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Support

Family rungs priced

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51-0000

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Coordinates

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pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Entry-level support role assisting with daily manufacturing operations tasks under close supervision. At the Support Associate (S1) level, the role owns a single task type or queue, routine, well-defined requests, and drives individual transactions. None.

What this level does

Perform prescribed daily operational tasks on the line — moving work-in-progress between stations, staging materials, and cleaning down work areas — following specific written instructions from the shift lead
Record production counts, run times, and scrap into the production management software using standard data-entry screens as each job completes
Read the HMI (Human Machine Interface) display to note run/stop status and report readily-visible faults or stoppages to a senior coordinator
Follow posted safety regulations and company policies for the tasks assigned, wearing required PPE and completing standard quality and safety sign-off sheets

Knowledge applied: General knowledge of shop-floor routines — where jobs move, how to stage material, and how to enter counts on standard screens; answers to questions are readily available from the lead or posted instructions.
Complexity & problem solving: Routine, prescribed operational tasks; issues are escalated rather than solved.
Collaboration & interaction: Completes own assigned tasks with standard interactions with the shift lead and immediate coworkers.
Typical experience: 0–1 years; minimal experience.

Skills at this level

Manufacturing/process domain knowledge: — Understands how jobs, materials, and setups flow through the lines and cells so day-to-day operations run smoothly, and knows the standard sequences well enough to re-order or re-route work when a changeover or shortage disrupts them.
Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software: — Enters and reconciles job completions, material consumption, and downtime codes in the MOM/production-management system, and at senior levels defines the transactions, codes, and dashboards operations coordinators rely on.
Production tracking against targets: — Compares daily production counts and run times against schedule targets, flags shortfalls with their apparent cause (material, changeover, or machine downtime), and produces the daily-management metrics summary.
HMI monitoring: — Reads the Human Machine Interface display to determine run/stop status and machine faults, reports visible stoppages, and correlates HMI records with physical counts when reconciling shift data.
Quality control: — Performs routine quality checks at defined line points, logs the measurements, and sets aside product that fails standard tolerance for review, escalating recurring reject trends for root-cause investigation.
Downtime and yield analysis: — Uses performance-analysis software to spot recurring downtime patterns and yield losses across lines, identifies the root cause, and proposes workflow or process changes that improve labor efficiency and on-time delivery.
Shift and cross-function coordination: — Sequences and balances work across a line or cell, stages maintenance requests, confirms material availability with the planner, and manages handoffs so production continues across shift changes.
Safety and policy compliance: — Follows and, at senior levels, guides others on posted safety regulations and company policies for shop-floor tasks — PPE use, quality holds, and standard sign-off records.
Lean and continuous improvement support: — Supports Lean-culture and continuous-yield-improvement initiatives by supplying hard production data and setting up the tracking that measures process-efficiency and quality gains and confirms whether changes hold.
Data reconciliation: — Resolves discrepancies between HMI/MOM system records and physical counts at end of shift, re-checking figures that look off before they enter the daily production, downtime, and yield reports.

Model-authored from 17 retrieved sources, then adversarially reviewed by an independent judge panel and held to a minimum-evidence floor before publication. Distinct from corpus-extracted content, which is labelled as such.

Pay across the ladder

No priced rungs for this family's ladder yet.

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 51-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+8.6%First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers · United States

631,100 → 685,140 jobs

67,700 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 66,862

Growth — new jobs (1%)Exits — backfill (99%)

1% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +1.2%
Growth share of hiring: 1%
Exit / retention pressure high: 99%
Openings / year: 67,700

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level S1 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$62k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$56k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$52k

Boulder, CO$51k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$51k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$49k

Lexington Park, MD$47k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$47k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $37k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates S1 (S1 — Support Associate) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: A single task type or queue
Autonomy: Close supervision; follows defined procedures
Complexity: Routine, well-defined requests
Impact: Individual transactions
Decision rights: Acts within scripts; escalates exceptions
Leadership: None

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

The next rung from S1 is S2.

Performance criteria for this profile render in the assessment kit →

People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Accounting Clerk	jfo_jfm_accounting-controllership-accounting-management::S1	—	confident0.00
Cost Accounting Clerk	jfo_jfm_accounting-cost-accounting::S1	—	confident0.00
General Accounting Clerk	jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting-management::S1	—	confident0.00
Accounting Support Associate	jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting::S1	—	confident0.00

Capability cluster

O*NET 51-1011

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

S1

jfo_jfm_manufacturing-operations-manufacturing-operations-general::S1

Manufacturing Operations Support Associate

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: S
Universal level: 1 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

jfo_jfm_accounting-controllership-accounting-management::S1 · S1confident0.00

jfo_jfm_accounting-cost-accounting::S1 · S1confident0.00

jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting-management::S1 · S1confident0.00

jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting::S1 · S1confident0.00

jfo_jfm_administrative-corporate-services-administrative-services-ma::S1 · S1confident0.00

jfo_jfm_administrative-corporate-services-service-delivery::S1 · S1confident0.00

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 51-1011	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-31Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)