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Southern Fabrication Works is seeking an Estimator. The Estimator determines the costs associated with completing the scope of work in a job. This position is responsible for completing the detailed projection of materials and labor needed to complete a given project and determining the financial needs of completing a project.
The Estimator works under the specific supervision, guidance, and direction of the Sales Manager, and the general supervision of the owner. The Estimator will also work directly with the project manager to determine timetables for any given project.
Interested candidates will be detailed oriented in math and data entry. Knowledge in computer-aided design (CAD) is preferred, along with experience in construction and/or manufacturing, specifically in estimating.
The following is a minimal description of specific areas of accountability for a Estimator:
- Assess the type of project, client and closing date of project to determine prioritization of all projects
- Analyze drawing, specifications, and other documentation to prepare comprehensive cost estimates
- When necessary, refer to previous projects of similar nature for cost comparison
- Use mathematical equations to determine the quantity of material needed by calculating width, length, depth, and density
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the scope for specific skills assigned
- Coordinates with the client and/or sales personnel on all changes in scope, questions, or clarifications regarding the work, during the bidding process
- Acts as a resource to project management during beginning phases to clarify and issues regarding what was considered in the estimate
- Reviews budget and project profitability status and goals with supervisor as required. Seeks input on corrective measures to continuously improve the identification and accuracy of cost figures
- Other duties as assigned
Applications are available on our website: https://www.southernfabricationworks.com/careers/
Please submit a completed application with attached resume to Southern Fabrication Works Office, 238 West 35 South, Burley, Idaho or by email to timbri@southenrfabricationworks.com.
Southern Fabrication Works is seeking a Powder Coat Application Specialist. The Powder Coat Application Specialist is responsible for routine and preventative maintenance painting duties within the manufacturing facility, including a full range of specialized painting projects. These include, but are not limited to, painting large structures, performing inspections, cleanups, proper storage, and disposal of paint products and operating various tools and equipment. Detail oriented, highly accurate, and the ability to communicate with coworkers, and management, as well as the ability to multitask and meet deadlines are essential.
The Powder Coat Application Specialist works under the specific supervision, guidance, and direction of the Fabrication Manager, and the general supervision of the General Manager.
The following is a minimal description of specific areas of accountability for a Powder Coat Application Specialist:
- Prepare parts for coating
- Follow all principles and practices of powder coating application
- Operate all coating equipment including guns, hoppers, ad booth collection systems
- Observe machine gauges and equipment operation to detect defects
- Determine paint flow, viscosity, and coating quality by performing visual inspections or by using viscometers
- Knowledge of color matching
- Bake parts at appropriate temperatures within time limitations
- Knowledge of thermosetting resin coatings, wash, and pretreatments
- Ensure that all components are produced/coated efficiently, and are consistent with company established goals for quality and customer order on-time performance
- Ensure safety guidelines are being met to assure a safe work environment
- Load and unload parts or product onto fixtures
- Knowledge of mechanics and repair of painting equipment
- Proper cleaning and maintenance of equipment
- Create and maintain work orders in computer software system
- Other duties as assigned
Applications are available on our website: https://www.southernfabricationworks.com/careers/
Please submit a completed application with attached resume to Southern Fabrication Works Office, 238 West 35 South, Burley, Idaho or by email to timbri@southenrfabricationworks.com.
Southern Fabrication Works is seeking a Salesperson. The Salesperson will sell food processing systems and services to customer. The Salesperson will work with customers to find what they want, create solutions, and ensure a smooth sales process. This position will also be responsible for finding new sales leads through a myriad of ways including, but not limited to, attending trade shows, business directories, following up with current clients, referrals, and cold calls.
The Salesperson works under the specific supervision, guidance, and direction of the Sales Manager, and the general supervision of the owner. The Salesperson will also work directly with the project manager to determine timetables for any given project, as well as the estimators, ensuring they have the required information needed to quote the job. The Salesperson also works with the engineering team to draft customized products which will meet the needs of the customer.
Interested candidates will have a proven track record of delivering outstanding sales results by building rapport with clients and/or potential clients, determining their need, and successfully closing a sale. Ideal candidates will have five (5) or more years experience in sales, with a manufacturing background, and at least two (2) years related experience in the food industry.
The following is a minimal description of specific areas of accountability for a Salesperson:
- Resolve customer complaints regarding sales and service.
- Contact regular and prospective customers to explain product features, build relationships, and solicit orders.
- Recommend products to customers, based on customers’ needs and interests.
- Answer customers’ questions about products, prices, availability, product use, and scheduling.
- Consult with clients after sales or contract signings to resolve problems and to provide ongoing support.
- Prepare drawings, estimates, and bids that meet specific customer needs.
- Monitor market conditions, product innovations, and competitors’ products, prices, and sales.
- Meet with customers to discuss their evolving needs and to assess the quality of our company’s relationship with them.
- Negotiate details of contracts and order forms.
- Support the Sales Manager on direct foreign sales and service outlets of an organization.
