Welder Foreman - DBK

PetroSea; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PetroSea is seeking a Welder Supervisor to lead and coordinate welding activities on mining sites, ensuring work is performed to high technical standards and safety practices.

The role requires at least 1 year of welding leadership experience in mining, plus knowledge of welding equipment, fabrication practices, and production planning. Fluent English is preferred and willingness to work on site.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year welding experience in mining in a leadership role.
• Ability to operate welding machines and related equipment.
• Understanding of structural repairs and fatigue patterns and welding procedures.
• Knowledge of production targets and equipment availability planning.
• Fluent English (spoken and written) is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and coordinate daily welding activities to ensure technical accuracy and efficiency.
• Assist with development and preventive measures for failure trends.
• Plan welder activities, tools, spare parts, and manpower.
• Prepare and submit required reporting and work order details.
• Review failures and advise on safety and major risks.

Skills

Welding leadership

Welding equipment operation

Fabrication practices

Production planning

English language

Education

High school graduate with mechanical engineering

Tools

Welding machines

Fabrication tools

Job description

• Monitor and coordinate welding daily activities to ensure welding work are performed in a technically correct and efficient manner, and assist with development and preventative measures, for repeat or ongoing failure trends within relevant department areas, in order to conform to company's standard and policies.

Job Responsibilities

Key

Metric

Responsible for compliance to weekly and monthly planning, including scheduled work orders, relating to all maintenance tasks set out daily / to help achieve long term maintenance plans and high equipment availability. Long term maintenance plans and high equipment availability are successfully achieved.

Plan and supervise welder activities regarding tools requirement, spare parts, and consumable goods and also manpower planning in establishment, maintenance, and repairmen of site. Welder activities regarding tools requirement, spare parts, and consumable goods and also manpower planning in establishment, maintenance, and repairmen of site are accurately planned and supervised.

Prepare and submit relevant reporting tasks required in a timely manner, example, review and ensure correct details on work orders and regularly submit to planners for closing, ensure backlog parts are ordered. Relevant reporting tasks required are prepared and submitted in a timely manner.

Review and analyse failures to plant. By Monitoring of trends and report pending equipment failure for correct planning into backlog, advising immediately if equipment is unsafe to operate or high potential of major failure occurring. Failures are successfully corrected and prevented.

Maintain and actively implement SHE programs and responsibility (involve identify, mitigate and monitor SHE risk), including SHE Management System to ensure the effectiveness of the programs conform to official standard, requirements and procedure applied and to confirm the execution of the SHE Responsibility meet the intended outcome - SHE risk well maintained
- Target Zero LTI
- SHE Management System meets the current ISO 14001, ISO 45001, SMK3 & SMKP standards and requirements

Education

High School Graduate of Mechanical Engineering

Skill, Knowledge, and Experience

• Min 1 year experience as a Welder in mining industry in leadership role
• Qualifications and certificates in field of trade / required duties
• Fully understand and be able to operate welding machines and others welding equipment
• Understand structural repairs and fatigue patterns, following correct fabrication practices and welding procedures.
• Understanding of business line requirements and production targets.
• Understanding of equipment availability and planning of repairs.
• Fluent in English, bothspoken and written is an advantage

Certification

• If candidates do not meet the requirements specified in the Education section, evaluation shall be conducted in accordance with KKNI Level 5.

Other Requirements