Fabrication Supervisor

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Alliance Machine Systems International, LLC is a privately held company with over 35 years of history dedicated to providing corrugated box manufacturing machines and services to the changing industry. As the paperboard packaging industry's premier global supplier of productivity-enhancing process machinery and systems, we supply innovative designs, intelligent automation, and optimized workflow, coupled with highly responsive parts and service support. Our United States and Europe based engineering, manufacturing, sales and service operations provide a global support system covering the full product portfolio of Alliance, Serco, TEI, ASC, Pallmac, J&L and Tanabe machines.

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

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Alliance Throughout Barry-Wehmiller, we hold ourselves to a unique measure of success: by the way we touch the lives of people. It’s that vision that drives us in creating world-class experiences and solutions for our customers and unites us around our common goal—to use the power of our business to build a better world.

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THIS IS AN ONSITE ROLE LOCATED IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON. The Fabrication Supervisor provides visible, hands-on leadership for fabrication and machining operations across multiple shifts. This role is accountable for people leadership aligned with Truly Human Leadership Principles, daily production execution, labor and equipment coordination, and reliable flow through saw, machining, welding, and related processes. The supervisor leads through frontline leads, develops team capability, resolves constraints, and works closely with Planning, Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and downstream production teams.

• Lead People Set clear expectations, coach 3-4 leads, develop employees, and create consistent accountability across shifts.
• Execute Production Align labor, material, equipment, and priorities to meet the fabrication and machining schedule.
• Improve Flow Identify constraints, reduce downtime and delays, and strengthen handoffs to internal customers.

Fabrication and Machining Operations

Direct daily work across saw, machining, welding, and related fabrication processes, using leads to translate schedule priorities into clear floor-level assignments.

Coordinate labor, materials, tooling, equipment, and support resources to achieve production requirements and respond to changing priorities.

Monitor schedule attainment, productivity, work-in-process, labor performance, downtime, and operational constraints; take timely recovery action when performance is at risk.

Maintain effective shift handoffs, tiered communication, visual controls, and escalation routines so priorities and barriers are understood across all shifts.

Ensure production and labor reporting is accurate, current, and useful for daily decision-making.

Partner with Planning, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Maintenance, Supply Chain, and downstream operations to resolve technical, material, equipment,…