About this role
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support fitters, welders, and fabrication personnel in daily shop operations.
- Assign tasks and balance workloads to meet production schedules and delivery deadlines.
- Provide technical guidance on fit-up, welding, layout, and blueprint interpretation.
- Troubleshoot fabrication and production issues.
- Monitor workflow and communicate production updates or concerns to leadership.
- Enforce safety procedures, quality standards, and shop policies.
- Coordinate with maintenance teams to minimize equipment downtime.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work environment.
- Support employee training, onboarding, and performance development.
- Work with Quality Control to ensure fabrication meets required standards.
- Assist with dimensional checks, inspections, and documentation.
- Perform additional shop leadership duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years of experience leading or supervising structural steel fabrication teams.
- Strong knowledge of welding, fit-up, layout, and structural steel fabrication.
- Experience operating or working with CNC fabrication equipment and shop machinery.
- Ability to read and interpret fabrication drawings and blueprints.
- Understanding of safety procedures, quality standards, and production workflows.
- Experience with Tekla EPM/GO preferred.
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work overtime, weekends, or flexible schedules as production demands require.