Pipefitter General Foreman - Austin Industrial; Deer Park, TX

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

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Supervisory Responsibilities - May directly or indirectly supervise workers in the Operations Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the Austin Industrial's policies & procedures and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

• Responds as necessary to support emergency and reactive orders
• Reviews call-outs with maintenance coordinator
• Reviews job scope and timing and assigns appropriate crafts to complete emergency and reactive orders during normal working hours
• Provides technical support or solicits support to conduct root cause failure analysis
• Provides technical support or solicits support to initiate the MOC process, if necessary
• Ensures that documentation is completed and that tools and material are returned or repaired
• Participates in the development of quality job plans by working with the planners and participates in the field walk through
• Participates in the development of the weekly maintenance work schedule
• Reviews and fills assigned job packages
• Provides resource availability count to scheduler
• Reviews schedule and provides constructive feedback, as necessary
• Ensures published schedule is executed as planned or ensures that necessary adjustments are made
• Prints work orders and assign craftsmen
• Makes resource changes based on input from scheduler (maintenance coordination and equipment availability)
• Leads tool box safety meetings, communicates schedule changes, as necessary, and reviews job scopes with craftsmen
• Communicates and makes necessary adjustments to complete or reschedules jobs that go beyond original scope of work
• Ensures the MOC process is initiated for job scope changes
• Works with material coordinator to get tools and materials for scope changes and to return non-stock parts, tools and equipment at the ne of the job
• Interacts with work permitting process as needed and ensures that all applicable safety procedures are followed
• Ensures that jobs are properly completed in a timely fashion
• Ensures unused stock parts are returned to the storeroom
• Ensures rental equipment is taken off rent and necessary changes to requisitions are made
• Ensures vendor operations are properly closed
• Ensures that repairable parts process is properly initiated
• Ensures proper job plan feedback is provided to the planners from craftsmen
• Participates in the identification and implementation of reliably driven improvements
• Ensures work group has a full understanding of the work flow process
• Ensures operations on an order which are complete are CNF’d
• Ensures all history/reliability data has been entered
• Promptly close (teco) orders upon job completion
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.