What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Person- Fabrication position at Taco Family of Companies?
As a family-owned and operated company, we feel a special obligation to the employees who comprise our Taco family. We are committed to offering employees access to the tools necessary to live long and productive lives. We strive to instill in all of our employees:
- A positive mental attitude that helps us to be a leader in the industry
- A commitment to building strong relationships, both inside and outside the organization
- A desire to learn, grow, and contribute to moving our strategy forward
- A need to create and to innovate
Employment Type: Regular Full-Time
Shift: 1st Shift
Work Status: On-site
Position Summary:
The Team Lead, Welding and Fabrication TFR (Taco Fall River) coordinates employees on both high volume and custom tank production lines and schedules and assigns work as required. They train new hires throughout the departments and coordinate all programming and modifications for robotic welding cells. They schedule people, machinery, and sub assembly cells to ensure continuous throughput and high labor efficiencies and prioritize special parts, instructing operators on how to build them. The Team Lead, Welding and Fabrication updates the supervisor on output from the production lines and reviews data in daily production meetings, as well as interacts with buying/planning staff to minimize disruptions. They are subject matter experts on complex welding and fabrication and also provide backup for the supervisor as needed.
Measures of success:
- Achieve the key performance indicator (KPI) of on-time deliveries
- Ensure that earned labor hours align with expected targets
- Timely and successful training and evaluation of a variety of employees
- Ensures continuous supply of subassemblies
- Maintains output above 45 units a day on the high-volume line.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Ensures welders are performing welding techniques properly and within ASME guidelines
- Troubleshoots complex welding and fabrication and provides guidance to employees for those tasks
- Prioritizes schedules to ensure maximum output
- Uses various types of welding equipment and a variety of common hand and power tools
- Guides employees in performing fit up and welding on most complex tanks
- Programs welding robots, developing programs and methodologies for program structure
- Troubleshoots welding program issues as needed and interacts directly with robot manufacturers to solve complex mechanical and program problems
- Coordinates subassembly cells to produce volume needed to minimize work interruptions
- Reviews schedules with supervisor and production staff
- Provides manufacturing engineering with critical dimension data for specialty products
- Reviews Epicor Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) jobs for completion
- Coaches employees on standard and complex welding techniques and how to utilize the ERP system
- Coordinates with other shifts to ensure proper material flow
- Assigns and directs work based on needs of the shift
- Provides advanced instruction and training to welding and fabrication employees
- Provides feedback to management on an individual's progress, abilities and aptitude
- Serves as a subject matter expert within fabrication, resolving complex issues with weldments and fabrication techniques
- Ensures their own safety and that of team members
- Maintains work area in a neat and organized manner to 5S standards
- Coordinates all first shift manufacturing activities in the tank departments in absence of supervisor
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must be a certified welder and be able to pass ASME welding test
- Must have or be able to attain certificate in advanced robotic programming within first 12-18 months within role
- 10 years of welding/fitting experience in a heavy steel fabrication environment
- 5 years of experience with operating or programming welding robots
- Ability to use Microsoft Office (Outlook, Teams, Word)
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team in a heavy manufacturing environment
- Capability to mentor and train others and to share knowledge
- Familiar with heavy steel fabrication techniques, including manual and CNC fabrication equipment
- Advanced proficiency in reading, interpreting and explaining welding procedures
- Ability to troubleshoot welding parameter issues
- Ability to interpret engineering documentation
- Able to keep team members well informed and to draw on other's expertise when required
- Ability to professionally communicate and work cooperatively with others
- Ability to manage time effectively to meet strict time deadlines and production volumes
- Judgment to comply with instructions, prescribed routines, methods, and practices
- Attention to detail and ability to handle multiple priorities
- Willingness to learn and to train others
Preferred:
- Up to 2 years of formal post-high school specialized trade, technical school or college
Work Environment
This position works primarily in a production floor environment where large equipment and noise are prevalent. Safety gear is required in these areas.
This position reports into the site every day
This position has no direct reports.
Benefits
With nearly 1,000 people working at Taco worldwide, each with their own story, you will discover a sense of community and diverse, intelligent colleagues who help us innovate, create and explore.
Taco employees benefit from a company that:
- Provides competitive salaries and benefits
- Offers tuition reimbursement, career development, and on-site training programs in our learning center
- Believes in sharing profits with its employees
- Is mindful about family, health and well-being
- Fosters conditions that allow people and communities to reach their full potential
- Embraces and celebrates diversity
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