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As an S&C Electric team member, you’ll work on projects that have real-world impact. You’ll help transform the grid for resilient and reliable power worldwide. S&C has more than a 100-year history of innovation and has been 100% employee-owned since 2012. We continue this legacy as a trusted, forward-thinking leader in the electrical industry. You will advance a safer, more reliable, and more resilient electrical grid. Our products help the grid adapt to severe weather and transition to clean energy. We’re big enough to be a respected industry leader but small enough for you to impact our company directly. Our commitment gives you opportunities to impact on and off the job positively. 

Join S&C to make an impact on tomorrow’s energy challenges and become an employee-owner!

Hours 

• 4:00pm - 12:30am

 

Compensation

At S&C, we are dedicated to providing competitive and equitable compensation for all our team members, with a commitment to transparency in our pay practices. The estimated hourly base pay rate for this position is $79,827 - $112,114 per year. This role is also eligible for S&C’s annual short-term incentive bonus, subject to eligibility criteria.

Join Our Team as a Supervisor!

Are you passionate about Leadership? S&C Electric Company is seeking a dynamic individual to coordinate our Supervisor function. As a Supervisor, you’ll be crucial in ensuring smooth operations and supporting our diverse team. The Supervisor - Fabrication is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the department, leading a team of skilled team members to achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in safety, quality, delivery, and cost (SQDC). The Supervisor - Fabrication manages welding, finishing, and other fabrication operations, ensuring fabricated parts meet quality standards and production timelines. This role requires strong expertise in the assigned area of fabrication, which may include press brake, punch press or other types of machinery and the ability to inspect and troubleshoot issues in fabrication processes.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership & People Management: Uphold and promote a professional work environment, addressing minor conflicts and fostering teamwork in line with S&C’s values. Monitor team tasks and provide regular feedback, both constructive and encouraging. Recognize and acknowledge team achievements and guide team members toward growth opportunities through mentoring and coaching. 
• Department Leadership: Provide day-to-day leadership support for the department, including supporting all administrative tasks completion, issue resolution, and the seamless coordination of resources. Supervise and guide the team to ensure all job orders and daily metrics are met.
• Fabrication Operations: Oversee and guide team members on fabrication processes and workflows, coordinating with department leaders and cascading best practices down to team members through team leads. Ensure team members have the correct training, knowledge, and fabrication equipment to complete their work successfully. Support the planning and coordinating of department production schedules, production rates and capacity plans, processing methods, and times. Review and ensure team understanding of goals and oversee the upkeep of KPI boards.
• Quality Management: Conduct inspections of welded parts, finished products or other fabricated materials, ensuring compliance with specifications and initiating corrective actions when needed. Enforce quality control measures to ensure products meet or exceed company standards. Support initiatives to continuously improve product quality and consistency. Set and maintain high levels of product quality. Support communication of corrective action plans, resolutions, and quality results.
• Health & Safety Compliance: Promote safety awareness and housekeeping, investigate and report on safety incidents, maintain and promote a safety-conscious manufacturing environment, enforce health and safety policies and procedures to create a safe working environment for all employees, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards related to production operations.
• Reporting: Create production and status reports. Communicates regularly with upper management regarding problems impacting production. Reports issues regarding production, quality, maintenance, or personnel to function leadership.
• Budget Support: Support the Manager in overseeing department’s budget, providing recommendations and helping to review expenditures.
• Compliance: Understand and comply with all applicable Company policies and rules

 

What you’ll Need To Succeed:

