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The Structural Steel Fabrication Lead will oversee daily shop activities, guide fitters and welders, and ensure efficient fabrication work while providing technical support. The candidate should have strong experience in structural steel fabrication and leadership skills.
Job Description
Structural Steel Fabrication Lead
Location: Cocoa Beach, FL
Job Type: Contract-to-Hire
Starting Pay: $30.00/hour; higher pay available based on experience
About the Role
We are hiring a hands-on Structural Steel Fabrication Lead to help direct daily shop activities and keep fabrication work moving safely and efficiently. This position provides day-to-day guidance to fitters, welders, and other fabrication personnel while coordinating workflow, quality, and production priorities.
The right candidate will have solid structural steel experience and the ability to lead a busy fabrication team while also providing practical technical support on the shop floor.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Coordinate daily fabrication activities and help meet production and delivery schedules.
- Direct fitters, welders, and fabrication employees and distribute work based on shop priorities.
- Balance workloads and monitor progress to maintain efficient production.
- Provide hands-on guidance with fit-up, welding, layout, and blueprint interpretation.
- Address fabrication problems and help determine practical solutions.
- Communicate production status, schedule changes, and potential delays to shop leadership.
- Promote safe work practices, quality requirements, and shop procedures.
- Work with maintenance personnel to address equipment issues and minimize downtime.
- Coordinate with Quality Control on inspections and fabrication requirements.
- Assist with dimensional verification, inspections, and required documentation.
- Help train and onboard employees and support ongoing employee development.
- Maintain an organized, clean, and safe work area.
- Perform other shop leadership duties as needed.
Requirements
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience leading or supervising structural steel fabrication teams.
- Strong experience with welding, fit-up, layout, and structural steel fabrication.
- Experience operating or working around CNC fabrication equipment and shop machinery.
- Ability to read and interpret fabrication drawings and blueprints.
- Understanding of shop safety, quality requirements, and production processes.
- Tekla EPM/GO experience preferred.
- Strong leadership, communication, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to work overtime, weekends, or flexible hours when production requirements call for it.
About the job
- Posted on
- Aug 28, 2026
- Job type
- Contract
- Location
- Cocoa, FLOn-site
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