Job Description

Overview

As an Integration Supervisor, you will lead the team responsible for the final assembly, integration, testing, and quality assurance before delivery to defense customers. This hands-on leadership role requires strong technical judgment and organizational discipline in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and supervise a team of technicians and engineers responsible for final assembly, integration, testing, and quality assurance.
  • Oversee daily final integration activities to ensure products are completed safely, on schedule, and to specification.
  • Coordinate final system assembly and integration of mechanical, electrical, software, and other system components.
  • Ensure all hardware and software components are properly configured, integrated, and functioning as intended.
  • Establish and maintain clear build plans, work instructions, checklists, and standard operating procedures.
  • Coordinate testing and inspection activities and ensure all required performance and safety tests are completed prior to shipment.
  • Partner with Quality to enforce inspection processes, monitor quality metrics, and drive corrective actions.
  • Lead troubleshooting and corrective efforts when issues arise, ensuring problems are resolved without compromising quality or delivery timelines.
  • Work closely with Engineering to identify and resolve technical issues encountered during integration and testing.
  • Track production progress, identify schedule risks, and take action to keep builds on track.
  • Ensure all manufacturing, inspection, and testing activities are accurately documented and traceable.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to improve throughput, reduce defects, and increase production efficiency.
  • Implement Lean manufacturing and standard work practices across the integration operation.
  • Ensure team members consistently follow safety requirements, quality standards, and manufacturing procedures.
  • Train, mentor, and develop technicians and other team members to build a high-performing production organization.
  • Support the development and scaling of integration processes as production volumes increase.
  • Ensure final products meet applicable DoD requirements, customer expectations, and internal quality standards.

How this job compares in Grand Prairie, TX

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, lead welder jobs across Texas currently run a median of $32/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $29–$37/hr across 13 postings with published pay. That median is a reasonable floor to anchor on when a recruiter asks what you're looking for.

The local market in Grand Prairie, TX

We're tracking 34 other active welding openings in Grand Prairie, TX right now, from 17 different employers. 10 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,256 other active welding openings from 597 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Grand Prairie, or widen the search to Texas.

Judge Consulting Group currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (29), Welding Shop in Austin, TX (27), and Zachry Group (23). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Texas, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Midlothian at $38/hr, Irving at $38/hr, and Pasadena at $37/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Integration Supervisor figures were last recalculated when this page was built.