Production Team Leader

Position Summary:

Provides direction and leadership of assigned crew members. Performs standard work in a shop environment ensuring efficient, safe and high-quality production while meeting or exceeding customer expectations.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for safety, quality, and production of assigned crew members.
• Lead and direct shop team members to deliver daily production goals.
• Provide information on daily production to manage production tracking.
• Communicate status of orders to shop leadership.

• Read, interpret and follow basic blueprints, diagrams, engineering drawings, specifications, bills of materials, and other written instructions or procedures to accurately create equipment and products. 

• Interpret job orders and drawings as needed for area of assignment.
• Prepare layout and fabrication of piping spools from production drawings.
• Inspect and document product compliance.
• Review produced work for correctness and perform quality control inspections.
• Train new employees.
• Maintain accurate time records.
• Work closely with fabrication team members in a collaborative team environment.
• Arrange maintenance of relevant shop production equipment.

• Identify product defects and effectively communicate defects to shop leadership. 
• Working with overheard cranes, jib cranes, and forklifts. 
• Plan and delegate prioritized work flow assignments as directed by shop superintendent. 

• Handle materials.

• Maintain a safe, clean, and orderly shop floor. 
• Enforce all safety rules and regulations such as PPE compliance and 5S procedures 

• Responsible for compliance with all safety processes and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Accountability:

• Comply with all company policies and procedures.
• All employees are accountable for safety and health and are empowered to stop work if an unsafe condition is present. Employees should immediately notify their supervisor so that the hazard may be corrected.

Physical Requirements:

• Work outside, inside, and in dusty, noisy and hazardous areas.
• Work in high places, tight places, confined spaces and/or other adverse locations.
• Climb, balance, squat, kneel and crouch.
• Work in all types of weather.
• Must have working knowledge of all trade materials and tools.
• Ability to lift, move and/or carry 50 lbs.

Qualifications:

Career Level: Production Team Leader 1

• 1-3 years of relevant experience.
• Familiar with shop production environment.
• Requires judgment or initiative in resolving issues and making recommendations.
• Manages daily activities of 3-8 member crew.
• Creates and manages schedules for crew.

Career Level: Production Team Leader 2

• 4-6 years of relevant experience.
• Trade specific training, experience and knowledge preferred.
• Good understanding of shop production environment.
• Knowledge of trade materials and tools.
• Requires judgment or initiative in resolving issues and making recommendations.
• Manages daily activities of 3-8 member crew.
• Creates and manages schedules for crew.

Career Level: Production Team Leader 3

• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong trade specific training, experience and knowledge preferred.
• Strong specialist in shop production environment.
• Knowledge of trade materials and tools.
• Requires judgment or initiative in resolving issues and making recommendations.
• Manages daily activities of 3-8 member crew.
• Creates and manages schedules for crew.