Technical Expertise & Quality Control
- Material Specification Literacy: Deep understanding of metals, fasteners, and finishes required for elevator cabs, steel fabrication
- Component Familiarity: Technical comprehension of mechanical and electrical sub-assemblies, steel channels, sheet metal, including sheaves, wire ropes, limit switches, and control panels.
- Blueprint Proficiency: Ability to read complex mechanical and electrical schematics for custom elevator cabs, slings, and platforms.
- Metallurgy Knowledge: Understanding of steel, stainless steel, and aluminum fabrication processes
- Regulatory Familiarity: Strict adherence to elevator safety codes, such as ASME A17.1 / CSA B44, ensuring all fabricated components meet legal standards.
- Precision Focus: Commitment to tight tolerances so that fabricated material, structural framing align perfectly. Conducting audit before shipping of material
Safety & Compliance Leadership
- Safety Enforcement: Proactive management of occupational health and safety (OHSA) standards regarding heavy lifting, welding fumes, fabrication and assembly process.
- Scheduling: Consistent execution of equipment maintenance and fabrication schedules
- Certifications Management: Ensuring all shop welders and workers maintain active, valid industry certifications.
Operations & Project Management
- Supply Chain Control: Tracking raw material inventory (like raw steel, sheet metal, laser cut parts, electrical supplies, hardware, hydraulics etc.) to prevent production bottlenecks.
- Lean Manufacturing: Applying continuous improvement workflows to eliminate waste, optimize floor layout, and reduce lead times.
Team Leadership & Communication
- Cross-Functional Liaison: Acting as a clear bridge between engineering designers, shop floor technicians, and field installation crews.
- Mentorship: Upskilling technicians and workers
- Conflict Resolution: Maintaining high morale and resolving disputes quickly in a fast-paced, high-pressure industrial environment.
Strategic Sourcing & Negotiation
- Supply Chain Navigation: Ability to balance sourcing for fast-turnaround custom jobs with ability to source high-volume, cost-critical components.
- Total Cost of Ownership Focus: Evaluating vendors based on freight costs, lead times, customs duties, and quality failure rates rather than just the initial purchase price.
- Contractual Expertise: Skill in drafting long-term master service agreements (MSAs) that protect the shop against steel price volatility and sudden supplier shortages.
Inventory & Risk Management
- Just-In-Time (JIT) Coordination: Balancing lean inventory principles to minimize capital tied up in warehousing while ensuring raw steel and components are on the floor before fabrication begins.
- Supplier Diversification: Maintaining a robust, pre-qualified network of backup vendors to mitigate single-point-of-failure risks in the supply chain.
- Forecast Interpretation: Translating the fabrication shop's upcoming pipeline into proactive bulk material buys.
Relationship & Communication Skills
- Engineering Liaison: Collaborating closely with internal design engineers to source viable, cost-effective alternatives when specified parts are obsolete or facing long lead times.
Cross-Department Synergy: Communicating material arrival delays instantly to the project manager so labor scheduling can be adjusted dynamically without losing productivity.
Pay: $65,000.00-$85,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Work Location: In person