• High School Diploma / GED Equivalent
• Knowledge and understanding of metal fabrication processes, including best practices for fabricating and finishing metal in the assigned area (i.e. Welding, Painting, Grinding, or Electroplating best practices). 
• Good leadership skills within a manufacturing environment, with an ability to lead, guide, motivate, and delegate to deliver results.
• Solid critical thinking, organizational, planning, and project management skills, creative problem-solving when obstacles arise.
• Good interpersonal skills to establish meaningful relationships built on mutual trust and respect, navigate and resolve conflict, moderate behaviors, and foster collaborative working relationships amongst a diverse audience.
• Great communication skills, (written, verbal, listening, and presentation) able to liaise with internal stakeholders from support staff to function leadership.
• Adequate financial math skills with the ability to support budgetary decisions. 
• Good analytical skills with the ability to use and analyze data to drive informed decisions and problem-solve issues.
• Proven success partnering across teams, creating effective partnerships at all levels, and collaborating at an operational level.
• Adapts to change and different ways of doing things quickly and positively and finds ways to get things accomplished, even when faced with challenges.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills with an ability to leverage data to distil trends and insights that drive continuous improvement 

 

Preferred 

• Proficient computer skills, including experience using Oracle HCM and Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Associate’s degree in a technical discipline, Operations, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Press brake machines or other types of machining equipment 
• Decision-making capabilities with an ability to make balanced and informed decisions that help S&C achieve business goals 
• Knowledge of safety regulations and a commitment to maintaining a safe work environment
• The ability to work beyond normal working hours according to company needs

 

Physical demands:

• Standing: Occasionally required to stand and perform tasks for up to approximately 2 hours at a time, 5 days per week 
• Sitting: Frequently required to remain in a stationary position and perform desk-based or production tasks for up to approximately 2 hours at a time, 5 days per week 
• Walking: Frequently required to walk moderate distances across the S and C campus multiple times per day, 5 days per week 
• Lifting and Carrying: Infrequently required to solo lift and/or carry items ranging in weight from 5 lbs to 40 lbs,  exercising sound judgement to employ manual handling or machine lifts where required and risk assessments, if appropriate 
• Low Posture: Infrequently required to perform tasks using a low posture including but not limited to stooping, bending, crawling, crouching, kneeling or squatting 
• Position Self/ Move: Occasionally required to position self to perform tasks involving but not limited to reaching, twisting, rotating, and pushing/pulling 
• Manual Dexterity: Occasionally required to use hand-eye coordination to control both hands and arms for a full range of motion to operate equipment/machinery/power tools 
• Ascending/ Descending: Infrequently ascending or descending ladders and stairs 
• Observation/ Eyesight: Frequently required to observe details at close range including depth perception, peripheral vision, and the ability to differentiate between colors 
• Communication: Continuously required to talk and hear, in person and by phone/conference calls, using oral expression to communicate information 
• Availability: Occasionally required to work extended hours when necessary 

 

S&C Electric is committed to equal-opportunity employment. All employees and applicants will be considered without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation to complete the application, please email us at [email protected]. 

 

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In 1909, S&C Electric Company transformed the delivery of safe, reliable electricity with the invention of the Liquid Power Fuse. Today, as the world faces extreme weather events and the demand for electricity grows, S&C continues to innovate and advance the electrical grid, ensuring reliable and resilient power for homes, communities, and critical infrastructure around the world.

With a diverse, global workforce and core values around integrity, safety, and quality, S&C is a trusted industry leader and top workplace that offers meaningful careers to more than 3,500 team members. As a people-first organization, S&C is committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative workplace where team members advance their careers through robust talent-development programs and involved leadership. 

S&C’s deeply rooted belief diversity fosters greater creativity, innovation, and success guides the company to advance and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture. 

S&C provides a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

• Health and Welfare Benefits:  Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, , Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)
• Leave Benefits:  Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave

Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (KSOP) offering traditional and Roth 401(k) options and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) component; KSOP participants can receive annual ESOP company contributions of over 11% of eligible earnings (3% Core, up to 3.5% Match, Variable Periodic).

In (Production Operations/QA) we are responsible for maintaining S&C's longstanding reputation for quality products. While constantly integrating the latest technology into S&C's processes and adhering to the highest standards of quality, our work solidifies the trust our customers have in S&C that our equipment will be integral to solving tomorrow's energy challenges. We strive for continuous improvement in everything we do, knowing that our work impacts our customers, out team members, and our world.