Lead Arm Welder 1St Shift

Meyer Utility Structures, is hiring for a Lead Arm Welder for our plant located in Fort Worth, TX. As a Lead Arm Welder, you'll use jigs/holding fixtures to lay out pieces to be welded according to blueprints, layouts, schematics, or work orders. You'll then use manual/semi-automatic/automatic welding equipment to join, surface, fabricate, and repair parts of metal or other weldable materials. The Lead Arm Welder also inspects completed work for conformance to specifications and performs minor maintenance to equipment.
Meyer Utility Structures, an Arcosa subsidiary, is an industry leader in the engineering design and fabrication of concrete, lattice, and tubular steel structures for transmission, distribution, and substation applications. With over sixty years of innovative engineering and manufacturing expertise, Meyer has helped to author and validate many of today's transmission industry standards and specifications.
Schedule- Mon-Fri 5:00am-3:30pm with occasional overtime on Saturdays.
What you'll do:

• Assist the bay supervisor with the communication of daily expectations for Quality, Production, Safety and On Time Deliveries.
• Ensure employees follow all safety procedures and protocols, serve on safety committees and complete regular safety audits.
• Assist the bay supervisor with managing and forecasting daily production operations of heavy industrial products for assigned work group.
• Assist the bay supervisors with setting and managing production schedules based on product introduction, equipment efficiency, materials supply, staffing resources, and volume required to meet demand and to ensure maximum production quantity and quality.
• Overcome obstacles as they appear in achieving established safety, production, efficiency, and quality metrics.
• Conduct fit up checks on products as required by production and quality processes.
• Ensure all production paperwork is properly completed on time and accurately on each work product in the production bay of responsibility.
• Ensure work products are completed and inspected properly prior to quality inspectors being scheduled for inspections.
• Coach employees on work quality and quantity such as fit up and welding processes, ensuring goals are met and solving issues as they arise and are identified.

• No less than 2 years of demonstrated successful experience as a welder. Welding experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience in a metal fabrication or welding facility, specifically with flux and or metal core welding is high preferred.
• Thorough knowledge of blueprints and layouts, preferably related to transmission poles.
• Completion of Meyer Utility Structure's Visual Inspection Certification (VT) course is highly preferred, but not required.
• A high degree of dependability, maturity, and strong leadership characteristics as demonstrated through previous professional work experience.
• Regular and predictable attendance, a great attitude, and an ability to work well with a team towards achieving a common goal.