Will AI replace First-Line Supervisors of Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators?
AI reaches some of this job’s work, but most of it stays with people.
31/100
Moderate exposure
More exposed to AI than 47% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 47% of the work
What the job involves
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of material-moving machine and vehicle operators and helpers.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(10)
- Interpret transportation or tariff regulations, shipping orders, safety regulations, or company policies and procedures for workers.
- Plan work assignments and equipment allocations to meet transportation, operations or production goals.
- Recommend and implement measures to improve worker motivation, equipment performance, work methods, or customer services.
- Review orders, production schedules, blueprints, or shipping or receiving notices to determine work sequences and material shipping dates, types, volumes, or destinations.
- Explain and demonstrate work tasks to new workers or assign training tasks to experienced workers.
and 5 more
Out of reach(12)
- Enforce safety rules and regulations.
- Resolve worker problems or collaborate with employees to assist in problem resolution.
- Confer with customers, supervisors, contractors, or other personnel to exchange information or to resolve problems.
- Assist workers in tasks, such as loading vehicles.
- Inspect or test materials, stock, vehicles, equipment, or facilities to ensure that they are safe, free of defects, and consistent with specifications.
and 7 more
Also called
Driver Manager · Shipping Manager · Crane Crew Supervisor · Truck Driver Supervisor · Cargo Manager · DC Supervisor (Distribution Center Supervisor) · Dock Supervisor · Fleet Manager
Related jobs
- First-Line Supervisors of Passenger Attendants32/100
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers21/100
- First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers20/100
- First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers29/100
- First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand35/100
What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics