Superintendent - Shop

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary

The Fabrication Shop Superintendent at Mid-State Industrial is responsible for leading daily operations within a custom steel fabrication environment. This role ensures safe, efficient, and high-quality production of custom metal products by managing personnel, coordinating job flow, and aligning shop activities with project schedules and customer specifications. You will be responsible for supervising shop leads and crews of welders, fitters, and mechanics as well as performing hands on work, as needed.

Essential Duties

• Supervise, coordinate, and/or schedule the activities of shop employees.
• Oversee all fabrication activities including structural steel fabrication, welding, cutting, forming, and assembly.
• Read specifications, such as blueprints, to determine maintenance requirements or to plan procedures.
• Inspect work progress and shop areas to verify safety and ensure that specifications are met.
• Coordinate with other departments such as; QA/QC, engineering and project teams.
• Assign work to employees, based on material or worker requirements of specific jobs.
• Estimate material or worker requirements to complete jobs.
• Confer with managerial or technical personnel, other departments, or contractors to resolve problems or to coordinate activities.
• Analyze worker or production problems and recommend solutions, such as improving production methods or implementing motivational plans.
• Train workers on fabrication methods, operation of tools/equipment, safety procedures, and/or company policies.
• Monitor and track costs and expenses to ensure adherence to budget guidelines.
• Record information such as personnel, production, or operational data on specified forms or reports.
• Arrange for repairs of equipment or machinery.
• Suggest or initiate personnel actions, such as promotions, transfers, or hires.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills & Qualifications

• Employee must be capable of working long hours
• 5-10 years of Fabrication experience
• 3 years of supervisory experience
• Strong blueprint reading and welding knowledge.
• Must be dependable and operate with a high-level of integrity.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment.
• Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical.
• Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
• Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Attention to Detail - Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Cooperation - Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
• Persistence - Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
• Self-Control - Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
• Stress Tolerance - Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
• Adaptability/Flexibility - Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
• Analytical Thinking - Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
• Concern for Others - Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
• Independence - Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
• Social Orientation - Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
• Innovation - Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems

Other Information

• This is an exempt position.
• This position reports to the Division Manager - Shop.
• This position typically has 12+ direct reports.
• Mid-State is proud to offer benefits to all its full-time employees. Benefits available include; Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance, Life and AD&D Insurance, Disability Insurance, 401(k), Vacation, Holiday pay, and an Employee Assistance Program.

Physical Requirements / Working Environment

• Location is 1171 Grill Rd Van Wert, Ohio 45891.
• This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work vary (Monday – Sunday) and overtime is frequently required.
• Working environment is in an industrial shop; non-climate controlled and if often times hot / humid. Frequent exposure to moving equipment, machines and shop tools, and other safety-sensitive hazards / risks. Must always be alert and able to safely perform the essential duties of the job without risking harm to oneself or others.

Other physical requirements include;

• Manual Dexterity — The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp objects.
• Finger Dexterity — The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• Reaction Time — The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
• Hearing Sensitivity — The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
• Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.
• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Problem Sensitivity -The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
• Depth Perception — The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
• Extent Flexibility — The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Static Strength — The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects up to 10 pounds.
• Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Auditory Attention — The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
• Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Rate Control -The ability to time movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object/scene.
• Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
• Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

• Mid-State maintains a firm commitment to providing a safe and healthy work environment for its employees and quality services to its clients. Mid-State is a drug-free workplace. Must be able to pass a post-offer / pre-placement drug screen and job-related employment physicals. Must also submit to a post-offer / pre-employment background check.

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

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