Night Shift Fabrication Supervisor - Now Hiring

Night Shift Fabrication Supervisor - Now Hiring

PKM Steel Service, Inc. - Salina, KS 67401

Overview

Level: Experienced Position Type: Full Time Category: Manufacturing

Essential Functions:

Summary: The Night Shift Structural Steel Fabrication Supervisor oversees all fabrication operations during night shift hours, ensuring production goals are met safely, accurately, and efficiently. This role provides hands-on leadership, supports a high performing team of welders, fitters, machine operators, and laborers, and maintains strict adherence to quality standards and job specifications. The supervisor is responsible for workflow management, personnel oversight, training, safety enforcement, and coordination with daytime leadership to maintain seamless shop operations.

Essential Functions:

• Monitors work done in their area for accuracy, quality of workmanship and compliance with job requirements.
• Manages work force which includes, but is not limited to, scheduling work flow, assigning manpower, problem solving, confronting non-performance issues, recognizing outstanding performance, monitoring quality levels, notifying Human Resources of performance issues and completing all required documentation.
• Observes all work and safety rules/regulations. Leads safety effort including, but not limited to, leading safety meetings, monitoring work force to insure safe work practices are followed and addressing instances of non-compliance.
• Maintains confidentiality of all proprietary information.
• Maintains active involvement in pre-job meetings. Reviews drawings and other job information prior to and during fabrication. Administers written/verbal instructions, reads and interprets blueprints, patterns, cutting lists, sketches and all other forms of production communication.
• Distributes and monitors production schedules. Coordinates work with various departments. Accurately communicates scheduling changes and delegates same to Leadmen. Monitors and measures area productivity and throughput.
• Performs and audits set-ups, lay-out and fabrication to ensure compliance with AISC, customer and internal quality control standards, guidelines and restrictions. Inspects, audits and verifies area output for quality of workmanship and schedule adherence. Works closely and cooperates fully with internal and external inspectors. Identifies problems and solutions; notifies Shop Foreman of occurrence and corrective actions taken.
• Requisitions and restocks materials, supplies, tools and equipment as required. Arranges storage of same in work area to ensure optimum efficiency and productivity. Monitors and documents usage. Completes required accounting documentation for employee purchases of safety supplies or miscellaneous tools.

• Responsible for insuring work in their area is completed in a safe, timely, cost efficient and quality manner.
• Monitors and ensures routine preventative maintenance tasks are completed and documented correctly. Administers appropriate progressive discipline for non-performance. Completes assigned maintenance tasks.
• Accurately completes all required documentation. Audits documentation completed by Leadmen and work force members. Addresses non-performance and administers appropriate disciplinary actions.
• Ensures new personnel receive adequate orientation and training in essential functions of their job classifications, safe work practices of their assigned position and overall operation of the fabrication and production functions. Delivers hands-on training sessions as required. Coaches and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviors and skills for area Leadmen and work force members.
• Effectively communicates changes in priorities or completion dates due to unscheduled projects of higher priority or urgency.
• Establishes, communicates and monitors personal and departmental performance and improvement goals in support of organizational objectives. Communicates results to Supervisor. Encourages and promotes continuous personal development, skill attainment and optimal performance for self and others.

Knowledge and Skills:

Knowledge and Skills:

• Thorough education and/or experience and intimate knowledge of facets, variables, and requirements of both structural and miscellaneous steel fabrication.
• Understands applicable workmanship provisions of current AWS and AISC specifications. Able to translate, assist and train shop personnel in these requirements.

• Knowledgeable of individual job specifications and requirements.
• Knowledgeable and skilled in essential duties of operator classifications reporting to them.
• Accurate knowledge and skill in interpreting and following blueprints, shop drawings, cutting lists and all other approved methods of fabrication-related communication.
• Demonstrates skill in administration of objective, progressive disciplinary action, coaching, persuasive influencing, written and verbal communications, creative and pro-active problem solving, decision making and leadership practices.
• Ability to coordinate multiple projects to meet business requirements and schedule workflow to achieve optimum output.
• Demonstrates high degree of professional behavior, appearance, work ethic, attention to detail, honesty and reliability.
• Demonstrates ability to manage stress constructively and maintain professional, positive, even temperament during periods of frustration, ambiguity and change. Demonstrable skills in interpersonal communication and conflict management.