Production Office Expeditor
About The Position
The Production Office Expeditor coordinates with purchasing, detailing, and shop personnel to expedite steel, shop drawings, production equipment CNC files, materials, and supplies. The role supports production throughput and helps meet production and delivery schedules. It creates and revises shop releases, cutting lists, CNC programs, bills of material, and other fabrication information; tracks materials and outside processing; and ensures drawing changes and fabrication holds are communicated and documented. The position works under periodic supervision focused on work progress and priorities. Employees are expected to work 40 hours per week, with overtime and weekends potentially required based on company needs.
Requirements
- High school degree or equivalent.
- Ability to understand and carry out complicated verbal and written instructions.
- Ability to use independent judgment to analyze work requirements and determine alternative methods within accepted standard practices.
- Ability to work under periodic supervision focused on progress and setting priorities.
- Thorough working knowledge of shop processing equipment's fabrication capacities.
- Good working knowledge of information flow for processing contract and service-center jobs.
- Excellent ability to read and interpret shop drawings.
- Ability to quickly learn the DWS computer bill-of-material system and computer production system.
- Good PC computer experience and ability to learn to write parts programs for CNC fabrication equipment.
- Ability to meet the described physical demands, including occasional lifting and carrying, climbing, crouching, kneeling, crawling, and reaching.
- Ability to hear sufficiently to be aware of safety issues and to read and interpret materials needed for the job.
- Wear required personal protective equipment, including steel-toe safety shoes, hearing protection, safety glasses, gloves, and hard hats.
Nice To Haves
- College education and/or experience working in a related field.
- Structural steel experience.
Responsibilities
- Work with detailing to use computer files effectively for CNC machines and create or adjust CNC programs as needed.
- Track materials needed for jobs and ensure they arrive on time.
- Collect, organize, and distribute drawings and information required by the shop and other departments.
- Resolve obvious errors and missing information on shop drawings before releasing them to the shop.
- Create shop releases and generate cutting lists, CNC program files, and other information required for fabrication.
- Revise shop releases, cutting lists, bills of material, CNC programs, and other information as necessary.
- Maintain accurate bills of material for all jobs.
- Work with shop personnel to maximize CNC program utilization and efficient operation of shop equipment.
- Schedule and track materials sent to outside vendors for processing or value-added services, including galvanizing, machine-shop work, and sub-fabrication.
- Immediately communicate changes to released shop drawings, fabrication holds, and other instructions to stop fabrication to appropriate personnel.
- Distribute revised shop drawings, revise cutting lists and other production documents, and update and document records to maintain an audit trail of revisions.
- Perform other duties as directed by the Production Office Supervisors.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
