Fabrication Shop Foreman - Huntsville

Position Description: Manage, plan, organize, and supervise fabrication shop operations and assist with skilled trades scopes of work activities. Lead, direct, and coordinate work of Turner Trade fabrication shop employees, subcontractors, and/or vendors. Manage schedule delivery, quality of work performed, and adhere to project budget and safety requirements. 

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities:

• Function as working foreman while leading and supervising fabrication shop employees to complete work.
• Foster workplace environment where all people demonstrate highest standards of care of each other using Turner’s Active Caring philosophy with teams, subcontractors, and clients.
• Oversee and make decisions related to performance of fabrication shop work and review jobsite needs with project staff for logistics, organization, plant layout, equipment, quality control, and workforce utilization.
• Collaborate with project team leader to schedule and expedite material and equipment deliveries.
• Coordinate, direct, and monitor shop employee activities and anyone within shop, support use of tools and work alongside employees and others in shop, as necessary.
• Validate materials and quantities provided by subcontractors or suppliers, as ordered by project manager.
• Coordinate shop hold and inspection activities.
• Review construction documents and coordinate and plan fabrication shop construction ahead of work going in place.
• Contribute to shop logistics, organization, layout, equipment, and workforce utilization.
• Fully comprehend scopes of work per plans and specifications and lead team to complete installation.
• Collaborate with project team to create schedules and determine sequencing of work. Develop and implement recovery strategies to maintain project schedule, as required.
• Collaborate with project team for scheduling and expediting delivery of materials and equipment.
• Develop fabrication shop work schedules and delegate assignments to crew.
• Oversee work among assigned trade teams to promote coordinated project operations.
• Engage with subcontractors and suppliers to communicate and verify their understanding of their scope of work and work implementation plan and monitor their work progress.
• Manage contracted work to ensure compliance and conformity of installation with approved contract documents.
• Investigate and document resolution of issues within assigned scope of work.
• Work closely with Superintendent to resolve local area problems related to procedures, precedence, design clarifications, adequate labor, equipment schedule, and other related matters.
• Note and repair any deficiencies identified by Quality Control inspectors (prior to putting work in place), and document corrections made to deficiencies up to and including Non-Conformance Reports (NCR) and/or other reports required by AISC (American Institute of Steel Construction).
• Review, complete, and submit as required daily documentation for time sheets, production sheets, extra work tickets, daily construction reports (DCRs), and safety paperwork.
• Collaborate with Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) and Quality Control teams for overall site safety and quality programs.