Shop Foreman

Company: EFM Recruiting
Location: Anaheim
Posted on: May 9, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description Our client, an event fabrication company, is searching for a Shop Foreman. The Shop Foreman leads and directs the fabrication team in order to fabricate high quality assets on time and within budget, while coordinating and communicating with the Director of Design & Fabrication. The Shop Foreman oversees and manages workflow processes to ensure production is maximized at its lowest cost, highest quality while delivering within required project timelines. Lead and coordinate the work activities of the fabrication team. Review processing schedules or production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, or duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints. Direct or coordinate production output activities. Develop or implement production tracking or quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, or other operational reports, to detect production problems. Review operations and confer with technical or administrative staff to resolve production or processing problems. Assist employees in resolving personnel grievances and escalate to Human Resources when needed. Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw products or directing testing during processing, to ensure finished products are of prescribed quality. Coordinate inventory and cost control programs. Partner with the Director of Design & Fabrication to coordinate or recommend procedures for facility or equipment maintenance or modification, including the replacement of machines. Review plans and confer with research or support staff to develop new products or processes. Maintain current knowledge of the quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, or statistical studies. As a Shop Foreman, the main priority is safety. Familiarity with OSHA safety standards is a must-have, and the candidate should be comfortable hosting weekly meetings and touch on safety often, including proper knowledge of procedures, practices and employment of safety measures for the shop and personnel, respectively. Full understanding of PPE, enforcement of its use and re-ordering is essential. Lock-out/Tag-out, equipment use and training is incredibly important as well, as is the knowledge for First Aid, emergency and crisis procedures. Moving further into the job, the Shop Foreman should have a basic-to-advanced understanding of literally every tool and machine on the shop floor to be able to properly assess, purchase, order, use, maintain, repair, mitigate risk or otherwise ---manage--- these assets in the shop environment to be certain the shop is safe, efficient, effective and tools are being used and taken care-of properly. Scheduling, time and project management all factor into a job performed every minute by the Shop Foreman as he or she designs the Shop Flow with every need factored. This position is in the management seat of determining what hours, time and personnel is needed to fabricate and finish jobs, ship them, install them, then assess needs beyond installation by managing its human resources to assign proper hours and staff to each job. This includes the achievement of project deadlines including, but not limited to: Project based deadlines, process deadlines, truck-pack deadlines, load-in windows, load-out windows and all other time-managed deadlines that pertain to fabrication. HR is a necessary component to EVERY manager in California, and you will be required to lead by example of proper decorum, behavior, skill and respect while understanding the complex needs of our Team. From team-building and unity to problem-solving, discipline and dismissal, our expectation is that this Manager joins our team leading our entire staff by example to create incredible things with an attitude that commands respect and attention. Oversee and manage the weekly production schedule. Coordinate with Director of Design & Fabrication to ensure inventory is stocked for production. Coordinate with the Purchasing team to ensure materials are ordered and received in time for scheduled production. Meets with the Fabrication team daily to review quality, production capacity, and production costs. Responsible for insuring that all shop employees follow documented instructions given in the build doc in order to control product quality throughout the fabrication process. Review shop drawings before approving to move into production. Provide training and education to staff on new equipment, new systems and protocols to improve production quality. Review and approve timesheets and timecards. Ensure housekeeping is ongoing and maintain a clean, organized and safe workplace. Oversee fabrication shop asset deliveries with the Operations team. Provide guidance and leadership to all employees to ensure effective and efficient flow of work, and ensure all employees recognize their fundamental role in the production process. Provide internal QA/QC on all outgoing projects. Assist with value engineering with alternative materials and processes. Partner with the Director of Design & Fabrication to direct facility maintenance or repair activities. TOOLS: Forklifts (Lift trucks, Forklifts), Bar code reader equipment (Barcode scanners), Box sealing tape dispensers (Tape guns), Claw hammer, Desktop computers, Dollies, Glue guns, Hand trucks or accessories, Hoists (Power hoists), Jacks (Hydraulic jacks), Lifting hooks (Hoisting hooks), Pallet trucks (Pallet jacks), Planes (Hand planes), Power saws, Saws (Hand saws), Scaffolding, Slings (Material-hoisting slings), Track cranes (Overhead cranes), Utility knives, Winches (Hydraulic winches), Wrapping machinery QUALIFICATIONS: 8 Years of related experience 8 Years of production and fabrication experience HS Diploma/GED required Company Description Hi I---m Erin Monahan - Founder, Recruiter, and jane-of-all-trades at EFM Recruiting. Through EFM Recruiting, I partner with employers, both large and small, to recruit and place high-performing event and marketing professionals. By partnering with me, companies have exclusive access to a pipeline of industry-leading experiential, event, tradeshow, fabrication, marketing, and design specialists. My services include both temporary (contract) and permanent (direct hire) placements. Having worked in talent acquisition for over a decade, I use industry best practices to seamlessly guide the entire recruitment lifecycle, from requirement gathering through onboarding.

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