Team Lead - Welding (TIG) - 2nd Shift

Hourly Lead — Welding (2nd Shift) Gainesville, Georgia area | 2nd Shift — 4×10, Monday–Thursday, 3:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Full-time · Hourly · Direct hire | Reports to the 2nd Shift Manager | Leads a crew of approximately six TIG Welders Lead the second-shift welding crew — TIG work on stainless food-contact equipment, where weld quality is a food-safety requirement rather than a cosmetic one. The hiring company builds stainless steel processing equipment used in food production — machines that run through daily washdown and have to hold up to food-safety audit. A second shift is being stood up from scratch, and these lead roles are among the first seats being filled. Why this shift A three-day weekend, every week. Four ten-hour days, Monday through Thursday, and you are off Friday. You are building a crew rather than inheriting one. The shift starts with these leads, and the people who follow are hired around them. Overtime is expected to be minimal. The schedule is the schedule. Second shift runs against the traffic in both directions, which makes a longer commute far more workable than it looks on a map. What you will be doing Work alongside the crew. This is a working lead role — expect to be welding for a good share of the shift. Set and hold the weld quality standard for the shift: fit-up, fusion, distortion control and finish, judged against what the part actually has to pass. Coach the welders on your crew, including strong fabricators who are new to sanitary stainless work. Keep stainless tooling dedicated and contamination controlled. On food equipment that is a warranty and audit issue, not a preference. Run the floor for your area: assign work against the schedule, keep people moving, and flag anything that will not make its date early enough for it to matter. Set the safety standard by how you work, not by what you say. Second shift runs with limited salaried presence on site, so what you accept becomes the standard. Train and coach your crew. Most of them will be newer to the operation than you are. Own in-process quality for your area: check work against the print before it moves, and stop and elevate non-conforming work rather than passing it down the line. Keep the paperwork straight — job travelers, counts, and whatever else gets recorded against the work. Hand off cleanly to first shift: what ran, what is staged, what broke, and what is waiting on someone. What we are looking for Three to five years in a lead or supervisory role. Close counts. If you have been the person others come to when something goes wrong, say so. Industry matters less than the leading does. A manufacturing background is a plus, not a requirement. A stable work history. How long you stayed matters more here than how many places you have been. Comfortable with a tape measure and calipers, and able to read a print and work to it. Genuinely safety-minded, and willing to be the person who speaks up. Able to sustain the schedule and the commute. This is a night shift, four days a week, and it has to still work for you in month three. Strong hands-on TIG experience, with the judgment to tell good work from work that will not pass. Experience welding stainless — 304 and 316 — and managing thin material without warping or burning through. Familiarity with sanitary or food-grade weld requirements, surface finish expectations, and back-purging. Able to teach technique, not only perform it. Selected candidates complete a Caliper assessment, consistent with how the company hires all leads and supervisors. Background screening and a five-panel drug screen are completed before start. The hiring company is an equal opportunity employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr