Pipe Spooling Production Supervisor

## Description

As the ***Pipe Spooling*** ***Production Lead*** at Aitken, you'll play a key role in developing front-line leadership, maintaining reliable shop operations, and ensuring that production goals align with project schedules, quality standards, and company objectives. You'll drive success by leading day-to-day pipe spooling operations on the shop floor, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality fabrication of piping systems. This role drives safety compliance, product quality, and workforce productivity by actively engaging our craft team members and coordinating with planning and QA/QC teams to support continuous improvement throughout the plant.

**Shop Floor Leadership:**

• Direct, coordinate, and monitor daily pipe spooling and assembly activities to ensure schedule, safety, and quality compliance.
• Lead craft foremen and crews in executing backlog priorities and work assignments.
• Verify material availability (pipe, fittings, flanges, valves, etc.) and coordinate with production control for efficient workflow.
• Oversee tool and equipment usage, reporting maintenance or calibration needs to the Plant Manager.
• Ensure accurate reporting of labor hours, production progress, and work completion.
• Implement production planning and processes that assure cost and delivery is met or exceeded on pipe spooling jobs.
• Lead Continuous Improvement efforts to reduce labor hours and improve efficiency
• Lead the implementation of all pipe spooling capex projects to achieve planned ROI.

**Safety & Quality:**

• Promote and enforce company safety policies and procedures on the shop floor.
• Conduct daily safety meetings and job hazard analyses with crews.
• Partner with QA/QC to ensure all spools meet ASME B31.1 / B31.3 and project specifications.
• Identify and correct potential hazards or quality issues before they impact production.

**Workforce Supervision & Engagement:**

• Supervise and coach craft personnel (fitters, welders, helpers) to build engagement, teamwork, and accountability.
• Support attendance tracking, manpower allocation, and schedule adherence.
• Participate in performance feedback discussions and recommend training or corrective actions as needed.
• Encourage craft participation in process improvement, lean practices, and safety initiatives.

**Production Planning & Coordination:**

• Communicate daily goals and priorities from backlog and project schedules to crew leads.
• Collaborate with Production Planning, Production Control, and Logistics to maintain workflow balance.
• Support continuous improvement of spool fabrication, material handling, and staging efficiency.
• Update production trackers, spool logs, and job completion records as directed.

**Administrative & Reporting:**

• Complete and submit production reports, safety documentation, and time records accurately and on time.
• Support equipment inspections, preventive maintenance, and calibration tracking.
• Assist the Plant Manager with ad-hoc issue resolution and documentation.

**Education & Experience:**

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum 5–7 years of pipe spooling or industrial piping experience, including at least 2 years in a lead or foreman capacity.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of ASME, API, and ANSI piping codes and standards.
• Experience in production scheduling, material coordination, and workforce supervision.
• Training in safety leadership, lean manufacturing, or continuous improvement preferred.
• Working knowledge of MS Excel, Outlook, and Bluebeam PDF software.
• Familiarity with production control or ERP systems preferred.

**Work Environment & Physical Demands:**

• Position requires flexibility in work hours, including evenings or weekends when needed to meet production goals.
• Work is primarily in an industrial shop environment with exposure to noise, heat, dust, and heavy equipment.
• Must be able to stand or walk for long periods, climb ladders, and lift up to 50 lbs.
• Regular use of personal protective equipment (PPE) required: hard hat, safety glasses, gloves, steel-toe boots, long sleeves, hearing protection, and respirator as needed. #LI-KF1