Lead, Fitter

Summary:

Fabrication Lead is responsible for providing quality fabrication on-time with customer specifications. They will work closely with the team of welders and fabricators to complete all objectives and work through challenges in the most time and cost-effective manner.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Lead and oversee a team of fabricators, providing direction, support, and guidance to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and according to quality standards.
• Responsible for training and onboarding new employees, ensuring they understand job responsibilities, processes, safety requirements, and quality standards.
• Coordinates with welding, fabrication, and saw operation process by working closely with other departments.
• Inspects weldment fit-up, assembly, and root/joint preparation prior to the welding process.
• Responsible for in-process and final weld inspection for accuracy, finished weld size, appearance, and completeness per the customer’s specifications.
• Ensures that stress, heat treat, and special process certifications from venders are accurate and complete.
• Keeps raw stock kept to proper specifications.
• Coordinates with Build Project Managers (BPM) and Quality Assurance departments to complete products to customer’s satisfaction.
• Maintain inventory of various welding consumables, and work with purchasing to keep this inventory stocked
• Operate and/or use forklifts, cranes, hoists, slings, grinders, cutting torches, hand tools, drills, punches, and instruments of measurements.
• Job planning with Fabrication Manager and scheduling for their team members.
• Oversees Sand Blasting area and lines up their jobs.
• Able to cover for other shop personnel when out and assist in completion of a job.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Work Experience:

• Five to ten years’ experience with MIG & TIG welding and fabrication processes preferred.

• High School diploma or GED required, along with five to ten years experience with in related industry.

• Or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Enovia experience preferred.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance Requirements:

• This position may require a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

List of needed knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully accomplish the duties and responsibilities of the job.

• Ability to understand welding symbols/diagrams, read blueprints, and/or other printed instructional material in the welding of products or parts.
• Experience in leading a team of welders, fabrications, or similar.
• Familiar with a variety of welder concepts, practices, and procedures.

• Reads and understands blueprints, schematics, and/or measuring devices.
• Follows processes and standard procedures.
• Hands on, get it done attitude.
• Uses hand tools and power tools.
• Work in a high energy, high volume, rapidly changing environment.
• Displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner.
• Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved.
• Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.
• Understands how to use the computers, including such tasks as turning the computer on and off, locating and opening files, navigate to websites, perform searches, and download files.
• Easy to approach and can build constructive and effective relationships.
• Performs consistently under stressful conditions.
• Cross-functionality in other areas of the aerospace industry.
• Can handle frequent interruptions and can multi-task.
• Analyzes and diagnoses problems and works independently to solve them.
• Inspects equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
• Works collaboratively and build strategic relations with colleagues, coworkers, and contractors.
• Works effectively with different levels of management, team members and customers.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.

Work Conditions:

Environment Type:

• Indoor. Production environment. Temperature controlled, unless products and/or equipment is located outdoors.

Exposure Types:

• Bloodborne pathogens
• Small and/or enclosed spaces
• Cuts and/or burns
• Dirt, dust, grease and/or oil
• Noisy environment
• Metal shavings
• Commercial chemicals
• Metal sparks

Work Hours:

• Standard work schedule, overtime may be necessary for meeting deadlines, required travel, and emergent conditions.

Travel Requirements:

• This position may involve travel up to 10% of the time.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the duties and responsibilities of this job. 

• Medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds.     
• Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Creates a work environment that promotes and encourages team members’ participation to attain common and individual objectives.
• Operate a motor vehicle, forklift, and/or other heavy equipment.
• Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Prolonged periods working on feet, using tools, and performing repetitive actions that entail frequent bending and stooping.
• Read instructions, operate machines, and inspect parts produced.
• Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.     
• Visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and operation of machines.