- Advise dealers and distributors on policies and operating procedures to ensure functional effectiveness of business under the direction of the Sales Manager.
- Visit franchised dealers to stimulate interest in establishment or expansion programs.
- Identifies, researches, and contacts prospective customers and builds positive relationships that will generate future sales and repeat business.
- Promote product lines by attending industry events and expositions.
- Proven ability to develop business relationships and direct sales activities
- Establish sales quotas and plan market strategies
- Proven track record of delivering outstanding sales results through direct sales and distributor teams
- Other duties as assigned
Applications are available on our website: https://www.southernfabricationworks.com/careers/
Please submit a completed application with attached resume to Southern Fabrication Works Office, 238 West 35 South, Burley, Idaho or by email to timbri@southenrfabricationworks.com.
Southern Fabrication Works is seeking Welders. Welders use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. Fits and welds or repairs as assortment of fixtures, weldments, sheet metal, machined castings, machined forgings, machined parts, and so on.
Welders works under the specific supervision, guidance, and direction of the Fabrication Shop and Production Managers, and the general supervision of the owner.
Interested candidates will be detailed oriented. Have two years’ experience TIG welding and be able to set up a welding machine by themselves. Candidates will have experience welding stainless steel.
The following is a minimal description of specific areas of accountability for a Welder:
- Welds a wide range of materials, i.e., iron, carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless steel, nonferrous metals, etc. using the G.T.A.W. process.
- Adjusts welding apparatus (select voltages, pressures, etc.).
- Performs set ups requiring aligning, blocking, and clamping of components to maintain specifications and avoid distortion.
- Has working knowledge of resistance, induction, stud, gas and automatic Tig welding.
- Sets up tooling and establishes parameters for all prototype and production jobs.
- Dimensionally inspects welds and other characteristics of parts being welded.
- Must have personal tools as required.
- Always maintains good housekeeping practices.
- Understands, implements, and maintains the company's quality policy in the performance of all duties and responsibilities.
- Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
- Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
- Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, callipers, and rulers.
- Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straight edges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
- Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
- Weld separately or in combination, using aluminium, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
- Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
- Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, per welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
- Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
- Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
- Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
- Analyse engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
- Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
- Other duties as assigned
Applications are available on our website: <a href="https://www.southernfabricationworks.com/careers/">https://www.southernfabricationworks.com/careers/</a>
Please submit a completed application with attached resume to Southern Fabrication Works Office, 238 West 35 South, Burley, Idaho or by email to timbri@southenrfabricationworks.com.
Southern Fabrication Works is seeking a Mechanical Drafter/Designer. The Drafter collaborates with mechanical engineers, drafters, and other engineering staff to develop mechanical designs from concept through detailed, solid drawings, schematics, and supporting documents for engineered process equipment and systems designed to meet the needs of the customers.
The Drafter works under the specific supervision, guidance, and direction of the Engineering Manager, and the general supervision of the owner.
Interested candidates will be detailed oriented. Have an Associate Degree in drafting or relevant work experience. Experience with SolidWorks preferred.
The following is a minimal description of specific areas of accountability for a Mechanical Drafter:
- Analyze design or requirements information for mechanical equipment or systems
- Confer with technical personnel to prepare designs or operational plans
- Discuss designs or plans with clients
- Verify mathematical calculations
- Develop detailed drawings and specifications for mechanical equipment, dies, tools, and controls using computer-assisted drafting (CAD) equipment
- Lay out and draw schematic, orthographic, or angle views to depict functional relationships of components, assemblies, systems, and machines
- Coordinate with and consult other workers to design, lay out, or detail components and systems and resolve design or other problems
- Check dimensions of materials to be used and assign numbers to the materials
- Review and analyze specifications, sketches, drawings, ideas, and related data to assess factors affecting component designs and the procedures and instructions to be followed
- Modify and revise designs to correct operating deficiencies or to reduce production problems
- Compute mathematical formulas to develop and design detailed specifications for components or machinery, using CAD
- Position instruction and comments onto drawings
- Lay out, draw, and reproduce illustrations for reference manuals and technical publications to describe operation and maintenance of mechanical systems
- Design scale or full-size blueprints
- Conger with customer representatives to review schematics and answer questions pertaining to installation of systems
- Work with other drafters, engineers, machinists, and fabricators
- Other duties as assigned
Applications are available on our website: https://www.southernfabricationworks.com/careers/
Please submit a completed application with attached resume to Southern Fabrication Works Office, 238 West 35 South, Burley, Idaho or by email to timbri@southenrfabricationworks.com.
Southern Fabrication Works is seeking a Mechanical Engineer. The Engineer delivers detailed analytical concepts and then backs up those concepts with written justification. The Mechanical Engineer will be able to take a project from the conceptual stage through to completion, considering budgeting and operational considerations. When given a project brief, be able to research, design, develop, test, make necessary changes, and produce a mechanical solution which meets the project requirements, while fitting within the time and budget constraints.
