General Foreman

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide general supervision and direction to the employees at the job site.
• Oversee and work with staff in related work assignments, maintain records of operations, monitors inventories, requests equipment, and insures work areas are properly maintained.
• Evaluate staff performance, complete time sheets, accident reports, and work orders.
• Works directly with staff performing job duties
• Read blueprints and specification to determine the scope of work: location, quantities, and sizes of materials require
• Lay out, position, align, and fit together fabricated parts of structural metal products
• Set up face block, jigs, and fixture
• Locate and mark centerlines and reference points onto floor or face block and transpose them to work piece, using tape, chains, plumb bob, and squares
• Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps of bolt parts in positions for welding or riveting
• Performing rough-ins, repairing and replacing fixtures, and locating and repairing leaking or broken pipes.
• Cut or drill holes in walls or floors to accommodate the passage of pipes.
• Measure, cut, thread and assemble new pipe, placing the assembled pipe in hangers or other supports.
• Mount brackets and hangers on walls and ceilings to hold pipes, and set sleeves or inserts to provide support for pipes.
• Requisition tools and equipment, select type and size of pipe, and collect/transport materials and equipment to work site
• Cut pipe and lift up to fitters.
• Fill pipes with sand or resin to prevent distortion, and hold pipes during bending and installation.
• Performs related tasks as assigned.

BL Harbert International is an EOE/Vets/Disabilities