Welder - 6 month to 1 Year Contract

DEPARTMENT: PREFAB SUPPORT

REPORTS TO: PRODUCTION MANAGER

OVERVIEW:

The Welder Foreman is responsible for making sure the shop runs smoothly from day to day, by ensuring the team has everything they need to be successful.

General Responsibilities

• Works with a commitment to safety

• Upholds the core values of Encore Electric

• Acts as a professional and uses basic work ethics

o Comes to work on time every day with appropriate attire and tools

• Keeps work area clean

• Installs quality work in a neat and workmanship like manner

• Treats tools with respect

• Works and climbs on ladders, lifts, and elevated platforms

• Identifies electrical parts and components

• Perform strenuous physical work i.e., digging, kneeling, shoveling, lifting, pulling, pushing, climbing

• Keeps up with changing technology

• Wears tools at all required times

• Work in all weather conditions

Specific Responsibilities

• Responsible for assigning projects to the team

• Responsible for maintaining manpower needs

• Responsible for monitoring and ensuring deadlines are met

• Responsible for QA/QC

• Responsible for making sure safety policies are followed

• Responsible for New Hire Orientation

• Responsible for making sure the team has everything they need to be successful

• Responsible for facilitating any training the team needs

• Responsible for ensuring the shop is cleaned everyday

• Puts together estimates on fabrication

• Material take off and ordering

• Assist with projects when needed

Other duties as may be assigned

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge of:

• The construction process from scheduling to manpower to the labor, materials and equipment required for installation

• Constructability and the construction process

• Welding Codes – AWS, ASME and QA/QC procedures related to these codes

Skill in:

• Conceptual estimating (conceiving a project in your mind and all the components of that project)

• Acting as a self starter

• Working with little supervision

• Spatial orientation

• Visualizing the constructability of an estimate

• Identifying scope gaps in construction documents

• Customer management

• Listening

• Speaking intelligently

• Estimating resources needed to complete required tasks

• Adapting to new and changing requirements, environments, and/or information

• Managing people and processes

• Managing complex projects, breaking them down to their component levels

• Using communication software

• Effective written and oral communication sufficient to be able to elicit and communicate information and achieve understanding

• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, consultants, management, and employees

• Operating a computer

• Operate Microsoft office products

• Organizing work to accomplish tasks

• Reading and writing

• Prioritizing and reprioritizing to meet job needs

• Identifying and managing risk

• Problem solving

• Tracking numbers and bits of data relevant to the work assignment

• Innovative thinking to help move the shop into the future

Ability to:

• Retain and access critical information from memory

• Conceptualize and visualize the project for constructability means and methods

• Think on your feet

• Understand when to speak and when not to speak

• Be personally detached from ideas (no ego)

• See things from multiple perspectives

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

A functional physical is required to be completed and passed before work can be performed in all field positions. The physical requirements can often be completed repetitively and for extended periods of time. These requirements include:

• Driving

• Sitting

• Climbing

• Lifting, floor to chest (up to 50lbs)

• Lifting, floor to waist (up to 50lbs)

• Lifting, waist to overhead (up to 30lbs each arm)

• Carrying (up to 50lbs)

• Standing

• Stooping

• Vision acuity (near, far and without color deficiencies)

• Walking

• Kneeling

• Pushing (up to 100lbs)

• Pulling (up to 100lbs)

REQUIREMENTS:

High School Diploma or GED Required. Experience in general welding codes and the ability to mentor welders to pass certification tests is strongly preferred. 

Benefits of this role:  

• Encore Electric provides excellent benefits for our employees, including: medical, dental, and vision plans, disability, and life insurance, employee-matched 401(k), paid time off (PTO), an employee assistance program that includes counseling, legal, and financial advice.
• Encore also provides a generous employee referral program, and access to technical, safety, personal finance, and leadership training through Encore University, Encore’s in house training program.

Applications will close on November 1, 2026 or once role has been filled. 

For information regarding this position, please contact recruiting@encoreelectric.com 

To request an accommodation during the application process, please contact HR@EncoreElectric.com. 

Encore Electric is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.