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Premier Global Links

Welding Production Supervisor

Location

Chicago, IL

Wage

$70,000 – $80,000/yr

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

MIG WeldingTIG Welding
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Posted on September 1, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Premier Global Links LLC is seeking an experienced Production Supervisor to lead daily manufacturing operations with primary responsibility for the Welding Department. This role oversees MIG, TIG, and robotic welding operations while ensuring production schedules, quality standards, safety requirements, and delivery goals are consistently achieved.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise daily production with primary oversight of welding operations.
  • Manage MIG, TIG, and robotic welding activities and downstream production processes.
  • Ensure production schedules, quality requirements, and delivery commitments are met.
  • Balance labor and workflow to maintain throughput and minimize bottlenecks.
  • Monitor KPIs including productivity, efficiency, scrap, rework, and on-time delivery.
  • Partner with Quality, Planning, Maintenance, and other departments to resolve production issues.
  • Support weld quality initiatives, inspections, troubleshooting, and corrective actions.
  • Ensure compliance with applicable OSHA, AWS, ASME, ISO, and company safety and quality requirements.
  • Promote proper PPE use, safe welding practices, ventilation, and workplace safety.
  • Hire, train, coach, and develop welders, operators, and production employees.
  • Manage staffing, scheduling, attendance, overtime, and performance.
  • Lead Lean Manufacturing initiatives including 5S, waste reduction, workflow improvement, and cross-training.
  • Identify opportunities to improve weld cell utilization, arc-on time, productivity, and reduce rework.
  • Maintain accurate production records and reporting.
  • Support equipment improvements and process enhancement projects.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED.
  • 5+ years of manufacturing experience with significant exposure to welding operations.
  • 2+ years of production supervisory experience.
  • Strong working knowledge of MIG, TIG, and robotic welding.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints and weld symbols.
  • Strong leadership, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • 2nd Shift: Monday–Friday, 3:45 PM–1:15 AM
  • This position requires regular time on the manufacturing floor and may involve exposure to heat, noise, and welding environments.
  • Occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds may be required.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Chicago, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $36/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $36/hr median for welding jobs in Chicago, IL, whose middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 34 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 59% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Chicago, IL

We're tracking 50 other active welding openings in Chicago, IL right now, from 31 different employers. 2 of them were added in the last week. Across Illinois as a whole we're tracking 238 other active welding openings from 160 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Chicago, or widen the search to Illinois.

The most active employers in Illinois at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Staff on Site (13), S&C Electric Company (11), and Gerber Collision & Glass (7). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Illinois, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Chicago at $36/hr, Peoria at $31/hr, and South Beloit at $24/hr. Chicago is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and TIG work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

See all lead welder openings if you want to compare this against similar roles.

Certifications this posting mentions

  • ASME Section IX — the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code qualification. It covers welding on pressure-retaining equipment — boilers, vessels, and process piping — where a failed weld is a safety incident rather than a rework ticket.

Read straight from this posting's text. Confirm the exact qualification the employer wants before you test — requirements vary by shop even under the same code.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Welding Production Supervisor figures were last recalculated when this page was built.