crew boss
Supervises the workers
A crew boss is the person in charge of a work crew, responsible for directing and supervising the group's labor.
The term appears most often in contexts involving manual or outdoor work—construction, agriculture, logging, firefighting: The crew boss assigned each worker a section of the orchard.
In wildland firefighting, crew boss is a specific supervisory position with defined responsibilities.
- foremanWorker who directs others
- supervisorOne who directs workers
- chain of commandFormal authority hierarchy
- gangOrganized criminal group
- constructionProcess of building something
hard hat · hardhat · safety vest · site · labor · manual labor · workers · shift · punch clock · lead · overseer · jobsite · chain gang · taskmaster · barking orders · blueprints · scaffold · union
- firefightersfirefighter, firefighters, fireman, fire captain, hotshots
crew bosslaborer
Physical task performer
worker · subordinate · underling · rank and file · grunt
crew bosshand
Grasping body part
field hand · deckhand · roustabout · navvy · manual laborer
crew bossbottom rung
Lowest position on hierarchy
new hire · apprentice · trainee · helper · gofer
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