Installation Foreman

Requirements

• Plan and direct the assigned crew's daily work using approved drawings, work packages, priorities, and installation sequence.
  
• Conduct pre-task planning, toolbox talks, job-hazard reviews, crew briefings, and equipment checks; verify PPE, fall protection, and other required controls.
  
• Coordinate the crew's tools, equipment, lifts, rigging, materials, staging, housekeeping, and immediate work-area needs.
  
• Keep the crew working from current approved documents and stop or escalate work when information is missing, conflicting, unsafe, or outside approved scope.
  
• Monitor crew progress, productivity, labor hours, equipment, materials, delays, and constraints; report variance early and help limit avoidable rework, downtime, and cost.
  
• Inspect work in progress and completed work to verify proper fit, alignment, fastening, sealing, finish, weather-tightness, and overall workmanship; identify and correct deficiencies before work continues or is concealed.
  
• Resolve routine crew-level installation issues within approved procedures and promptly escalate drawing, design, scope, schedule, cost, or customer concerns.
  
• Provide complete daily records, progress information, photos, as-built information, and closeout documentation.
  

• Participate in installation-readiness discussions by identifying crew, drawing, material, equipment, access, safety, and sequencing needs before mobilization.
  
• Serve as the Project Manager's eyes and ears for the assigned work. Provide accurate daily updates, photographs, labor and progress information, and prompt notice of delays, shortages, changed conditions, or potential added cost.
  
• Complete assigned field activities supporting testing, commissioning, customer training, turnover, demobilization, and project closeout.
  

• Set clear expectations, demonstrate the work, observe performance, coach promptly, and confirm understanding.
  
• Treat employees, customers, partners, and other trades with dignity and respect—even under schedule pressure or during disagreement.
  
• Report and resolve routine conflicts professionally using facts, calm discussion, and company standards.
  
• Raise concerns and improvement ideas constructively, with practical options and a company-first recommendation.
  
• Stop unsafe, unqualified, or nonconforming work and immediately report incidents, injuries, near misses, property damage, and environmental concerns.
  

• High school diploma required.
  
• Technical training, trade-school coursework, apprenticeship training, or an associate's degree in construction, manufacturing, engineering technology, or a related field is desirable.
  
• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in field installation, structural or specialty construction, metal-building erection, mechanical assembly, millwright work, manufacturing, or a comparable environment.
  
• At least two years of demonstrated experience leading crews or directing daily field work.
  
• Ability to independently read and apply construction, manufacturing, and installation drawings and specifications.
  
• Ability and willingness to work safely from heights and at elevation using required fall-protection systems.\
  
• Practical job-site math and layout skills, including measurement, fractions, decimals, angles, elevations, squaring, leveling, and transferring dimensions from approved drawings to field conditions.
  
• Working proficiency with applicable lifts, forklifts, rigging, power tools, and measuring/layout equipment.
  
• Strong field judgment, documentation discipline, respectful leadership, conflict-resolution ability, and clear written and verbal communication.
  
• Valid driver's license, clean driving record, and ability to meet company vehicle-insurability requirements.
  
• Ability and willingness to travel out of town, stay overnight, and work project schedules that may include extended days, overtime, weekends, and multi-week assignments.
  
• OSHA 10 completed or obtained within the company-established timeframe; OSHA 30, first-aid/CPR, competent-person, and other relevant credentials are preferred.
  

• Ability and experience safely operating large trucks and towing, backing, maneuvering, inspecting, and securing applicable trailers, subject to required licensing, qualification, and company authorization.\
  
• Experience with pre-engineered buildings, metal-building erection, curtain-wall construction, or the erection and installation of structural aluminum and glazing components.
  
• Knowledge of crane lifting operations, load handling, and rigging practices; forklift and other relevant credentials are also desirable.
  

Physical and Work Environment

This role regularly works in active manufacturing and construction environments with noise, dust, weather, moving equipment, and changing site conditions. The employee must frequently stand, walk, climb, balance, bend, kneel, reach, and work at elevation using required fall protection. The role requires frequently lifting and carrying up to 50 pounds and pushing, pulling, or positioning tools and materials; team lifting or mechanical assistance must be used for heavier, awkward, or oversized loads. Out-of-town and overnight travel is required based on project needs.

Apply now: Submit your resume and a summary of your crew-lead and installation experience through the job-board application. A job-related pre-employment test or screening, which may include a practical evaluation, background check, or driving-record review, may be required as permitted by law.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and responsibility level
  
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
  
• Company-paid short-term disability and accident coverage
  
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  
• Generous paid time off
  
• Company-paid YMCA membership to support health & wellness
  
• Complimentary membership to a local indoor golf simulator facility
  
• Long-term career opportunity within a growing manufacturing company with integrated engineering, production, and installation teams