Fabrication Manager

We’re looking for a positive team leader, fabrication guru, and floor leader to join our small team. Our Fabrication Manager likes to work both sides of their brain by not only keeping our fabrication team’s day to day managed and on track. This position also leads our carpentry projects. The fabrication manager also liaisons with job sites to ensure quality installations.

You will orchestrate the projects being made in our shop, do site visits, you must love problem solving, and you’ll work with design on how projects are designed to be made. Our Fabrication Manager keeps their teams weekly schedule on track and ensures all weekly to do’s are done. You must be a self starter and want to maintain a strong team dynamic! You take pride in making things on time and on budget.

Every project through our door is unique, so you must be flexible and enjoy the challenge of a big learning curve— whether it’s new designs, materials, or methods, we are committed to figuring it out. You must be able to inspire the team to create amazing projects that seem impossible!

Core Values

Integrity

AllKinds has grown by making promises to clients employees and going to lengths to keep them. It is an integral part of who we are and why people trust us. This core value sits hand in hand with the other core values - if a mistake is made, we communicate directly about it and proactively fix it in a resourceful manner. Keeping promises is more about building relationships of trust and respect, than being 100% perfect. We keep promises to our clients, to our employees, and each other. That is how we build rapport and solid relationships.

Proactive

We care. We want to make the future better than the past. We are mindful of improving our team's experience, our processes, our abilities and our clients experiences. We show we care by taking action when we see something needs attention. We take time to think through potential hurdles and do our best to address them - which gives our team and our clients a better experience. We don’t wait until the well is dry to find water.

Humility

We work hard to create a space to learn - where we approach problem solving with curiosity and honesty. We own up to mistakes so we can quickly recover from them and get help from our team to do so. Having humility helps us operate better as a team and it builds trust. We work to become aware of our personal strengths and limitations, and communicate these with the team in an effort to grow and make better progress together.

Resourceful

We creatively use our resources to accomplish big things. Our resources are our tools, our minds, our partners, and curiosity. We are flexible and adaptable - every project comes to us with a unique set of needs, so each of us must have resourcefulness to tackle the creative challenges that come up. Resourcefulness isn’t one person's strength, it's everyone's. We are a small team and we feel mighty! We know with teamwork, we can find the collective intelligence to succeed.

Be direct

We believe in clear, honest communication. We believe in transparency in our communication. We do not believe in the ‘feedback sandwich’ , sugarcoating things, internalizing feedback or spinning out on something. We do believe in directly communicating our needs. We do this while recognizing that we are humans, and we approach all communication with kindness, heart and professionalism.

Fabrication Manager Requirements

● 2 years of managerial experience

● 2 years of experience in fabrication, production and setting quotas

●3 years of carpentry experience

●Safety training demo experience

●Experience building dimensional art (the construction of, improving a fabrication method, choosing best structural methods)

● Proficient using Google Workspace and you will learn other programs (Asana, Toggl, Slack, etc)

●Artistic, creative experience is part of our ideal candidate

Fabrication Manager Responsibilities

●Oversee and manage our fabrication floor

●Manage Fabricators, Contractors, and Installation teams and keep scheduling up to date

●Collaborate with the design team on design development to ensure streamlined production

●Develop build plans for the fabrication team with the design team.

●Develop and convey daily and weekly to do’s to fabrication team

●Assist in hiring and overseeing of fabrication jobs (including independent contractors)

●Maintain communication with clients, vendors and our team in a warm and professional manner

●Liaison with GC’s at construction sites to ensure site is read, blocking is installed, take care of site issues.

●Creative problem solving skills

●Assist with woodshop safety trainings/procedures schedule tool or fabrication demos as needed

●Conduct site surveys to obtain dimensions and site conditions for projects and record information in elevations/plans

●Detailed knowledge of materials and curiosity to learn new materials. Assist sales with questions to estimate projects

●Be prepared with project updates and status for regular management meetings lead fabrication meetings

●Follow our management process (and propose enhanced solutions) for each and every job and ensure the team is following suit

●Hold quarterly conversations and annual reviews with your direct reports and address any HR issues that arise

●Manage the Weekly Production Schedule and to do list

●Keep Production Scorecard up to date weekly.

●Able to read shop drawings and mark them up for fabrication

●Quality control of all fabrication output.

●Setting a guideline (matrix) of quality needs for fabrication for each project.

Soft Skills

●Able to manage multiple projects at one time

●Calm under pressure

●Extremely organized, detail-focused and excellent time management skills

●Excellent people skills and communication

●Able to identify your own mistakes and seek improvement

●Be a positive leader ready to coach a small team, hold your team accountable to timelines, and inspire them to always learn andimprove

●Open to constructive feedback

●Collaborative and enjoy learning from and teaching others

Fabrication Experience Needed

Expertise in the following:

●using power tools and hand tools

●carpentry, working in a woodshop (table saw, panel saw, chop saw, band saw, miter saw, lathe, etc.)

●spray painting, latex, and acrylic painting

●knowledge of mold making

●knowledge of laser cutting

●knowledge of CNC processes

●knowledge of ceramics methods, you will learn to operate the kiln

●knowledge of 3D printing processes

●knowledge of Adobe Illustrator (you do not need to be proficient), but experience is a plus.

●know how to read shop drawings and do material take offs.

●resourceful and knowledgeable on various art forms

●understand the world of wood, fasteners and glues

●eager to learn and teach others new skills (CNC machine, laser cutter, metal working, wood working, etc.)

●Must have a valid driver's license and be comfortable driving vans/box trucks (access to a car is preferred, but not required)

●Able to stand on a ladder for long periods of time

●Able to lift 40 lbs

●Comfortable using industrial adhesives and resins

About AllKinds Studio

AllKinds is a multi-disciplinary design and fabrication studio that uses all kinds of materials to create custom art installations for brands. With commissions from corporations, organizations, art consultants, branding agencies and architecture firms, we tailor-make each artwork to fit large-scale spaces for brands, interiors, events and movements. Our dedicated team of designers, artists and fabricators mix materials, technologies and techniques to create art and objects that are innovative, meaningful, beautiful and on-brand. We thrive in our

collaborative approach, welcoming new ideas and getting excited about the “what ifs”. Our combined skill sets and handmade approachenables us to produce anything we can conceive, including even the most complex or technical concepts. With every project, our shared goal is to create a meaningful environment that tells a story in an elevated, authentic and impactful way. And nothing makes us happier than creating that story utilizing materials that were once meant for the landfill and giving them new life. At the completion of our projects,

we make every effort to repurpose, recycle or donate leftover materials to ensure they are given the longest, most meaningful lives possible.

Environment

This is an on-site job in our working studio in West Town where fabrication of large-scale artworks happen. You must be able to thrive in a fast-paced and open working studio environment. You will be physically building and making things. It's awesome (and noisy, dusty, and smelly at times…) but it’s the sounds, feeling and smell of creativity hard at work.

Compensation and Hours

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Full-time salaried role

Medical & dental insurance

paid time off

profit pool bonus

8am - 4:30pm M-F; however, client deadlines are our promise and must be met. We do our best to keep work within working hours as we value work life balance but that is not always possible.

To Apply

Email careers@ittakesallkinds.com to apply with Fabrication Manager -

‘your name’ in the subject line. Please include:

●a cover letter that explains why you feel you are a good fit, why our Core Values resonate with you, and if you do not have all of the

necessary qualifications please let us know your plan to fill the knowledge gap

●your resume

●Work samples

●2 professional references

●1 character reference

They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this job.