Welding & Fabrication Lead

About Re:Build Manufacturing
Re:Build Manufacturing, LLC (Re:Build) is a rapidly growing family of industrial businesses combining enabling technologies, operational superiority, and strategic M&A to build America's next generation industrial company. At Re:Build we deploy deep expertise in operations management and technology to supercharge performance of our subsidiaries by implementing core technologies across industrial platforms in diverse growth markets. Our goal is to help revitalize the U.S. manufacturing base over the coming decades, creating substantial opportunities for our employees and the communities where we operate.
We leverage deep professional expertise and a candid, principled operating culture to drive differentiated outcomes for our customers, our employees, our communities and our investors. Ours is a fast-paced environment where individuals can stretch and be challenged with a wide variety of opportunities and projects. We empower and support our employees to pursue their fullest potential and provide meaningful avenues for personal and professional growth.
Who we are looking for
You will coordinate employees on both high volume and custom production lines and schedules and assigns work as required. You will train new hires throughout the departments and coordinate all programming and modifications for robotic welding cells. You will 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. You will provide updates to the supervisor on output from production reviews data in daily production meetings, as well as interacts with buying/planning staff to minimize disruptions. You are a subject matter authority on complex welding and fabrication and also provide backup for the supervisor as needed.
What you get to do

• 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 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) jobs for completion
• Coaches employees on standard and complex welding techniques and how to use 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 competence
• 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 manufacturing activities in their departments in absence of supervisor

What you bring to the Team
Required:

• Must be a certified welder and be able to pass ASME welding test
• 10+ years of welding/fitting experience in a manufacturing fabrication environment
• Familiar with heavy steel fabrication techniques, including manual and CNC fabrication equipment
• Proven ability to lead a team in a heavy manufacturing environment
• Advanced proficiency in reading, interpreting and explaining welding procedures
• Ability to troubleshoot welding parameter issues
• Ability to interpret engineering documentation
• Capability to mentor and train others and to share knowledge
• High school diploma or equivalent experience
• Ability to use Microsoft Office (Outlook, Teams, Word)
• 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 handle time effectively to meet critical benchmarks and production volumes
• Judgment to follow instructions, prescribed routines, methods, and practices
• Attention to detail and ability to handle multiple priorities

Preferred:

• Up to 2 years of formal post-high school specialized trade, technical school or college
• Have or be able to attain certificate in advanced robotic programming within first 12-18 months within role
• Demonstrated ability operating or programming welding robots

The BIG payoff
We are a company who is going to make a difference in the industries and the communities in which we choose to operate.
Every employee of Re:Build will share ownership in the company and will share in the financial rewards of the success we achieve together, at all levels of the company!
We want to work with people that reflect the communities in which we operate
Re:Build Manufacturing is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences. Or for any other reason.
Re:Build is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at or you may call us at 617.909.6275.