We are seeking a Fabrication Director to join our team. This position oversees & leads fabrication division. Core responsibilities center on advancing business growth and overseeing the development of the fabrication business. Secondary duties include estimation, project management, and shop floor management.
 

About Staab Construction

Staab Construction Corporation is one of the premier builders of municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment systems in the Midwest. In addition, we specialize in dams and other civil environmental structures. Founded in 1984, Staab Construction has experienced steady growth by developing an expert workforce and embracing the right technology to meet each customer’s expectations. With over three generations of expertise in General, Mechanical, & Earthwork construction, Staab Construction offers our customers creativity and innovation.
 

Why Work at Staab Construction?

Staab’s core values and reputation as a great place to work enables growth opportunities for employees at all levels. Employees are offered a variety of training and education opportunities that will help shape an employee’s career path.

Ever consider building your own business? Why do it alone when you can join Staab Construction as an Employee Owned ESOP Corporation. Share the risk, avoid the stressful pitfalls, and celebrate the substantial rewards. ESOP Employees of Staab Construction contribute to the corporate building and ownership to which Staab stands for today. Research has shown that companies that are employee owned pay higher wages to employees, pay better benefits, and provide significantly greater retirement income for employees than non-ESOP companies.

Essential Duties, Responsibilities, Functions

Division Leadership:

• Oversees & establishes divisional strategic direction and development for continuous and sustainable growth.
• Understands, develops, and is responsible for all financial goals & objectives reporting to appropriate directors.
• Drive marketing & sales, build & maintain customer relations.
• Create risk management plan, implement, & monitor.
• Develops, trains, and reinforces policy & procedures to ensure division is functional & efficient.
• Ensures that products meet customer specification and quality expectations.
• Monitors material price indexes, makes necessary adjustments to prevent price escalation.
• Collaborate closely with shop floor manager. Ensure cohesiveness between project team and shop floor.
• Seek and establish vendor relationships for best pricing, product quality, and delivery.
• Ongoing review of fabrication department to identify and implement improvement in safety and operation efficiencies.

Fabrication Management:

• Monitors fabricator and drafter workloads to identify project needs.
• Ensures fabrication department stays on schedule and within budget.
• Writes welding procedures, acquires welding certificates, and arranges necessary certified training.
• Establishes quality control procedures and monitors.
• Assist in analyzing, resolving, & reporting on cost history code variances.
• Coordinate activities to support internal (SCC) customers and outside customers.
• Analyze requirements and make recommendations for fab shop systems, processes, training, and equipment needs.
• Ensure shop protocols, procedures, and safety practices are adhered to.
• Recognizes areas of concern and reports to Production Director.

Division Leadership:

• Oversees & establishes divisional strategic direction and development for continuous and sustainable growth.
• Understands, develops, and is responsible for all financial goals & objectives reporting to appropriate directors.
• Drive marketing & sales, build & maintain customer relations.
• Create risk management plan, implement, & monitor.
• Develops, trains, and reinforces policy & procedures to ensure division is functional & efficient.
• Ensures that products meet customer specification and quality expectations, which involves a broad spectrum of engineering oversight.
• Monitors material price indexes, makes necessary adjustments to prevent price escalation.
• Collaborate closely with shop floor manager. Ensure cohesiveness between project team and shop floor.
• Seek and establish vendor relationships for best pricing, product quality, and delivery.
• Ongoing review of fabrication department to identify and implement improvement in safety and operation efficiencies

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional degree ideally in business, construction, and/or engineering background.
• 2+ years in process piping construction.
• Previous construction or fabrication project management desired.
• General knowledge of costing and finishes for C.S and S.S.
• Construction field experience or the desire to acquire internally as necessary to meet performance expectations.
• Experience or ability to acquire training with the following software systems or equivalents: All Microsoft products, Bluebeam, Trimble Accubid Estimating, InEight Hard Dollar Estimating, P6 Critical Path Scheduler, Viewpoint, Inventor, AutoCAD Revit 3D, Hilti Profis Anchor Engineering.
• OSHA safety training completion or ability to acquire.
• Valid and clean driving record.

Desired Skills

• Team leadership, mentorship, safety oriented, communication, organizational, attention to detail, creative thinker, risk taker, and selfdriven with positive humorous attitude.
• Professional verbal & written communication, proposal letter writing.
• Ability to make critical decisions & execute with team affectively.
• Ability to provide, receive, and address constructive criticism & conflict resolution in a professional manner internally & externally.
• Strong negotiation & persuasive skills.
• At times work remote and conduct necessary communication thru cloud services, Teams Meeting, and Zoom.
• Critical mathematical computation in algebra, trigonometry, & statistics.
• Technical knowledge & layout of piping system, process mechanical equipment, structural supporting assemblies, and general understanding of electrical/instrumentation systems.
• Follow policies, guidelines, & procedures as established by the organization

Performance Skills

• Work within an office & field environment.
• Time management and multitasking.
• Able & willing at critical times to work additional nights & weekends to meeting internal & external customer expectations.

Certificates & Licenses

• OSHA 30, Confined Space, First Aid, CPR
• Water or Waster Water Operator License (Desired but not required)
• Dale Carnegie (Desired or willing to obtain)
• AGC Leadership (Desired or willing to obtain)
• AGC Project Manager Development (Desired or willing to obtain)

Work Hours

• Monday thru Friday or as needed to satisfy internal & external customers.

Benefits

• Work remotely (Based on performance after training period is complete and performance expectations are met.)
• Relocation Assistance
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401K Retirement Plan & match
• Cash Bonus Payout
• Health, Life, AD&D, & Dental Insurance
• Short & Long-Term Disability
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP)
• Paid vacation and holiday
• Continuous leadership, employee training & education

**Please submit a formal resume in addition to completing the application form.