Job Description

Overview

Frazier Industrial Company is seeking a Welding Supervisor (CWS) to oversee daily welding operations in a structural steel manufacturing environment. The role involves direct leadership of welding personnel, ensuring production schedules are met while maintaining high standards of safety and quality.

Responsibilities

  • Establish daily work assignments, production priorities, and staffing requirements.
  • Monitor production performance, quality requirements, machine utilization, and labor efficiency.
  • Coordinate equipment setups, changeovers, and production sequencing.
  • Ensure welding operations are performed in accordance with approved engineering drawings and specifications.
  • Identify and resolve production bottlenecks and operational challenges.
  • Coordinate with Maintenance for equipment repairs and preventive maintenance.
  • Provide supervision, coaching, and performance management to assigned personnel.
  • Participate in employee selection, onboarding, training, and performance evaluations.
  • Identify employee training needs and coordinate cross-training.
  • Ensure effective communication of daily priorities and operational changes.
  • Ensure welded components meet established specifications.
  • Partner with Quality and Engineering to investigate nonconforming products.
  • Ensure departmental compliance with safety policies and regulations.
  • Reinforce proper use of personal protective equipment and safe practices.
  • Participate in incident investigations and corrective action implementation.
  • Maintain clean, organized, and safe work areas.
  • Perform additional duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years’ experience in welding, machining, or heavy industrial manufacturing.
  • 2-3 years’ experience supervising or leading welding and/or fabrication teams.
  • A CWS certification issued by the American Welding Society is highly preferred.
  • Strong working knowledge of MIG/GMAW and flux-cored/FCAW welding processes.
  • Familiarity with applicable AWS welding standards and welding procedure specifications.
  • Experience working with robotic or automated welding equipment.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach employees and maintain team accountability.
  • Good verbal and written skills in English.
  • Ability to effectively utilize applications such as Excel, Word, and Microsoft Outlook.
  • Solid organizational skills to balance changing priorities.
  • High level of accuracy in basic math and use of a 10 key calculator.
  • Ability to read and interpret blueprints and technical specifications.
  • Reliable attendance and onsite presence.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • The work schedule is generally Monday – Thursday, with occasional Fridays, nights, and weekends as required.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO

How this job compares in Grand Prairie, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $43/hr, this posting sits about 27% above the $34/hr median for welding jobs in Grand Prairie, TX — toward the top of a $28–$39/hr middle band drawn from 13 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 92% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Grand Prairie, TX

We're tracking 37 other active welding openings in Grand Prairie, TX right now, from 20 different employers. 10 of them were added in the last week. Across Texas as a whole we're tracking 1,245 other active welding openings from 548 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.

The most active employers in Texas at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Austin Industries (39), Zachry Group (30), and Welding Shop in Houston, TX (22). 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 Old Sixth Ward at $40/hr, Arlington at $39/hr, and Dallas at $36/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for MIG and Flux-Core 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. Flux-cored (FCAW) runs a hollow wire filled with flux, combining MIG-like deposition rates with the outdoor tolerance of stick. It is the workhorse on heavy structural steel and shipbuilding, where thick sections and long welds reward speed.

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

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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 Supervisor (CWS) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.