Millwright Foreman Multi-Craft Morristown, TN

About the role

At Cherokee Millwright, we are a multi-craft company that focuses on the needs of our customers by providing multi-trades personnel to meet the customer’s unique job requests. All field employees will be cross-trained in various trades such as millwrighting, pipefitting, welding, sheet metal, civil, etc. The focus of this position will be hands-on work with the additional oversight of the installation, dismantle, or movement of machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans, rigging plans, blueprints, or other drawings.

Responsibilities

• Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities based on work priority, quantity of equipment and skill of personnel.
• Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
• Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of the job site to ensure adequate working conditions.
• Examine objects, systems, or facilities, and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.
• Report accidents, near misses, and injuries to office supervision and actively cooperate with investigations.
• Compile operational and personnel data, such as time worked, jobs worked, inventory data, equipment used, repair and maintenance information.
• Report to office supervision concerns with employees’ work-related issues and provide mentoring to employees to correct job-skill deficiencies.
• Conduct on-the-job training or arrange for worker training in safety or equipment use.
• Read blueprints and schematic drawings to determine work procedures.
• Dismantle machines.
• Move machinery and equipment using hoists, dollies, rollers, airbags, and forklifts.
• Assemble and install equipment such as shafting, conveyors, and tram rails.
• Construct foundations for machines; insert shims, adjust tension on nuts and bolts, or position parts using hand tools and measuring instruments to set specified clearances between moving and stationary parts.
• Align machines and equipment using hoists, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.
• Assemble machines and bolt, weld, rivet, or otherwise fasten them to foundation or other structures.
• Repair and lubricate machines and equipment.
• Use various hand tools, power tools, torches, and welders.
• Operate forklifts, scissor lifts, and boom lifts.
• Perform additional skills in other crafts as needed to meet customer requirements.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Oversee the daily work assignments of a crew of one to 12 employees.
• Report to office supervision the performance of the crew in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
• Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; addressing complaints/resolving problems and/or reporting those to office supervision for assistance.

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or four to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand.
• Frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; and vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.