Sheet Metal Foreman Multi-Craft (8) Maryville, TN

Job Title: Multi-Craft Sheet Metal Foreman

Department: Operations

Reports To: General Superintendent/Project Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

Summary:

At Cherokee Millwright, we are a multi-craft company that focuses on the needs of our customers by providing multi-trades personnel to meet the customer’s unique job requests. Therefore, all field employees will be cross-trained in various trades such as millwrighting, pipefitting, welding, sheet metal, civil, etc. The focus of this position will be on plans, lays out, fabricates, assembles, installs, and repairs sheet metal parts, equipment, and products by performing the following duties. However, it will not be entirely set to this specific skillset.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Reads and interprets blueprints, sketches, or product specifications to determine sequence and methods of fabricating, assembling, and installing sheet metal products.
• Selects gauge and type of sheet metal such as galvanized iron, copper, steel, or aluminum, or nonmetallic material such as plastics or fiberglass, according to product specifications.
• Lays out and marks dimensions and reference lines on material to develop and trace patterns of product or parts or uses templates.
• Sets up and operates fabricating machines such as shears, brakes, presses, forming rolls, and routers, to cut, bend, block, and form, or straighten materials.
• Shapes metal material over anvil, block, or other form.
• Trims, files, grinds, deburrs, buffs, and smoothes surfaces.
• Welds, solders, bolts, rivets, screws, clips, caulks, or bonds component parts to assemble products.
• Welds metal parts together using both gas welding or brazing and any combination of arc welding processes.
• Performs related tasks such as thermal cutting and grinding.
• Installs assemblies in supportive framework according to blueprints.
• Inspects assemblies and installation for conformance to specifications.
• Reports accidents, near misses, and injuries to office supervision and actively cooperates with investigations.
• Compile operational and personnel data, such as time worked, jobs worked, inventory data, equipment used, repair and maintenance information.
• Reports to office supervision concerns with employees’ work-related issues and provides mentoring to employees to correct job-skill deficiencies.
• Conduct on the job training or arrange for worker training in safety or equipment use.
• Additional skills in other crafts will be necessary to meet our customers need and will be expected.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Oversees the daily work assignments of a crew of one to 12 employees. Reports out to office supervision the performance of the crew in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; addressing complaints/resolving problems and/or reporting those to office supervision for assistance.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and

Five years of experience with industrial and commercial applications.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Other Skills and Abilities:

Ability to operate the following equipment: Hydraulic press brake, hydraulic shear, Vulcan plasma cutting table, Pittsburg machine, TDC machine, Roller machine (three types), Hand break, Bead roller machine, Bead forming machine, Stomp shear, Magna bend, Pin spot machine, Drill press, Band saw, Plasma torch, Track torch, Mig and Tig Welders, Overhead Crane, and Forklift.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. Additionally, there may be occasional exposure to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. This would include duties and responsibilities working on, but not limited to millwright, pipefitting, welding, sheet metal, mechanical, and rigging projects.

We offer our employees a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package and are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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