Job Description:
Oversee and coordinate the daily operations of the production floor, ensuring the efficient and timely manufacturing of goods.
Key Responsibilities
Production & Planning: Assign daily tasks, manage workflow, and ensure project deadlines are met.
Quality Control: Inspect finished welds for compliance with blueprints, codes (AWS, ASME, ISO), and standards.
Safety Enforcement: Enforce PPE usage, conduct safety audits, and maintain a safe, clean (6S) work environment.
Personnel Management: Hire, train, mentor, and evaluate welder performance, while addressing disciplinary issues.
Technical Oversight: Oversee welding, cutting, and assembly operations (SMAW, GMAW, FCAW, GTAW).
Documentation: Maintain records of welding procedure specifications (WPS) and employee certifications.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Experience: Minimum 3–5 years of hands-on welding experience, with previous supervisory experience preferred.
Knowledge: Deep understanding of welding codes (AWS), metallurgy, blueprints, and NDT methods.
Leadership: Ability to lead, motivate, and train a diverse team to foster a culture of accountability.
Technical Skills: Proficiency with MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux Core welding processes.
Certifications: Certified Welding Supervisor (CWS) from AWS is highly desirable.
Work Environment:
Ability to work in manufacturing facilities and regularly be exposed to varying and extreme temperatures, loud noises, dust, chemical fumes, sharp metal objects and heavy forklift traffic.
Ability to lift up to 50 lbs, climb, stoop, walk and sit for prolonged periods of time during working hours.
Disclaimer:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at a time with or without notice. This job description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee may be required to perform, and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. The company reserves the right to revise this job description at any time. The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily. If requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job, absent undue hardship.
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