Welding Supervisor

Come join our collaborative and innovative team at DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations!

DIS-TRAN Packaged Substations has been an industry leader in the design and supply of high-voltage, open-air substations, and switchyards since 1965. Over a half-century of building meaningful relationships with our customers and vendors boils down to one thing: people. We take pride in our collaborative approach where everything we do is designed to deliver the project the right way, your way.

Though we have grown over the years, and now offer new innovations like our Factory-Built

Substations, our age-old commitment will never change: to take care of you like family.

The Welding Supervisor provides operational leadership for the Factory Built Substation (FBS) Welding department, overseeing daily operations and driving safe, efficient, and timely production execution. This role is responsible for ensuring welding activities are performed in accordance with approved welding procedures, quality requirements, and established workmanship standards.

The Welding Supervisor maintains a strong and visible shop-floor presence, combining hands-on leadership and welding expertise with effective planning, coordination, and problem-solving to drive team performance and maintain production flow. This position plays a key role in aligning people, processes, and daily priorities while collaborating across teams to resolve challenges and support production schedules and customer commitments.

Success in this role requires strong leadership, professional communication, sound decision-making, and practical welding and fabrication knowledge. The Welding Supervisor must effectively lead through changing production demands while maintaining a strong culture of safety, quality, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Business Insight
• Drives Results
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Courage
• Instills Trust
• Manages Ambiguity

• Lead the Welding department by setting clear expectations, providing direction and support, and holding Welders accountable for safety, quality, productivity, and job performance.

• Foster a culture of safety, teamwork, discipline, professionalism, and operational excellence throughout the Welding department.

• Conduct regularly scheduled Welding Team meetings to communicate production priorities, address operational challenges, strengthen team coordination, and support continuous improvement.

• Support recruiting, candidate interviews, and training efforts for the Welding department; provide feedback to PSS Leadership regarding staffing needs, team capabilities, and workforce considerations based on production demands and departmental needs.

• Develop the technical capabilities of Welders through hands-on coaching and mentorship, reinforcing welding skills, workmanship standards, and adherence to approved welding procedures.

• Provide active shop-floor leadership and technical support to Welders throughout daily production activities.

• Oversee daily Welding operations to ensure production schedules, quality standards, productivity expectations, and operational targets are consistently achieved.

• Partner with the Production Manager to align Welding activities with short- and long-term production priorities, scheduling requirements, and operational objectives.

• Ensure materials, welding equipment, consumables, tools, and design drawings are available and ready ahead of scheduled production activities to minimize delays and downtime.

• Adjust labor and resources within the Welding department as needed to maintain productivity and respond to changing production demands.

• Proactively identify and…