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Our expertise lies in simplifying the complex and establishing long-standing relationships with our partners. We have a national presence but a local approach-every customer benefits from our capabilities and our care.\nAt Loenbro, we don't just offer jobs-we build careers grounded in integrity, teamwork, excellence, and purpose. Join a team where your expertise is valued, your growth is supported, and your work helps expand the reach of the critical infrastructure that powers communities across the nation.\nJob Summary\nThe Manager - Welding & Process Improvement is responsible for advancing welding technology, manufacturing processes, equipment standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across Loenbro's Fabrication & Manufacturing operations.\nReporting to the Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, this position plays a key role in executing Loenbro's strategic plan by establishing and implementing standardized best practices across the fabrication network while continuously improving safety, quality, productivity, throughput, cost, and manufacturing capability. The Manager will assess existing fabrication practices, welding and cutting technologies, equipment, facility workflows, and manufacturing methods; develop practical, fit-for-purpose standards; and provide technical leadership for capital planning and equipment selection.\nThe successful candidate will combine deep welding and fabrication knowledge with manufacturing, automation, operational-excellence, and continuous-improvement expertise. The objective is to position Loenbro as a best-in-class manufacturing platform capable of safely and efficiently producing high-quality fabricated and manufactured products at scale.\nEssential Job Responsibilities\nWelding & Fabrication Process Standardization\nAssess welding, cutting, fitting, assembly, material-handling, and fabrication practices across Loenbro facilities and identify opportunities for standardization and improvement.\nDevelop and implement company-wide fabrication and manufacturing best practices that are scalable across multiple facilities and appropriate for individual products, markets, and operating requirements.\nEstablish standardized processes, methods, equipment recommendations, workstation concepts, tooling, production practices, standard work, and technical guidance, defining what good looks like across the network.\nEnsure processes are fit for purpose and aligned with applicable codes, specifications, customer requirements, and quality programs, supporting a manufacturing culture centered on safety, quality, and continuous improvement.\nWelding Technology & Technical Leadership\nServe as a technical resource for welding processes and fabrication methodologies across Loenbro's manufacturing network.\nEvaluate processes and technologies based on material type, wall thickness, joint configuration, production volume, quality requirements, labor availability, and total cost.\nPartner with Quality and Welding Engineering regarding WPS/PQR requirements, welder qualifications, code compliance, inspection requirements, and weld quality.\nAnalyze weld productivity, repair rates, deposition efficiency, arc-on time, and rework to identify opportunities to reduce labor and non-value-added work, and evaluate emerging welding technologies for practical advantage.\nCutting, Preparation & Material Processing\nAssess and optimize cutting, beveling, coping, drilling, forming, preparation, and material-processing methods.\nEvaluate CNC plasma, oxy-fuel, laser cutting, saw systems, automated pipe profiling, robotic cutting, beveling systems, and other applicable fabrication equipment.\nDevelop standardized approaches that improve dimensional accuracy, throughput, fit-up quality, material utilization, and downstream welding productivity.\nIdentify opportunities to integrate digital fabrication data with cutting and manufacturing equipment to reduce manual inputs and errors.\nAutomation & Advanced Manufacturing\nIdentify and evaluate welding automation, robotics, mechanized welding, automated cutting, positioning, material-handling, and other advanced manufacturing opportunities.\nEvaluate robotic and collaborative welding, orbital welding, automated pipe welding, CNC systems, positioners, manipulators, turning rolls, and related technologies.\nDevelop business cases based on production demand, labor savings, throughput, quality, safety, utilization, payback, maintainability, and scalability, ensuring technology selections are supported by sustainable production demand.\nWork with Engineering & Productization to optimize products and assemblies for automated manufacturing and repeatable production.\nCapital Expenditure & Equipment Strategy\nLead or support technical evaluation of Fabrication & Manufacturing capital expenditures, developing standardized evaluation criteria covering capability, capacity, reliability, productivity, safety, quality, and total cost of ownership.\nPrepare capital business cases, recommendations, and a multi-year equipment roadmap aligned with strategic priorities and anticipated market demand.\nIdentify opportunities to standardize platforms across facilities to improve training, maintenance, spare parts, consumables, purchasing leverage, and workforce flexibility.\nParticipate in trials, vendor demonstrations, factory acceptance testing, commissioning, and performance validation, and develop productive relationships with leading equipment suppliers.\nManufacturing Process Improvement\nLead improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, productivity, throughput, cost, schedule, and capacity.