Fabrication Lead

Shop Houston, Texas


Description

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Fabrication Lead directs the fabrication and assembly of pipe products.

 

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Leadership & Supervision:

    • Lead and manage a team of fabricators, welders, and production staff.
    • Assign tasks, monitor progress, and ensure production schedules are met.
    • Provide training, mentorship, and performance feedback to develop skills and abilities of team members.
    • Foster a positive and collaborative work environment.
     
    Production Management:
    • Oversee the fabrication of steel piping spools, ensuring adherence to quality standards and specifications.
    • Manage all Work Orders associated with fabrication.
    • Keep productivity trackers up to date in a timely manner.
    • Develop and implement efficient production processes and workflows.
    • Coordinate with other departments (e.g., quality control, warehouse, logistics) to ensure seamless operations.
    • Monitor inventory levels and coordinate with the Supervisor, Planners and Operations Project Managers (OPM) to maintain adequate supplies.
     
    Quality Control:
    • Ensure all fabricated products meet or exceed industry standards and customer requirements.
    • Conduct regular inspections and quality checks throughout the fabrication process.
    • Address and resolve any quality issues promptly and effectively.
    • Ensures all department employees complete required training.
     
    Safety & Compliance:
    • Responsible for safe work practices, maintaining a safe work environment and ensuring work crews follow safe practices and HSE programs, including Lock-out Tag-out.
    • Promote and enforce a safe working environment by adhering to all safety regulations and protocols.
    • Conduct daily safety meetings.
    • Conduct training sessions for the team on changes in safety regulations, work policies, and standards in conjunction with the Production Supervisor and EHS manager.
    • Ensure compliance with all relevant industry standards and legal requirements.
    • Ensure timeliness, safety and quality of material movement.
     
    Time Tracking & Job Order Management:
    • Ensure employees accurately log their hours to the correct job orders.
    • Monitor and verify time entries to ensure alignment with project timelines and budgets.
    • Address discrepancies and work with employees to correct any errors in time tracking.
     
    Continuous Improvement:
    • Identify areas for process improvement and implement changes to enhance productivity and efficiency.
    • Stay updated on industry trends and advancements in fabrication technology.
    • Collaborate with management to develop and achieve long-term production goals.
  • Any other duties as assigned by TAS.

 

JOB SKILLS:

  • Knowledge of team leading practices and techniques.
  • Ability to effectively coordinate and supervise multiple work orders.
  • Able to make decisions.
  • Commitment to the concept of continual improvement and effective quality management systems. 
  • The employee exhibits a professional manner in dealing with others and works to maintain constructive working relationships.
  • Ability to read blueprints and follow product specification instructions
  • Understanding the production and Work Order process
  • Managing people
     

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

  • High school diploma
     

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

  • Two years of pipe or structural fabrication experience

 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

  • Work performed in a shop environment;
  • Exposed to any number of elements but with none present to the extent of being disagreeable;
  • Requires normal vision and absence of color blindness
  • Physical effort equal to frequent moving of up to 50lbs materials;
  • Regularly required to sit or stand, bend and reach;
  • The use of Safety Glasses is required;
  • The use of earplugs is recommended;
  • Ability to stand up to 10 hours a day (with a lunch in between) and up to 6 days a week;
  • Ability to work in a non-air-conditioned environment.
  • Steel-toe boots required in Manufacturing Facility

 

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! When you join TAS, you join a Houston-headquartered company that is part of a large Houston-headquartered publicly traded company, Comfort Systems USA, with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company.
TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems that are engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Houston, encompassing 1.2m sq. feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation facilitating accelerated construction at customer’s facilities.
TAS’ fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery.
With our tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial culture as well as a talented and productive workforce, we continue to set and exceed aggressive market penetration and financial goals. More information is available on the company website at: www.tas.com.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TAS has a tobacco-free workplace policy, under which individuals are not allowed to smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products on the TAS premises, while conducting TAS business off premises or take "smoking" breaks during working hours. “smoking” and “tobacco or nicotine products” includes, but is not limited to, product such as cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vaping, all forms of smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, dip) and clove cigarettes
The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.
Applications and resumes will be kept on file for a limited time and the Company is under no duty or obligation to contact applicants if they are not selected for the job applied for or if other jobs become available in the future. Applicants that desire to apply for a job that becomes available at the Company in the future, should submit a new employment application or resume.
TAS Energy Inc. guarantees equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

 

  


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