Production Manager – Welding Fabrication Shop Foreman

Custom Machinery Manufacturing Metal Fabrication
Location: Guelph - Cambridge -Kitchener, ON area

Salary: 110K-125K base benefits
5 days a week on Site Day shift Monday -Friday

Minimum Experience Required (MUST have): Close to 8–10 years of Manager / leadership experience
in custom metal fabrication under the Canadian Health & Safety Requirements

Our client is a leading manufacturer of custom equipment manufacturing for mining and similar applications and has a job open for Production Manager – Welding Fabrication Shop Foreman

for custom machinery manufacturing to oversee Production, Material & Production Planning, H&S,
Shipping and work closely with Quality & Engineering. Hands-on fabrication / machining/ welder experience with 10+ years in running fabrication shops under Canadian H&S requirements is a MUST have. The role is based in the Guelph- Cambridge-KW area.

Production Manager – Welding Fabrication Shop Foreman is fully responsible for giving leadership to the two shifts and lead Production Supervisors, to ensure shift productivity, material labour usage, capacity optimization and work closely with HR, Quality, H&S, and oversee the plant shop floor -CNC Lathe, Cutting, bending welding within this custom fabrication plant and be responsible for Production Planning, Production scheduling, Material Planning and supervision. You will be responsible for scheduling, safety, performance management, coaching and mentoring. You will oversee the production budget and work along with Quality & Plant Engineering Process Improvement,
Continuous Improvement lean initiatives.
Production Manager – Welding Fabrication Shop Foreman will ideally have 10+ years as a welder/ welder fitter/ machinist with 10+ years as shop foreman / Production Manager / a minimum of 7–8 years’ leadership experience as Production manager / Plant manager within Canadian Health & Safety requirements within custom machining welding metal fabrication. Hands-on welding experience / experienced welder (MIG TIG) with leadership / management/ team lead experience highly preferred.
Qualified applicants already in the Guelph-Cambridge -Kitchener, ON area or willing to relocate to the area on their own expense (candidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada) ON area are invited to forward their resumes in MS Word format to Preeti.Dayal@hays.com. Please write “Production Manager – Welding Fabrication Shop Foreman” in the subject line of your e-mail.

While we thank all applicants for your interest, only the most qualified candidates will be contacted due to volume of applicants.