\nAssess workflows from material receipt through cutting, preparation, fit-up, welding, inspection, coating, assembly, storage, and shipment, identifying bottlenecks, excessive movement, waiting, rework, and other waste.\nApply Lean manufacturing, 5S, value-stream mapping, standard work, visual management, and root-cause analysis where appropriate, recommending improvements to shop layout, production cells, and material flow.\nPartner with Operations to implement improvements, validate benefits, and sustain results.\nProductivity & Performance Measurement\nEstablish meaningful, standardized productivity metrics for welding and fabrication operations.\nTrack and analyze direct labor hours per unit, weld/diameter inches, arc-on time, deposition rates, repair and rejection rates, fit-up productivity, machine utilization, uptime, cycle time, rework, and scrap.\nBenchmark performance among facilities and against relevant industry practices, using operational data to prioritize improvement opportunities and validate results.\nShop Assessments & Manufacturing Excellence\nParticipate in formal facility assessments in support of the Manufacturing strategic plan and Tiger Team workstreams.\nEvaluate facilities against standards for welding, cutting, equipment, layout, material flow, productivity, automation, quality, safety, and manufacturing maturity.\nDevelop prioritized facility improvement roadmaps and facilitate adoption of proven internal best practices across the network.\nSupport decisions on where capabilities should be consolidated, expanded, automated, or strategically developed, and assist in defining future-state concepts for new or expanded facilities.\nEngineering & Productization Collaboration\nWork closely with the Director of Engineering & Productization to incorporate Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) principles into repeatable products and assemblies.\nProvide manufacturing input during development to improve manufacturability, reduce labor, simplify welding and assembly, and enable automation.\nStandardize materials, connections, joint configurations, components, and fabrication methods where beneficial.\nParticipate in design reviews, prototypes, pilot production, first-article builds, and production-readiness assessments, and help transition successful prototypes into scalable production processes.\nQuality, Safety & Compliance\nPartner with Quality and Safety leadership to ensure improvements maintain or enhance compliance with applicable codes, specifications, procedures, and customer requirements.\nPromote practices that reduce ergonomic exposure, manual handling, fumes, heat exposure, repetitive work, and other fabrication-related risks.\nEnsure equipment recommendations address guarding, ventilation, ergonomics, training, maintenance, and safe operation.\nParticipate in root-cause investigations involving significant welding, fabrication, equipment, or process failures, and support continuous reduction of defects, repairs, rework, and quality escapes.\nTraining & Workforce Development\nIdentify training needs associated with standardized processes, new equipment, automation, and manufacturing technologies.\nPartner with Operations, Quality, Safety, and Training personnel to develop practical training programs and operator competency expectations.\nDevelop welding and fabrication subject-matter experts and facilitate knowledge sharing among facilities.\nKey Performance Indicators\nFabrication labor productivity and throughput improvement.\nReduction in weld repair/rejection rates, rework, and cost per unit.\nImprovement in arc-on time, deposition efficiency, equipment utilization, and uptime.\nReduction in production cycle time and improvement in material flow.\nPercentage of facilities operating to standardized manufacturing practices.\nCapital-project ROI and achievement of planned benefits.\nAutomation utilization and verified productivity improvement.\nNumber of standardized processes deployed across multiple facilities.\nSuccessful implementation of new technologies and equipment.\nImprovement in manufacturing safety and ergonomic exposure.\nKey Qualifications\n8+ years of progressive experience in welding, fabrication, manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, process improvement, or related industrial operations.\nExtensive practical knowledge of industrial welding and fabrication processes, equipment, cutting systems, material preparation, fit-up, positioning, and workflow.\nExperience evaluating or implementing manufacturing equipment and capital projects.\nDemonstrated success improving fabrication productivity, quality, throughput, or manufacturing processes.\nAbility to interpret engineering and fabrication drawings, welding symbols, specifications, and applicable requirements.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving capability with the ability to turn shop-floor observations and production data into practical improvements.\nAbility to collaborate effectively with craft personnel, supervision, engineering, quality, safety, vendors, and executive leadership.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills and willingness to travel regularly among Loenbro facilities.\nBachelor's degree in Welding Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Welding Technology, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent extensive industry experience considered.\nCertified Welding Inspector (CWI), Certified Welding Engineer (CWEng), or other relevant AWS credential preferred.\nLean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or similar continuous-improvement certification preferred.\nExperience with robotic, mechanized, orbital, or automated pipe welding; CNC/laser/plasma cutting; automated material handling; or other advanced manufacturing technologies 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