Operations and sales

First-Line Supervisor of Production and Operating Workers in the United States

139 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 39 employers · largest 22% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 139 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution
6%
9 of 139 postingsAccredited institution →
Associate DegreeAccredited institution
5%
7 of 139 postingsAccredited institution →

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

PMPProject Management Institute
1%
1 of 139 postings$555 exam · fee checked 2026-08~200 hrs prepProject Management Institute →
Certified Six Sigma Green BeltAmerican Society for Quality
4%
5 of 139 postings$548 exam · fee checked 2026-08~120 hrs prepAmerican Society for Quality →
Secret Security ClearanceU.S. Government (DCSA)
1%
1 of 139 postingsU.S. Government (DCSA) →
ServSafe Food Protection ManagerNational Restaurant Association
1%
1 of 139 postings$179 exam · fee checked 2026-08~16 hrs prepNational Restaurant Association →
Certified Six Sigma Black BeltAmerican Society for Quality
3%
4 of 139 postings$668 exam · fee checked 2026-08~250 hrs prepAmerican Society for Quality →

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job

33%reported high school diploma or equivalent

High school diploma or equivalent33%
Some college, no degree15%
Less than high school diploma14%

Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.

O*NET 51-1011.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$47,130

10th percentile

$74,450

median

$108,750

90th percentile

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

SpaceX · Blue Bottle Coffee · McWane Inc · Boyd Gaming · Relativity Space · MAT Holdings · Gopuff · HelloFresh · Home Chef · J&J Snack Foods · Lucid Motors · Rocket Lab · Anduril Industries · DIG · Harbinger Motors · Innophos · Latitude Inc · O-I (Owens-Illinois) · Skydio · 1X · Divergent Technologies · Green Thumb Industries · Nuro · Tomra · Bosch · CookUnity · Cresco Labs · Curaleaf · George P. Johnson (GPJ) · Instawork · Intuitive Surgical · Live Parallel · Misfits Market · Phoenix Stamping Group · SkillSource · The Florida Panthers · Westgate Resorts · Wynn Resorts · Zoox