Shop Supervisor

Gas City Shop Supervisor

Our mission is to identify, hire, and retain the very best people. Our core values include keeping people safe, integrity, humility, drive, loyalty, and a positive attitude.

CCC was awarded the Top Workplaces USA Award for 2022, 2023, 2024, and earned the Top Workplaces Regional Awards from the Detroit Free Press from 2017 – 2024.

We offer a competitive wage and benefit compensation package that includes medical, dental, vision, disability, vacation pay, holiday pay, personal time, employee stock ownership program (ESOP), and a generous 401K program.

The Gas City Shop Supervisor is responsible for the daily leadership, supervision, and coordination of fabrication, welding, machine repair, equipment rebuilding, and equipment refurbishment activities. This position ensures work is completed safely, efficiently, on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with established quality standards.

The successful candidate must demonstrate strong leadership skills and the ability to set clear expectations, develop employees, hold the team accountable, resolve issues, and build a culture centered on safety, quality, productivity, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

This position is dedicated to fabrication, machine repair, equipment refurbishment, estimating, and shop leadership operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strong daily leadership and direction to fabricators, welders, mechanics, machinists, and other assigned shop personnel.
• Establish clear performance expectations, work standards, priorities, and accountability measures.
• Lead by example through professionalism, consistency, work ethic, safety awareness, and commitment to quality.
• Coach, mentor, train, and develop employees to improve technical skills, productivity, and career readiness.
• Address performance, attendance, conduct, and conflict issues promptly, consistently, and professionally.
• Identify and develop future shop leaders and support workforce succession planning.
• Promote teamwork, employee engagement, open communication, and continuous improvement.

Fabrication Operations

• Plan, organize, and supervise daily fabrication, welding, fitting, machining, assembly, and repair activities.
• Oversee fabrication of structural steel, machine components, platforms, guards, supports, conveyors, and specialty assemblies.
• Review drawings, blueprints, specifications, work orders, and customer requirements before work begins.
• Coordinate labor, materials, tooling, equipment, and subcontracted services to meet production schedules.
• Monitor labor productivity, workflow, equipment utilization, and schedule performance.
• Maintain an orderly, safe, and efficient fabrication and machine repair work area.

Machine Repair & Equipment Refurbishment

• Lead the diagnosis, repair, rebuilding, and refurbishment of industrial machinery and equipment.
• Develop repair scopes, work plans, labor requirements, material lists, and testing requirements.
• Oversee disassembly, inspection, troubleshooting, machining, welding, fabrication, reassembly, alignment, and operational testing.
• Coordinate outsourced machining, balancing, coatings, heat treatment, and specialty repair services when required.
• Confirm repaired or refurbished equipment meets customer, operational, quality, and safety requirements before release.

Estimating & Cost Control

• Prepare labor and material estimates for fabrication, machine repair, rebuilding, and refurbishment projects.
• Develop material takeoffs, labor-hour forecasts, vendor requests, and subcontractor cost comparisons.
• Support proposal development, scope clarification, production planning, and project handoff activities.
• Monitor actual labor and material costs against estimates and identify corrective actions when necessary.
• Help improve estimate accuracy, shop efficiency, and project profitability.

Safety & Quality

• Promote and enforce company safety policies, shop procedures, and applicable OSHA requirements.
• Conduct toolbox talks, safety meetings, work-area inspections, and corrective action follow-up.
• Ensure employees use required personal protective equipment and safe work practices.
• Inspect work throughout fabrication and repair processes and verify compliance with drawings, specifications, and customer requirements.
• Reduce rework through proper planning, training, inspection, root-cause review, and process improvement.
• Maintain required job documentation, inspection records, and testing results.

Materials, Parts & Shop Tooling

• Coordinate requirements for steel, repair parts, welding supplies, shop consumables, and production tooling.
• Monitor material usage and inventory levels to support uninterrupted shop operations.
• Work with purchasing personnel and vendors to obtain competitive pricing and timely delivery.
• Protect and maintain shop tools, production equipment, and company assets assigned to the operation.

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in industrial fabrication, welding, machine repair, equipment rebuilding, industrial maintenance, or a related field.
• Three or more years of supervisory or leadership experience in a shop, manufacturing, repair, or industrial environment.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, develop, and hold skilled tradespeople accountable.
• Strong working knowledge of welding, fabrication, mechanical systems, machining processes, and industrial equipment repair.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, engineering drawings, repair specifications, and fabrication details.
• Experience estimating labor, materials, outside services, and project costs.
• Strong decision-making, communication, conflict-resolution, planning, and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with conveyor systems, material-handling equipment, gearboxes, pumps, process equipment, or custom machinery.
• Welding, machining, industrial maintenance, or safety certifications.
• OSHA 30 certification.
• Experience working with both union and non-union skilled trades.
• Experience with CAD drawings or fabrication-detailing software.
• Union affiliation or prior experience working in a union environment is preferred, but not required.
• Experience operating, programming, troubleshooting, and optimizing CNC plasma cutting tables is preferred.

Core Competencies

• Strong Leadership & Team Development
• Accountability & Performance Management
• Fabrication Operations
• Machine Repair & Rebuilding
• Safety Leadership
• Estimating & Cost Control
• Production Planning & Scheduling
• Quality Assurance
• Continuous Improvement
• Customer Focus
• Communication & Collaboration

Performance Measures

• Safety performance and compliance
• Labor productivity and utilization
• On-time project completion
• Estimate accuracy and cost control
• Project profitability
• Quality and rework performance
• Employee development and retention
• Customer satisfaction

Physical & Work Requirements

• Ability to work in an active industrial fabrication and machine repair shop environment.
• Ability to stand, walk, bend, climb, and lift materials or components as required by the position.
• Ability to wear required personal protective equipment and follow all shop safety rules.
• Ability to review work at machines, fabrication tables, welding stations, and repair areas.