Aluminum Welding Supervisor

POSITION SUMMARY Oversees all functions pertaining to the Aluminum Welding department. The Aluminum Welding Supervisor ensures the manufacturing process remains smooth and efficient by organizing workflows and monitoring staff. Plans, directs, or coordinates the work activities and resources in the welding department necessary for new construction and repairs in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications.

Supervises (including hiring, orienting, training, evaluating, and discharging) the aluminum welders to ensure they receive the training and support required for optimal performance. Maintains up-to-date supervision records on each employee. Completes all staff evaluations and any required staff disciplinary actions as requested and on time. Ensures that the selection of employees is administered without regard to race, religion, color, veteran’s status, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, or non-job-related disability and consistent with Affirmative Action objectives and EEO laws.

Responsible for ensuring excellent customer service and performance by subordinate staff.

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are as follows: inspects fit ups and tank shells to ensure they are meeting standards 100% of the time; ensures staffing levels are adequate to meet the deadlines; and ensures that the production schedule for the welding team meets or exceeds the applicable deadlines 100% of the time; follows up with team members to ensure that they have proper training and tools to complete their jobs;

completes all training assigned on time 100% of the time; and ensures that team has completed their training 95% of the time.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Reasonable Accommodations Statement To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s)
Directs and coordinate the aluminum welding department of St. Johns Ship Building's projects.

Meets or exceeds the production deadlines for the aluminum welding department.

Ensures that the aluminum welding department budget is meets or exceeds goals.

Monitors the production schedule, prioritizes work and adjusts staffing and production to assure deadlines are met Notifies the Production Manager when it is necessary to outsource work.

Coordinates the flow of raw materials to assure continuous production.

Requisition s the purchase of supplies and equipment as needed.

Recommends measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, and quality of product.

Coordinates maintenance on welding and related equipment as needed.

Schedules employees in his/her area of responsibility, approves time off and ensures proper staffing.

Inspect Fit-up and tank shells

Coordinates production with 2nd Shift and Weekend Supervisors Operate automated welding equipment

Layout and plasma cutWeld airtight, watertight, fuel tight

Able to read blueprints and weld schedules

Work with inspection authorities as well as in house QCOperate safety equipment and use safe work habits.

Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.

Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.

Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.

Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.

Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.

Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.

Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.

Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.

Lie out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.

Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.

Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints,…