• May manage the operations of their own companies
• May also supervise, co-ordinate and schedule the activities of related apprentices, helpers and labourers.

Small businesses' contractors may execute tasks within their trade area of expertise, which is generally not the case for supervisors or contractors associated with a medium or large business.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Several years of experience as a qualified tradesperson in a relevant trade are usually required.
• Journeyman/woman trade certification in a relevant trade is required.

• There is little or no intertrade mobility among the supervisors in this unit group.

• Foremen/women of workers who repair electrical industrial equipment (in 7202 Contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and telecommunications occupations)