Lead. Elevate. Innovate.
Join us to guide a high-performing coil welding and testing operation where integrity, responsibility, courage, and innovation are more than words—they’re daily habits. You’ll steward safety, quality, and learning while restoring coil integrity at the test tank and building a stronger team around you.
Your mission
- Set the bar for safety and craftsmanship at the test tank; ensure proper PPE and safe methods, always.
- Locate and repair coil leaks—tube-to-tube and header repairs—and route finished work to the next stage.
- Own visibility of performance: publish leak rates, maintain the coil quality traveler, and keep the proficiency log with actions and insights.
- Mentor mechanics; facilitate continuous improvement and translate ideas into tangible upgrades to methods, systems, or services.
- Plan the day: review the schedule, align resources, and remove obstacles.
- Verify accuracy of the Quality metric report; collaborate with the Station Lead and Team Lead to correct discrepancies.
- Keep discipline tight: complete ISO documents daily; uphold 5S.
- Communicate across functions—Team Leads, Inspectors, Supply Chain—to maintain flow.
- Advance training in safety, ISO/quality procedures, production targets, and equipment cross-training.
- Promote LEAN principles; drive safety improvements, including near-miss reporting and results against safety metrics.
- Champion sustainability: cut waste, recycle more, and reduce energy and water consumption.
- Contribute wherever needed—take on other tasks as assigned by plant leadership.
Where you fit in the organization
This role reports to the Station Lead and Team Lead of the Coil Department and collaborates widely to achieve production and quality goals.
Experience and capabilities
- Preferred: at least one year in a coil department; strong knowledge of coil and assembly processes.
- Professional English communication; effective stakeholder engagement.
- Demonstrated initiative, problem solving, and teamwork; capable of leading small groups and coaching junior mechanics.
- Responsive to changing schedules; flexible and resilient.
- General understanding of BAC equipment construction; able to interpret welding symbols.
- Measurement fluency: ruler, combination square, protractor, metal gauge, micrometer; confident with basic math.
- Reads assembly, fabrication, and welding drawings; understands bills of material.
- Proficiency with oxy-fuel and plasma arc burning; certified on overhead cranes and jib booms with attention to balance/load limits.
- Solid Lean/CI foundation and deep familiarity with ISO procedures, policies, and work instructions for quality.
- Strong safety mindset; recognizes hazards and applies appropriate precautions.
Credentials and specialized work
- Pulse MIG Certification (WPS1-1MP6)
- Oxyfuel Certification (WPS1-106)
- Stick Weld Certification (WPS4)
- Able to complete Visual Weld Training (B31.5) with a passing score of 70%, every 3 years.
- Copper Sweat Certification (WPQ 101 -107TB102) preferred
- Tube-to-tube or tube repair (test tank); header repair (test tank)
Equipment you’ll use
Culture
We succeed by doing the right thing the right way—Earning Trust, Embracing Responsibility, Showing Courage, and Driving Innovation—while building people and processes that last.
WORKING CONDITIONS
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. The working environment includes lifting up to 50lbs. Standing is to be expected up to 80% of the time. Additional activities include: walking, reaching, bending, stooping, and sitting. Fine hand manipulation of controls is needed as well as hand eye coordination to perform changes. Working hours can include any of three shifts and generally are scheduled for forty hours a week. Some weekend overtime is to be expected. Working temperatures include both wide fluctuations within the plant as well as ambient outside temperatures.