Production Welding Supervisor (1st shift)

Schedule: Full-time position Monday–Thursday 7:00 AM–4:30 PM & Friday 7:00 AM–11:00 AM. Additional hours as needed to support production requirements.

Key Responsibilities: Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and support welding employees to promote teamwork, accountability, safety, quality, and high performance. Production Planning: Coordinate daily welding activities to ensure production schedules, customer requirements, quality standards, and delivery expectations are met. Employee Supervision: Assign work, monitor performance, provide direction, and ensure employees have the training, equipment, materials, and resources needed to perform their jobs successfully. Welding Operations: Oversee daily welding operations and ensure employees follow established procedures, work instructions, weld requirements, and production standards. Safety Leadership: Promote and enforce company safety policies and procedures while maintaining a safe, clean, and organized welding environment. Quality Management: Ensure welded products meet customer specifications and company quality standards. Identify and address weld quality concerns and implement corrective actions as needed. Welding Process Oversight: Monitor welding processes, including MIG, robotic welding, fit-up, weld appearance, and proper use of welding equipment and materials. Production Flow: Monitor workflow, staffing, material availability, equipment needs, and production progress to minimize downtime and keep jobs moving efficiently. Problem Solving: Identify production issues, bottlenecks, quality concerns, and equipment-related problems. Work with employees and other departments to develop effective solutions. Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities to improve safety, quality, productivity, efficiency, scrap reduction, and overall welding performance. Training & Development: Train, coach, and develop welding employees while identifying opportunities for cross-training and skill development. Performance Management: Provide regular feedback, recognize positive performance, and address attendance, performance, and behavioral concerns in accordance with company policies. Multi-Tasking & Prioritization: Effectively manage multiple production priorities, employee needs, quality concerns, and changing customer requirements while maintaining focus on safety and production goals. Communication: Maintain clear and effective communication with employees, management, production control, engineering, quality, maintenance, and other departments. Department Coordination: Work closely with fabrication, engineering, quality, maintenance, and other production departments to maintain efficient workflow and minimize delays. Equipment & Materials: Monitor welding equipment, consumables, fixtures, and materials to ensure employees have what they need to maintain production. Reporting & Documentation: Complete production reports, employee documentation, timekeeping approvals, quality documentation, and other required records accurately and on time.

Qualifications: Leadership Experience: Previous supervisory or leadership experience in a manufacturing environment preferred. Welding Experience: Strong hands-on welding experience, preferably in a production or fabrication environment. Manufacturing Experience: Experience in metal fabrication, contract manufacturing, or a similar production environment preferred. Welding Knowledge: Strong understanding of welding processes, weld quality, fit-up, blueprints, welding symbols, and production requirements. Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, motivate, and hold employees accountable. Problem Solving: Strong troubleshooting and decision-making skills with the ability to resolve production and quality issues. Multi-Tasking: Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and changing production demands. Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail and commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement. Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Technical Skills: Ability to read and interpret blueprints, welding symbols, work instructions, production schedules, and manufacturing documentation. Computer Skills: Proficient with basic computer programs and manufacturing systems.