Millwright Foreman Multi-Craft Maryville, TN

EMCOR Group, Inc.; Maryville (TN); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Cherokee Millwright is seeking a Multi-Craft Millwright Foreman for its Operations team in Maryville, TN. The role focuses on hands‑on work with oversight of installation, dismantling, and movement of heavy machinery according to layouts and blueprints. The position requires cross‑training across millwright, pipefitting, welding, and related trades.

The Foreman will plan schedules, supervise a crew, manage tool inventories, and ensure compliance with safety and quality standards on site.

Qualifications

• Requires a high school diploma or GED, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read blueprints and schematics to determine work procedures.
• Supervises a crew, plans, assigns, and directs work; ensures safety and quality on site.

Responsibilities

• Plan and assign daily work for a crew of 1 to 12 employees based on priorities.
• Monitor performance and review work levels and tool inventories.
• Read blueprints and layouts to install, dismantle, or move machinery and equipment.
• Lead safety trainings and coordinate with supervision for incidents.
• Assemble and install equipment and foundations, align with precision using measuring tools.
• Operate forklifts and equipment like hoists, dollies, and rollers as required.
• Maintain and repair machinery and perform routine lubrication and servicing.

Skills

Team leadership

Scheduling

Blueprint reading

Machinery installation

Safety training

Troubleshooting

Forklift operation

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Hoist

Dollies

Rollers

Airbags

Fork trucks

Welding equipment

Job description

About Us

Our capabilities cover a full suite of millwrighting services, including installing, setting, aligning, and leveling machinery and equipment, as well as dismantling, refurbishing, reassembling, and moving. Additionally, our expertise covers close tolerance and precision alignment, as well as fabrication, concrete construction, and industrial HVAC solutions.

Job Summary

Job Title: Multi-Craft Millwright Foreman Department: Operations Reports To: General Superintendent/Project Manager FLSA Status: Non-exempt Summary: At Cherokee Millwright, we are a multi-craft company that focuses on the needs of our customers by providing multi-trades personnel to meet the customer’s unique job requests. Therefore, all field employees will be cross-trained in various trades such as millwrighting, pipefitting, welding, sheet metal, civil, etc. The focus of this position will be with hands‑on work with the additional oversight of the installation, dismantle, or movement of machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans, rigging plans, blueprints, or other drawings by performing the following duties. However, it will not be entirely set to this specific skillset. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 1. Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment and skill of personnel.
• 2. Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
• 3. Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of job site to ensure adequate working conditions.
• 4. Examine objects, systems, or facilities, and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.
• 5. Reports accidents, near misses, and injuries to office supervision and actively cooperates with investigations.
• 6. Compile operational and personnel data, such as time worked, jobs worked, inventory data, equipment used, repair and maintenance information.
• 7. Reports to office supervision concerns with employees’ work‑related issues and provides mentoring to employees to correct job‑skill deficiencies.
• 8. Conduct on the job training or arrange for worker training in safety or equipment use.
• 9. Reads blueprints and schematic drawings to determine work procedures.
• 10. Dismantles machines.
• 11. Moves machinery and equipment, using hoist, dollies, rollers, airbags, and fork trucks.
• 12. Assembles and installs equipment such as shafting, conveyors, and tram rails.
• 13. Constructs foundation for machines; insert shims, adjust tension on nuts and bolts, or position parts, using hand tools and measuring instruments, to set specified clearances between moving and stationary parts.
• 14. Aligns machines and equipment, using hoist, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.
• 15. Assembles machines, and bolts, welds, rivets, or otherwise fastens them to foundation or other structures.
• 16. Repairs and lubricates machines and equipment.
• 17. Uses various hand tools, power tools, torches, and welders.
• 18. Operates Forklifts, Scissor Lifts, and Boom Lifts.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Oversee the daily work assignments of a crew of one to 12 employees. Reports out to office supervision the performance of the crew in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; addressing complaints/resolving problems and/or reporting those to office supervision for assistance.

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or four to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. This would include duties and responsibilities working on, but not limited to millwright, pipefitting, welding, sheet metal, mechanical, and rigging projects.

We offer our employees a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package and are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As a leading provider of mechanical and electrical construction, facilities services, and energy infrastructure, we offer employees a competitive salary and benefits package and we are always looking for individuals with the talent and skills required to contribute to our continued growth and success. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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