The Mechanical Engineer works under the specific supervision, guidance, and direction of the Engineering Manager, and the general supervision of the owner.
Interested candidates will be detailed oriented. Have a bachelor’s degree or higher in mechanical engineering or mechanical engineering technology. Experience with SolidWorks preferred. Prefer, but not required, License as a Professional Engineer (PE).
The following is a minimal description of specific areas of accountability for a Mechanical Engineer:
- Read and interpret blueprints, technical drawings, schematics, or computer-generated reports
- Research, design, evaluate, install, operate, or maintain mechanical products, equipment, systems, or processes to meet requirements
- Develop, coordinate, or monitor all aspects of production, including selection of manufacturing methods, fabrication, or operation of product designs
- Investigate equipment failures or difficulties to diagnose faulty operation and recommend remedial actions
- Develop or test models of alternate designs or processing methods to assess feasibility, sustainability, operating condition effects, potential new applications, or necessity of modification
- Specify system components or direct modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design, performance specifications, or environmental regulations
- Recommend design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions
- Assist drafters in developing the structural design of products, using drafting tools or computer-assisted drafting equipment or software
- Oversee installation, operation, maintenance, or repair to ensure that machines or equipment are installed and functioning according to specifications
- Conduct research that tests or analyzes the feasibility, design, operation, or performance of equipment, components, or systems
- Design test control apparatus or equipment or develop procedures for testing products
- Provide feedback to design engineers on customer problems or needs
- Research and analyze customer design proposals, specifications, manuals, or other data to evaluate the feasibility, cost, or maintenance requirements of designs or applications
- Other duties as assigned
Applications are available on our website: https://www.southernfabricationworks.com/careers/
Please submit a completed application with attached resume to Southern Fabrication Works Office, 238 West 35 South, Burley, Idaho or by email to timbri@southenrfabricationworks.com.
Southern Fabrication Works is seeking a Saw Operator. The Saw Operator will primarily operate our bandsaw to cut stainless steel and tubing to exact measurements specified on the blueprints. Detail oriented, highly accurate, and the ability to communicate with coworkers, and management, as well as the ability to multitask and meet deadlines are essential.
The Saw Operator works under the specific supervision, guidance, and direction of the Pre-Fab Manager, and the general supervision of the General Manager.
Interested candidates will have experience operating a bandsaw, along with other power and hand tools, can accurately and precisely read a tape measure, and can read and understand blueprints.
The following is a minimal description of specific areas of accountability for a Saw Operator:
- Set up and operate a bandsaw
- Read and understand blueprints and/or job orders to determine specifications, such as material, type and size of stock, and dimensions to be cut
- Obtain and transfers materials to machine, manually or with a hoist
- Set saw blade angle to obtain desired angle of cut, using wrenches and other tools
- Ability to take extremely accurate measurements
- Keep a clean and safe work station
- Ability to operate a forklift
- Simple mathematical calculations
- Deburr material from laser and waterjet
- Provide backup to other areas in pre-fabrication as needed
- Other duties as assigned
Applications are available on our website: https://www.southernfabricationworks.com/careers/
Please submit a completed application with attached resume to Southern Fabrication Works Office, 238 West 35 South, Burley, Idaho or by email to timbri@southenrfabricationworks.com.
Southern Fabrication Works, LLC is located in Burley, Idaho where we design and construct custom food processing equipment. We are currently seeking a Laser Operator. The laser operator will primarily operate our laser, cutting sheets of stainless steel into various parts, deburring the parts, and then ensuring they are put in the proper kitting box. Detail oriented, highly accurate, and the ability to communicate with coworkers, and management, as well as the ability to multitask and meet deadlines are essential.
The laser operator works under the specific supervision, guidance, and direction of the Pre-Fabrication Manager, and the general supervision of the Owner.
Interested candidates will have experience operating a laser, along with other power and hand tools, can accurately and precisely read a tape measure, and can read and understand blueprints.
The following is a minimal description of specific areas of accountability for a Saw Operator:
- Perform daily machine startup and shutdown procedures
- Stage raw materials at work center for day’s production
- Load and unload machine with correct sheet sizes and label parts with correct part numbers
- Report all equipment deficiencies to supervisor
- Ensure production schedule follow-through as allocated by Pre-Fabrication Manager and/or Engineering Manager
- Perform operator-level maintenance and cleaning of cutting equipment and work area in accordance with company standards and manufacture’s machine recommendations
- Check parts to ensure they are within tolerance of company standards
- Deburr parts that come off the laser
- Place materials that come off the laser and are deburred in the proper kitting box for each job
- Other duties as assigned
- Continuously lift 50 pounds
- Work at a fast pace
- Use and read a tape measure
- Know and use proper rigging techniques to load and unload machines
Applications are available on our website: https://www.southernfabricationworks.com/careers/
Please submit a completed application with attached resume to Southern Fabrication Works Office, 238 West 35 South, Burley, Idaho or by email to timbri@southernfabricationworks.com.
