Supervisor Welding

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Status: This is a full-time; salaried position
Hours: Monday – Thursday: 6:00am – 3:00pm & Friday: 6:00 – 12:00pm

Benefits Offered to Full-time Employees: Health, Dental, Optical, Medical FSA/HSA, Dependent Care (FSA), Basic Life Plan, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, 401K with Company Match, Profit Sharing (ROA), PTO (Vacation), Holidays, Jury Duty, and Funeral Leave

JOB SUMMARY: This position is responsible for the leadership, direction, safety and scheduling of all welding personnel. This position is also responsible to prioritize jobs in such a way as to meet all customer expectations including quality, cost and delivery.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Schedule and complete in a timely, cost-efficient manner all installation and upkeep of production equipment. Coordinate efforts with all production managers and supervisors.
• Identify and eliminate potential safety hazards and issues.
• Schedule and monitor daily preventative maintenance, shift, weekend and on call maintenance for area of responsibility. Schedules and oversees projects requiring mechanics from Coldspring to travel and work at other company locations.
• Monitors shop floor daily activities to identify performance issues and works with employees to solve these issues and create opportunities for success.
• Performs performance appraisals on every direct report annually.
• Participates in weekly maintenance meetings.
• Lead CIT and Safety meetings.
• Monitor/Review/Coach on QCDSM Boards and AR compliance and completion.
• Estimates labor and material costs on projects in area of responsibility.
• Monitor/Review/Coach on 5S compliance and conduct monthly 5S audit.
• Monitor/Review/Coach on daily TPM improvement opportunities.
• Work with the Director of Support Services on controlling all department costs and developing metrics to track these costs to contain and improve.
• Monitor all major repairs in area of responsibility.
• Validate time system inputs for area of responsibility.
• Ensure all training is current and that they possess the needed skills to perform the job.
• This position works approximately 80% of the time in the production environment and 20% in an office environment.
  • Subject to extreme temperature changes, heights, confined spaces, dirty and wet conditions, chemicals, oils/grease, dust and noise.
• May have need to travel to other company or customer locations.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Post-secondary technical degree in the skilled trades supervised plus appropriate experience. Must also be certified in welding to the AWS standard of D1.1
• 3-5 years as certified welder, 1-2years of which should include supervisory experience.
• This position requires above average verbal and written communication skills.
• Thorough knowledge of production operations, including all safety requirements.
• Must have a strong mechanical background, be goal oriented with ability to understand and create performance metrics for quality, cost and delivery of maintenance services.
• Must be able to direct and lead people.
• Must have thorough knowledge of machining and welding.
• Must be familiar with quality and production related work instructions and lean manufacturing systems and be knowledgeable of the TPM, CIT and 5S Systems.