Structural Steel Shop Foreman - Cypress Employment Services

Position Title: Shop Foreman

Reports to: General Manager

Purpose of the Position: To provide overall management and coordination of all shop manufacturing and fabrication work

Responsibilities:

• Managing all aspects of the metal fabrication shop to ensure efficient and effective work performance
• Able to visualize solutions, communicate the solutions to production personnel and create an action plan
• Delegating tasks, following up, and holding personnel accountable
• Ensuring all personnel are properly trained and competent to perform required operations
• Developing and driving continuous improvement to meet quality control requirements
• Managing all production aspects to meet the high-quality standards required by our company
• Ensuring adequate planning methodology is maintained to ensure timely completion of production
• Implementing and maintaining preventative maintenance procedures
• Ensuring safety standards are followed at all times
• Interviewing, training, and evaluating shop personnel
• ·Scheduling all work in the shop to meet delivery deadlines
• ·Working with Estimators to make certain the specifications for each job are correct and “do-able”
• ·Providing guidance and direction to each of the shop staff as needed
• ·Informing the appropriate people of any issues on a production job
• ·Ensuring all machinery and tooling in the shop are maintained and in full operating condition
• ·Keeping all shipping on schedule and alerting appropriate parties if a problem occurs
• ·Tracking consumables in shop and in the field

Necessary Skills and Knowledge:

• ·Strong mechanical aptitude
• ·Reading design drawings
• ·Familiar with every process in the shop
• ·Knowledge of steel fabrication
• ·Follow written procedures
• ·Adaptable to changing conditions
• ·Organized
• ·Decisive
• ·Able to solve process issues
• ·Strong people management skills
• ·Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• ·Able to work with office personnel
• ·“Can do” attitude to get things done
• Supervises the Following Positions:
• ·Shop personnel

Key Working Relationships (Internal & External):

• ·General Manager
• ·QC Manager
• ·Shop Personnel
• ·Customers
• ·Vendors

Job Experience

• Minimum five (5) years of hands-on production management experience in a steel fabrication environment
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage both direct reports and production capacity
• Demonstrated ability to plan and execute effective and efficient fabrication processes
• Knowledge of and previous experience with safety programs