Stress Operations Foreman

About the Role

Oversee the operation, programming, maintenance, and troubleshooting of stress furnace and electric preheating equipment. Train and supervise Stress Operators while ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and production guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and perform routine maintenance on stress furnace and electric preheating equipment.
• Train employees on proper use and maintenance of equipment.
• Schedule work in accordance with production commitments, company plans, and budgets.
• Comply with safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and regulations.
• Read and interpret PWHT (Post Weld Heat Treatment) procedures.
• Review sketches for material types and wall thickness.
• Troubleshoot and repair equipment as needed.
• Coordinate with bay loaders to move spools and with QC to ensure procedures meet job requirements.
• Operate overhead cranes and rig pipe safely.
• Set up welds for local and/or furnace stressing.
• Identify and protect flange faces, thread ends, and specialty parts requiring heat treatment.
• Properly block or chock spools in the furnace.
• Ensure all PWHT calibrations are up to date.
• Apply knowledge of machining methods, including installing, aligning, and securing tools, attachments, and fixtures.
• Use hand tools and precision measuring instruments to verify conformance of machined workpieces to specifications.
• Read blueprints or job orders to obtain product specifications (dimensions, tolerances) and tooling instructions (fixtures, feed rates, cutting speeds).
• Process production jobs, complete production paperwork, and follow inspection procedures.
• Report discrepancies to management and maintain tools, gauges, and equipment in a clean, safe, and orderly manner.
• Perform scheduled daily maintenance and train other personnel as required.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience with stress furnace ovens and local stress equipment.

Skills

• Accountability – Ability to accept responsibility and account for actions.
• Accuracy – Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Active Listening – Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Detail Oriented – Ability to pay attention to minute details of a project or task.
• Loyalty – A sense of duty to the employer.
• Organization – Ability to follow a systematic method of performing tasks.
• Reliability – Dependable and trustworthy.
• Research Skills – Ability to design and conduct systematic, objective, and critical investigations.
• Responsibility – Ability to be held accountable for conduct.
• Oral Communication – Ability to communicate effectively with others using spoken word.
• Written Communication – Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in writing.
• Honesty/Integrity – Ability to be truthful and credible in the workplace.
• Working Under Pressure – Ability to complete assigned tasks in stressful situations.

Physical Demands

• Stand: Occasionally (up to 33% of the time)
• Walk: Occasionally
• Sit: Constantly (more than 66% of the time)
• Manually Manipulate: Frequently (33% - 66% of the time)
• Reach Outward: Occasionally
• Grasp: Frequently
• Speak: Frequently
• Lift/Carry:
  • 10 lbs or less: Frequently
  • 11-20 lbs: Occasionally
• Push/Pull:
  • 12 lbs or less: Occasionally