Metal Fabrication/Weld Production Team Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Own the line. Elevate the team. Deliver results.

Join us as the Metal Fabrication/Weld Production Team Lead, where you’ll orchestrate people, processes, and equipment to hit safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets across fabrication and welding areas.

Role highlights

• Develop, train, and inspire a high-performing team; set expectations, coach performance, and build a culture of collaboration and accountability.
• Proactively address production risks—material shortages, equipment downtime, delays—by instituting playbooks that cut lost time.
• Align staffing and schedules to production/testing plans; coordinate activities across departments and, when needed, multiple shifts.
• Track manufacturing costs, output, and methods; ensure optimal utilization of hours, skills, machinery, and facilities.
• Collaborate with engineering to refine equipment, tooling, and processes for better safety, throughput, and quality.
• Use data to forecast labor needs and department efficiency; drive continuous improvement and cost-reduction projects to completion with measurable gains.
• Oversee budgets and initiate corrective actions to stay within plan.
• Audit incoming materials and finished goods for quality compliance.
• Lead the full spectrum of supervisory duties: recruiting/hiring, planning and assigning work, EEO/AA compliance, performance management, and department budgeting.

What you need to succeed

• Strong communicator with demonstrated leadership in manufacturing or warehousing.
• Education/experience paths: HS Diploma (or equivalent) + 3+ years in manufacturing with prior people leadership; OR Bachelor’s degree + 1+ year in manufacturing.
• Cross-department exposure preferred.
• Continuous improvement experience with tangible results.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing equipment, procedures, and production/quality standards; ability to read/interpret blueprints and engineering drawings may be required by location.
• Advanced problem-solving for both personnel and production issues.
• Proficiency with office software and enterprise systems like SAP.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Fluent in English and the primary local language of the site.

Preferred proficiencies

• Supervisory experience
• Production optimization
• Welding setups for production
• Machine setups for production runs
• Manufacturing environment experience

Compensation (NY State)

Base pay: $70,000–$90,000 USD annually, depending on experience. Final compensation within this range is determined by skills, experience, qualifications, and applicable laws.

Why Briggs & Stratton

From Milwaukee, Wisconsin to more than 100 countries across six continents, Briggs & Stratton delivers innovative power and energy solutions—engines, lithium-ion systems, standby generators, energy storage, and turf-care products—through brands like Briggs & Stratton®, Vanguard®, Ferris®, Billy Goat®, and Branco®.

Accessibility

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Briggs & Stratton is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. The Company conducts all employment practices without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law. Briggs & Stratton also undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for protected veterans.

This posting summarizes the role and may not include every task or responsibility.