Steel Fabrication Supervisor

Description

For over four decades, Big Top has manufactured and installed high-performance fabric structures in the United States, delivering American-made quality, innovation, and reliability. We don’t just build shelters - we engineer solutions that optimize operations, safeguard assets, and provide a competitive edge for companies worldwide. With the support and financial backing of Altamont Capital Partners, we are in an exciting phase of growth, expansion, and innovation.

Location:

Flower Mound, TX

FLSA Classification:
Exempt

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Directly supervises all Steel Fabricator I, Steel Fabricator II, and Steel Fabricator III employees in the steel fabrication department. Responsibilities include staffing input, interviewing, hiring recommendations, onboarding, training, coaching, work assignment, performance management, corrective action, employee development, succession planning, and accountability practices in partnership with Human Resources and plant leadership.

Job Summary:

The Steel Fabrication Supervisor owns the operating results of the steel fabrication department, including safety, quality, delivery, productivity, labor effectiveness, material utilization, employee capability, standard work, ERP discipline, equipment readiness, and continuous improvement. This role leads department execution by setting priorities, aligning labor, materials, equipment, and resources, removing constraints, developing team capability, enforcing standards, and using performance data to drive decisions.

The supervisor is accountable for building a reliable, disciplined, and scalable fabrication operation that supports current production needs and future business growth. This position reports directly to the Plant General Manager.

• Owns steel fabrication department performance for safety, quality, delivery, productivity, labor effectiveness, material utilization, cost control, and employee capability.
• Leads Steel Fabricator I, II, and III employees by setting clear expectations, assigning work, coaching performance, addressing gaps, and enforcing consistent accountability.
• Plans and adjusts daily department execution by aligning labor, employee skill, equipment, materials, drawings, work orders, priorities, and constraints to meet production commitments.
• Verifies work requirements by reviewing drawings, blueprints, work orders, travelers, specifications, tolerances, cut lists, bill-of-material requirements, quality standards, and delivery expectations before and during execution.
• Owns safe execution of cutting, fitting, forming, drilling, grinding, material handling, equipment operation, and related fabrication work through compliance with PPE, equipment authorization, safety practices, documented procedures, and required inspections.
• Owns fabrication quality and department conformance through first-piece checks, in-process inspections, dimensional verification, drawing conformance, handoff verification, and corrective action on nonconformance, rework, scrap, or recurring defects.
• Plans work sequencing and material flow to reduce handling, waiting, bottlenecks, excess work-in-process, and disruptions to downstream welding, finishing, and assembly operations.
• Identifies production risks and develops recovery plans that protect safety and quality while maintaining schedule, throughput, and customer commitments.
• Investigates nonconformance, schedule misses, excess scrap, material loss, and recurring process failures; leads root-cause analysis, corrective action, verification, and follow-up.
• Develops workforce capability through onboarding, training, cross-training, equipment authorization, qualification tracking, skills matrix maintenance, development planning, and succession and bench-strength preparation.
• Supports full-cycle talent management for the fabrication department, including workforce planning, recruiting support, interviewing, selection input, onboarding, performance reviews, corrective action, and retention in partnership with Human Resources.
• Creates, tracks, monitors, and improves department KPIs tied to safety, quality, delivery, productivity, labor efficiency, material utilization, scrap and rework reduction, training completion, schedule performance, equipment readiness, and continuous improvement.
• Uses ERP, production, labor, inventory, material, quality, equipment, and employee-capability data to identify risks, set priorities, allocate resources, solve constraints, and communicate department performance to plant leadership.
• Owns ERP discipline and data integrity for labor reporting, production reporting, routing compliance, traveler completion, material transactions, work order execution, rework and scrap reporting, and employee transaction compliance.
• Identifies and corrects reporting errors, transaction gaps, routing issues, inventory discrepancies, material shortages, process breakdowns, and data integrity concerns that affect operational reliability.
• Owns…