Shop Quality Foreman

Introduction

McKenney’s has been going strong for more than seven decades. Our culture values people and ideas, and we work together to deliver the most innovative solutions to our customers. We help you grow in your career through training and support, and as an equal opportunity employer, we provide comprehensive benefits and give you a firm foundation for the future.

The Shop Quality Foreman supports the shop team to ensure the quality of project planning, fabrication, and execution is compliant with contract requirements. The Shop Quality Foreman inspects the quality of fabricated work in accordance with customer requirements, contract documents, and company standards at a minimum and stops work in progress if it does not comply. The Shop Quality Foreman identifies areas where the project team can add value for the customer, as well as quality risks, and supports efforts to mitigate them.

They build and sustain a strong quality culture where every team member takes quality personally.

• Be the expert! Demonstrate thorough knowledge of contract requirements/ documents, including contract drawings, specifications, and any other pertinent quality requirements. Review shop drawings, submittals, and IOMs against contract drawings and specifications for compliance and access requirements.
• Participate in First of Kind Inspections to identify quality risks and economization opportunities and ensure proper training and techniques are utilized for future installations.
• Visually inspect welds to ensure all code requirements are met.
• Communicate trends with operations to allow department training and education.
• Work closely with Shop Project Manager to build partnership and anticipate punch items.
• Ensure awareness of McKenney’s Quality Absolutes and McKenney's Best Practices for all craftsmen and lead Quality shop walks with project teams to ensure compliance with the 7 Quality Absolutes.
• Review all new material and equipment arriving at the warehouse or laydown yards and document any deficiencies. This documentation shall be through reports, videos, pictures, programs, and shall be digitally stored in both the customer’s requirements and the project-defined method.
• Walk the shop regularly and document the current state of quality and identify quality deficiencies to shop teams.
• Work productively with any project that requires quality tracking technology and ensure all updates are compliant with the project schedule.
• Know and understand all McKenney’s quality best practices and ensure all are being followed throughout the fabrication process through final release and loading.
• Attend and document all project system testing and ensure the testing meets project and McKenney’s requirements as it pertiman to the completeness, quality, and safety expectations.
• Document all corrections to deficiencies and ensure they are corrected per McKenney’s/Project/Customer standards.
• Regularly communicate recurring deficiencies with Shop Supervisor and Team Lead to allow for more thorough training, coaching, and accountability.
• Complete dimensional and geometric verification to allow shop drawings and spools match.
• Review all first-of-kind work, identify quality improvements, and ensure proper training and techniques are utilized for future installations.
• Regularly participate in Pre-Task Planning sessions to identify and increase awareness of quality risks and best practices associated with daily tasks.
• Capture/ document fabrication progress and quality of completed work to include that every weld is marked, spools are tagged, and material heat numbers are transferred where required.
• Document pressure testing within the Test & Inspection Log in PMConnect/Smartsheet.
• Inspect quality of subcontractor scope to ensure compliance with project requirements.
• Review and resolve outstanding Quality Observations.
• Ensure all rework is reported and tracked properly with correct craft, labor, material, and/or subcontract cost. Participate in Root Cause Analysis conversations to learn why significant reworks occur and identify lessons learned, best practices, and moving forward actions. Review outstanding actions and follow up…