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Fabrication Manager

White Cap

Fort Wayne, INJobSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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Location
Fort Wayne, IN
Work Authorization
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Job overview

The Fabrication Manager oversees fabrication operations and quality control, ensuring production schedules, budgetary goals, and quality standards are met. The role coordinates equipment and orders through the facility, aligns shop activities with sales, and monitors safety, inventory, and truck loading. It manages a team and typically requires a related bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of related experience. Basic steel fabrication and equipment understanding is preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Steel Fabrication, nice to haveEquipment, nice to haveTeamwork, nice to haveOwnership, nice to haveGuiding, nice to haveTraining, nice to haveTeaching, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Related Discipline, nice to have7+ Years Related Experience, nice to haveCertification, nice to have

Full job description

A position at White Cap isn’t your ordinary job. You’ll work in an exciting and diverse environment, meet interesting people, and have a variety of career opportunities.

The White Cap family is committed to Building Trust on Every Job. We do this by being deeply knowledgeable, fully capable, and always dependable, and our associates are the driving force behind this commitment.

Job Summary

Oversee fabrication and quality control, monitoring progress and ensuring production deadlines are met.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities

  • Directs fabrication operations so that production and budgetary goals are consistently met. Oversees and monitors the operations for the purpose of ensuring that production schedules are met and quality standards are maintained. Determines equipment availability and capabilities to efficiently schedule, coordinate, and move fabrication orders through the facility to meet customer expectations. Coordinates shop activities with sales.

  • Instructs and monitors staff regarding safety issues. Ensures that the workplace is safe and in compliance with OSHA regulations and applicable fire codes.

  • Makes requests for repairs and equipment as needed for shop.

  • Ensures accurate and safe loading and unloading of trucks.

  • Manages inventory loss (scrap) through the production process. Monitors rebar inventory.

Nature and Scope

  • Solutions require analysis and investigation.

  • Achieves planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, business principles, and practical experience.

  • Manages a group or team of professional individual contributors and/or indirectly supervises support staff.

Work Environment

  • Usually located in a comfortable environment but with regular exposure to factors causing moderate physical discomfort, such as dust, fumes, or odors.

  • Most of the time is spent sitting in the same position or standing/walking and/or there is some requirement to lift or handle material or equipment of moderate weight (8-20 pounds).

  • Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Education and Experience

  • Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 7+ years of experience in a related field. May require certification. Advanced degree may offset less experience in some disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Basic understanding of Steel Fabrication and equipment

  • Team Player & willingness to take ownership of responsibilities.

  • Can guide, train, and teach individuals to grow

If you’re looking to play a role in building America, consider one of our open opportunities. We can’t wait to meet you.

Functional Area Field Operations

Work Type On-Site

Recruiter Lanaro, Gabriela

Req ID WCJR-036983

White Cap is an Equal Opportunity Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veteran and Affirmative Action Employer. White Cap considers for employment and hires qualified candidates without regard to age, race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,238 open Field Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$110–154K/yr366 salary ranges
  • US median$25–30/hr284 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 15 open Field Operations jobs in Indiana and 1,238 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Field Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (792 postings).
Education
109 of the 1,238 open Field Operations jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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