Weld Shop 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.

This role will be instrumental in supporting the launch and ongoing success of our new location in Flower Mound, TX.

Flower Mound, TX

Exempt

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

The Weld Shop Supervisor owns the operating results of the welding department, including safety, quality, delivery, productivity, labor effectiveness, employee capability, standard work, ERP discipline, and continuous improvement. This role leads department execution by setting priorities, aligning labor 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 welding operation that supports current production needs and future business growth.

This position reports directly to the Plant General Manager.

• Owns welding department performance for safety, quality, delivery, productivity, labor effectiveness, cost control, and employee capability.
• Leads Welder I, Welder II, and Welder 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, equipment, materials, priorities, and constraints to meet production commitments.
• Verifies work requirements by reviewing drawings, work orders, travelers, specifications, welding requirements, quality standards, and delivery expectations before and during execution.
• Owns safe execution of welding work by ensuring compliance with PPE, equipment authorization, safety practices, documented procedures, and required inspections.
• Owns weld quality and department conformance through first-piece checks, in-process inspections, quality reviews, handoff verification, and corrective action on nonconformance, rework, scrap, or recurring defects.
• Develops workforce capability through onboarding, training, cross-training, qualification tracking, skills matrix maintenance, development planning, and succession/bench-strength preparation.
• Supports full-cycle talent management for the welding 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, rework reduction, training completion, schedule performance, and continuous improvement.
• Uses ERP, production, labor, inventory, quality, 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, inventory transactions, work order execution, rework/scrap reporting, and employee transaction compliance.
• Identifies and corrects reporting errors, transaction gaps, routing issues, inventory discrepancies, process breakdowns, and data integrity concerns that affect operational reliability.
• Owns welding department SOPs, work instructions, standard work, training requirements, and operating procedures by ensuring they are implemented, followed, audited, updated, and improved as conditions change.
• Transforms tribal knowledge and undocumented practices into repeatable standards in partnership with Quality, Safety, Engineering, Operations, and plant leadership.
• Ensures welding equipment, tools, fixtures, and supporting…