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Overview

Kinsley Steel has been delivering unmatched quality steel since 1985, specializing in structural steel design, engineering, detailing, fabrication, erection, and retrofit. The Structural Steel Ironworker Foreman is responsible for site leadership, manpower and equipment planning, supervising, ensuring safety, and meeting project schedules.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure safety precautions are followed
  • Complete jobs on time and within budget
  • Hold a documented site safety meeting on a weekly basis
  • Complete a 3-week look-a-head schedule on a weekly basis
  • Attend all on-site project meetings (safety, quality, scheduling, production, etc.)
  • Issue corrective action notices as required, to enforce company and/or project guidelines/policies
  • Read specifications and blueprints to determine the locations, quantities, and sizes of materials required

Requirements

  • Ability to speak and understand English in oral and written form
  • Knowledge of proper rigging and signaling
  • Knowledge of applicable and proper use for transit, laser level, torpedo, torque guns, welders, gas supplied equipment, rigging and components
  • Knowledge of AISC
  • Establish and maintain effective and professional working relationships

Additional Information

  • Kinsley Steel, Inc. is a Drug Free Workplace where post-offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for certain substances.
  • Kinsley Steel, Inc. is a participant in the Federal E-Verify Program.
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How this job compares in Jenkintown, PA

Pay in context

This employer didn't publish a rate. For reference, structural welder jobs across Pennsylvania currently run a median of $28/hr in our index, with the middle half of them falling between $28–$35/hr across 12 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 Jenkintown, PA

Jenkintown, PA is a small market in our index: 2 other active welding openings alongside this one, from 2 employers. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 286 other active welding openings from 186 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Phillips Tank & Structure (8), Greene Tweed (7), and TradeWorx (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

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