Supervisor – Plater - Job Description
Supervisor
Location: Site Based
Position Summary
The Supervisor – Plater oversees the activities of plater teams, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality plating, fabrication, and installation work on site. This role enforces company and legislative standards for safety, quality, and operational processes, while meeting project contractual requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Allocate, plan, and monitor plating and fabrication tasks for team members to achieve required performance and productivity levels.
- Communicate work instructions and site objectives clearly and directly to the team.
- Monitor worksite safety by implementing and enforcing risk assessments, method statements, permit to work systems, and safety procedures.
- Deliver toolbox talks and share safety information, toolbox topics, and site-specific safety messages.
- Drive the completion of work scopes, ensuring tasks meet schedule, safety, and quality standards.
- Supervise adherence to critical task procedures and contract requirements at all stages of work.
- Maintain hazard awareness, report safety issues, and reinforce safe behaviors using error prevention tools.
- Use improvement observation processes to identify and report opportunities for safer or more efficient work practices.
- Conduct post-job assessments and contribute to lessons learned and best practice sharing.
- Monitor, review, and record team performance and productivity, reporting progress as required.
- Assist engineers and other supervisors in planning and delivering operational methods to meet project requirements.
- Identify and address disciplinary, grievance, or performance management issues within the team.
- Liaise with internal stakeholders, subcontractors, and regulators to resolve technical, safety, or quality matters.
- Estimate, order, and manage plating, fabrication, and mechanical consumables and equipment for work scopes.
- Ensure traceability of materials, plant items, and consumables used.
- Coach and mentor team members to support development and ongoing competency.
- Promote a positive safety culture and compliance with all site and company policies and standards.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- General education to at least high school level.
- Completed full apprenticeship in a plating or relevant fabrication trade or equivalent vocational qualification.
- Hold a valid safety passport or completion of relevant site safety training.
- Have a recognized supervisory management qualification or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrate at least three years’ advanced hands-on experience as a plater, with at least one year of supervisory or chargehand experience.
- Possess significant experience in plating or fabrication within industrial, manufacturing, thermal, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, or nuclear environments.
- Understand and apply safety, quality, and operational requirements in a site environment.
- Display sound knowledge of human performance and continuous improvement principles for site operations.
- Demonstrate the ability to estimate material requirements and manage on-site resources.
- Show a track record in coaching and mentoring team members for ongoing competence and safety awareness.
Key Competencies
- Work collaboratively with team members, showing respect and effective listening to build trust.
- Lead by example, adapting to change and translating new goals into effective actions.
- Identify process problems and drive continual improvement in safety, productivity, and quality.
- Communicate effectively and professionally with internal and external stakeholders.
- Act decisively and consistently in line with operational decisions and site objectives.
Additional Requirements
- Participate in required company and human performance training.
- Demonstrate strong hazard awareness and proactive safety behavior at all times.
- Handle challenges in work allocation, material management, and team development.
- Promote ongoing improvement in safety, cost efficiency, and productivity through positive engagement and reporting.
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