Fabrication Manager
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About The Position
Do you enjoy being part of a successful fabrication team? Would you enjoy working closely with a team to supply necessary parts for customer projects? Join our Fabrication Team! The Fabrication Manager is an integral part of the operations leadership staff and is responsible for coordinating activities of workers engaged in the fabrication of sheet metal products, structural steel skids, and copper parts. This role involves developing, implementing, and monitoring processes designed to build an ever-improving quality of products, safely, on time, and under budget. The Fabrication Manager will propose changes and equipment necessities to the Operations Manager for improvements. This position requires a high energy level, a sense of urgency, self-motivation, and attention to detail, leading by example and holding processes and people accountable to defined standards. As Fabrication Manager, you will help build a positive culture among hourly staff, ensuring that leaders set the example by leading from the front and always handling issues with professionalism. You will look for efficiencies throughout fabrication, offering solutions to complex daily issues while adhering to all Safe Practices, wearing and caring for all PPE required by OSHA and Company Policy. You will need to understand units of measure, using calipers, tape measures, and specialized calibration equipment, and have the ability to read CADCAM files and blueprints to validate part accuracy, quality of product, and to understand throughput capacity within the operation. Your responsibilities will include analyzing work orders, bills of materials, and blueprints to determine information such as material to be used, type of operations, and sequence of operations required. You will also look for allotted time for jobs and convey this to employees involved in producing the production work order. Additionally, you will requisition dies, fixtures, and material as necessary, and be responsible for associated machinery and reports needed, as well as maintenance and machine repairs. Ensuring machines are set up and operated optimally, you will oversee the inspection of all work in progress and study production schedules to estimate worker hour requirements for job completion. You will confer with Supervisors and Leads to coordinate activities of individual departments and manage employees in the department to time estimates for each job, holding them accountable for these times. You will recommend measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product, suggesting changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency of the shop, department, or work crew. Establishing or adjusting work procedures to meet production schedules will also be part of your role, along with assisting in plant layout and process and material flow. You will relate and enforce company policies and safety regulations to workers, analyze and resolve work problems, or assist workers in solving work problems. Selecting, managing, and coordinating with subordinate lead personnel for each area of manufacturing will be essential, as will reviewing time and production records and initiating or suggesting plans to motivate workers to achieve work goals. You will assist sales functions as required to establish methods, costing, and scheduling of custom products, and will be directly responsible for 20-50 employees in the fabrication/machine shop. Carrying out managerial responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws will include ensuring that employees are trained, performing performance appraisals, recommending rewards and/or discipline for employees, addressing complaints, and resolving problems. You will also perform annual reviews and initial pay rate increases for all fabrication employees with the operations manager.
