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This role is responsible for ensuring welding activities are performed in accordance with approved welding procedures, quality requirements, and established workmanship standards.\nThe Welding Supervisor maintains a strong and visible shop-floor presence, combining hands-on leadership and welding expertise with effective planning, coordination, and problem-solving to drive team performance and maintain production flow. This position plays a key role in aligning people, processes, and daily priorities while collaborating across teams to resolve challenges and support production schedules and customer commitments.\nSuccess in this role requires strong leadership, professional communication, sound decision-making, and practical welding and fabrication knowledge. 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provide feedback to PSS Leadership regarding staffing needs, team capabilities, and workforce considerations based on production demands and departmental needs.\n\nDevelop the technical capabilities of Welders through hands-on coaching and mentorship, reinforcing welding skills, workmanship standards, and adherence to approved welding procedures.\n\nProduction Execution:\nProvide active shop-floor leadership and technical support to Welders throughout daily production activities.\n\nOversee daily Welding operations to ensure production schedules, quality standards, productivity expectations, and operational targets are consistently achieved.\n\nPartner with the Production Manager to align Welding activities with short- and long-term production priorities, scheduling requirements, and operational objectives.\n\nEnsure materials, welding equipment, consumables, tools, and design drawings are available and ready ahead of scheduled production activities to minimize delays and downtime.\n\nAdjust labor and resources within the Welding department as needed to maintain productivity and respond to changing production demands.\n\nExecution and Problem Solving:\nProactively identify and respond to welding-related production issues, workflow disruptions, equipment concerns, and process inefficiencies affecting Welding performance and production flow.\n\nTake timely action to resolve issues within the Welding Supervisor’s area of responsibility and communicate or escalate matters requiring cross-functional support to the appropriate teams.\n\nWelding Quality and Technical Compliance:\nEnsure Welders perform work in accordance with approved welding procedures, engineering drawings, welding symbols, specifications, and established workmanship standards.\n\nProvide technical guidance and support to Welders, addressing welding and workmanship concerns as they arise and reinforcing proper welding methods and approved procedures.\n\nPartner with CWI and Quality teams to support required inspections, address weld quality concerns and non-conformances, and implement corrective actions in a timely manner to minimize disruptions to production flow.\n\nSafety:\nEnforce compliance with company safety procedures and safe work practices across all Welding operations.\n\nEnsure Welders are properly trained on welding equipment, tools, material handling, procedures, personal protective equipment, and applicable safety protocols.\n\nMaintain accountability for housekeeping, work-area organization, and safe operation of welding and material-handling equipment.\n\nPartner with Safety and appropriate teams to address hazards, incidents, audit findings, and corrective actions within Welding operations.\n\nReporting and Performance Analysis:\nTrack and analyze Welding production performance, build times, and labor-hour data to identify trends and support production planning, scheduling, and workforce utilization.\n\nProvide the Production Manager with timely updates on Welding performance, production constraints, staffing needs, quality concerns, and other issues that may impact production commitments.\n\nCross-Functional Collaboration:\nServe as the primary point of contact for Welding-related production coordination, collaborating with Assembly, the Buffer Coordinator, Quality, Logistics, Engineering and Design, Project Management, Supply Chain, and other DTPS teams to support production execution and coordinate issues affecting the Welding department.\n\nProactively communicate design concerns, material issues, inspection constraints, and other cross-functional challenges that may impact Welding operations; engage the appropriate teams to support timely resolution and minimize disruptions to production flow.\n\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (Required):\n5+ years of experience in welding and fabrication within a manufacturing or industrial environment, including demonstrated experience in a leadership or supervisory capacity.\nStrong knowledge of 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