Fabrication Lead - Night Shift

About Us: Panelmatic, Inc. was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, OH to serve manufacturing industries with the design and build of custom electrical, instrument, and pneumatic control panels. Our business has sufficiently grown over the years to support expansion for our clients. We have produced control packages for many of America's top corporations in the chemical, environmental, food, pulp and paper, rubber, petroleum, pharmaceutical, glass, metals, and utilities industries.

We also deliver equipment for use worldwide. Our rigorous methodology assures compliance with domestic and international standards. We can meet the needs of our diverse clientele from start to finish through sales, design, fabrication, testing, and delivery.

Description Panelmatic Inc. is seeking a dedicated and skilled Fabrication Lead
. This role is a hands-on leadership position, responsible for overseeing daily operations, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency while also actively participating in fabrication tasks. They combine the responsibilities of skilled fabricators with leadership duties, including supervising a team of fabricators and assisting supervisors with projects.

Panelmatic Inc. is seeking a dedicated and skilled Fabrication Lead
. The Fabrication Lead is a hands-on leadership role, responsible for overseeing daily operations, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency while also actively participating in fabrication tasks. They combine the responsibilities of skilled fabricators with leadership duties, including supervising a team of fabricators and assisting supervisors with projects.

• Overseeing and mentoring fabricators, leading production floor work, communicating instructions, and ensuring adherence to safety, production, and quality standards.
• Verifying material availability, creating material lists, ensuring tools are in working condition, reporting tool issues, tracking consumables usage, and reporting weekly to the supervisor.
• Performing complex welds, conducting quality inspections, overseeing fabrication projects, providing technical expertise, and assisting supervisors with projects.
• Inspecting welds for quality and conformance and identifying and implementing corrective actions for fabrication issues.
• Maintaining a clean work environment and collaborating with other departments
• Selects appropriate material for each job based on the desired or necessary strength.
• MIG welds mild and stainless steel.
• Cuts, bends, and shapes sheet metal to required dimensions.
• Measures, cuts, and welds pieces together according to specifications, blueprints, or directions.
• Hammers, chips, and grinds workpiece to cut, bend, and straighten metal to meet specifications.
• Verifies conformance of workpiece to specifications, using square, ruler, and measuring tape.
• Connects pieces or secures seams by riveting, rolling, soldering, or using steel screws.
• Performs assigned work on assembly such as punching holes for screws or bending gutters.
• Sets up and operates fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, and drill presses.
• Coordinates required shutdowns and startups of equipment with other departments after sheet metal installation.
• Develops and maintains records for projects and repairs
• Performs other related duties as assigned

• Proficiency in various welding techniques (MIG, TIG, Stick) required
• Ability to read blueprints, welding symbols, and technical drawings required
• Strong knowledge of welding safety protocols and regulations required
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills required
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple tasks, and maintain attention to detail and quality required
• Two plus years of experience welding in a manufacturing or industrial setting required
• Two plus years of experience in forklift operating required
• Two plus years of experience in the use basic tools (squares, clamps, fillet gauge, angle grinder, etc.) required
• Two plus years of experience in shear, brake press, turret punch, CNC laser, ironworker, band saw, welding machine, cutting torch, plasma cutter, grinder, overhead crane, ratchet straps, and other hand tools…