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Engineering Build Supervisor

Job in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, 14266, USA
Listing for: Socket.dev
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-22
Job specializations:
  • Manufacturing / Production
    Fabrication, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 70000 - 95000 USD Yearly USD 70000.00 95000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

GTI is a contract manufacturing partner supporting customers in renewable energy, power generation, infrastructure, and industrial systems.

We fabricate custom designed, purpose-built enclosures and skids for our customers and perform mechanical and electrical integration in-house, delivering a true turn-key product to our customers. Our scope spans Engineering, prototype builds, through full production, requiring teams that can move fast, adapt, and execute with precision.

GTI Values:
Safety I Quality I Customer Obsession I Speed I Agility

Position Overview

The Engineering Build Supervisor is responsible for the day-to-day supervision and execution of work within GTI's engineering build, prototype, First-of-Kind (FOK), and pre-production fabrication environment. Reporting to the Engineering Build Manager, this position directly supervises welders, fabricators, fitters, assemblers, and other skilled trades personnel assigned to engineering build activities to ensure build safety, accuracy, and efficiency.

This is a hands-on shop-floor leadership role. The Engineering Build Supervisor maintains close visibility to active work, translates build priorities into daily assignments, enforces safety and workmanship standards, and immediately escalates design, documentation, material, tooling, or configuration problems.

Key Responsibilities Daily Build Execution
  • Supervise daily execution of prototype, FOK, engineering validation, and other designated pre-production builds
  • Translate priorities established by the Engineering Build Manager into clear daily work assignments and sequence activities across welders, fabricators, fitters, assemblers, and other assigned personnel
  • Monitor progress throughout the shift and adjust labor assignments to address changing priorities, constraints, and build conditions
  • Ensure employees understand the work scope, current engineering requirements, sequence, and acceptance criteria before beginning work
  • Maintain accurate visibility to work completed, work in process, constraints, rework, and outstanding issues and to schedule or execution risks promptly
Welding & Fabrication Supervision
  • Provide practical oversight of welding, fitting, fabrication, metalworking, assembly, and related build activities
  • Ensure fabrication work is performed in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, weld requirements, tolerances, and procedures
  • Verify personnel use the correct materials, components, consumables, tooling, fixtures, and equipment
  • Monitor fit-up, alignment, dimensional condition, weld preparation, workmanship, distortion, and assembly quality
  • Identify conditions that may create excessive rework, poor fit, unsafe work, or quality defects and engage the appropriate technical owner
  • Ensure personnel do not independently alter geometry, dimensions, materials, weld requirements, or design intent without engineering approval
Drawing Compliance & Issue Escalation
  • Ensure build personnel work from the latest approved drawings, redlines, specifications, BOM information, and authorized instructions
  • Review drawings and build documentation with employees to clarify execution requirements and verify understanding
  • Stop work and elevate when drawings, dimensions, specifications, materials, or instructions are unclear, conflicting, incomplete, or impractical
  • Identify fabrication, fit-up, assembly, material, tooling, and documentation problems as they occur and ensure they are communicated to the Engineering Build Manager
  • Prevent undocumented make-it-fit corrections, unauthorized modifications, obsolete documentation, and permanent workarounds
Safety, Quality & Shop Discipline
  • Maintain direct accountability for safe work practices within the engineering build area and stop unsafe work immediately
  • Enforce applicable PPE, hot-work, LOTO, machine guarding, lifting, material-handling, housekeeping, and other safety requirements
  • Ensure work meets GTI workmanship and quality expectations and coordinate required inspections and hold points with Quality
  • Identify nonconforming work promptly and prevent continuation when additional work could compound the issue
  • Support approved containment, rework, repair, and corrective-action activities and verify work is executed to disposition
  • Maintain a clean, organized, controlled, and professional engineering build environment that supports safe and efficient execution
Workforce Leadership & Development
  • Provide direct frontline leadership to skilled trades personnel assigned to the engineering build area,…
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