This is a hands-on leadership and operations position responsible for turning released project requirements into organized, predictable shop production. The Production Manager will control the shop schedule, assign manpower and equipment, coordinate material readiness, manage workflow through fabrication and welding, identify bottlenecks, track production performance, and ensure completed work is properly handed off to Quality Control and Shipping.

The Production Manager will be expected to use Tekla PowerFab as the primary production management and tracking system for shop status, production progress, labor tracking, material status, sequencing, QC coordination, and shipping readiness.

We are looking for someone who understands that running a fabrication shop is more than keeping people busy. The goal is to put the right work, on the right machine, with the right people, at the right time while protecting quality, schedule, and labor efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the daily production schedule and rolling 3-week lookahead.
• Use Tekla PowerFab daily to manage and maintain accurate production information, including job status, production progress, material status, labor tracking, sequencing, and completion status.
• Ensure information in PowerFab accurately reflects what is physically happening on the shop floor.
• Review fabrication releases before work enters production.
• Verify drawings, revisions, scope, sequencing, and fabrication requirements are current and clear.
• Confirm material, plate, hardware, consumables, and required components are ready before shop labor is committed.
• Use PowerFab material and production information to identify shortages, incomplete material packages, and production constraints before work begins.
• Reject incomplete, unclear, or conflicting releases back to Project Management before fabrication begins.
• Assign manpower by project, fabrication stage, skill level, workload, and priority.
• Assign and coordinate shop machinery and production resources.
• Establish proper routing through cutting, drilling, fitting, fabrication, welding, finishing, staging, QC, and shipping.
• Communicate daily and weekly priorities to shop leads and production employees.
• Balance manpower and machine capacity between multiple active projects.
• Adjust production plans when material delays, equipment downtime, field needs, or project priorities change.
• Monitor daily production output, labor hours, delays, shortages, downtime, and production blockers.
• Track shop throughput and labor performance against schedule and budget.
• Identify bottlenecks and take corrective action before they affect project schedules.
• Coordinate closely with Project Management, Procurement, QC, and Shipping.
• Ensure incomplete or defective work does not get pushed into the next production stage.
• Maintain equipment maintenance schedules and coordinate repairs to minimize preventable downtime.
• Maintain organized staging so complete and incomplete material remain clearly separated.
• Confirm work is truly inspection-ready before releasing it to QC.
• Maintain accurate QC-ready and production-complete status within PowerFab.
• Identify ship-ready packages and ensure shipping sequence matches project and field requirements.
• Coordinate production status with shipping so PowerFab and the physical shop accurately reflect what is ready to load.
• Stop production when current releases, material readiness, machine routing, priorities, or downstream requirements cannot be verified.

What Success Looks Like

The Production Manager will be expected to create a shop environment where:

• Employees know exactly what they are working on and what comes next.
• Production is driven by a current schedule instead of verbal direction and emergencies.
• PowerFab is kept current and used as the production system of record rather than relying on verbal updates or disconnected spreadsheets.
• The status shown in PowerFab matches the actual status of material and fabrication on the shop floor.
• Machines and crews are planned instead of competing for resources.
• Material shortages are identified before fabrication starts.
• Jobs do not run from outdated or mixed drawing revisions.
• Production priorities are clearly communicated.
• Bottlenecks are identified early and corrected.
• Labor is being used on the highest-priority work.
• Production goals and