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Job Description

Overview

Lead sheet metal installation crews on active construction projects, turning drawings and schedules into safe, high-quality work. This hands-on foreman role combines crew management, field coordination, and clear communication with project teams.

Responsibilities

  • Direct daily work, assign tasks, and supervise sheet metal crews.
  • Coordinate with other trades to support construction schedules.
  • Review blueprints and construction drawings, interpret technical details, and resolve field questions with project management.
  • Monitor installation quality, progress, materials, and budgets.
  • Support project scheduling and schedule coordination.
  • Enforce construction safety management practices, OSHA requirements, and applicable federal construction safety regulations.

Requirements

  • 5 years construction experience, at least 2 years as a foreman, including commercial construction site experience.
  • Supervising experience and experience managing teams in a construction management role.
  • Skills in blueprint reading, construction drawing review, interpreting technical drawings, quality control, crew management, and construction project management.
  • Knowledge of construction management, contracts, budgeting, construction scheduling, and managerial communication.
  • Familiarity with construction management software, project scheduling, and pipeline coordination; experience with Primavera or Primavera P6 is useful.
  • OSHA and construction safety knowledge required; familiarity with an ohmmeter is a plus.

Additional Information

  • Pay: $30.00 - $45.00 per hour
  • Work Location: In person
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How this job compares in Buffalo, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 17% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs across New York — toward the top of a $27–$41/hr middle band drawn from 106 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 67% 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 Buffalo, NY

Buffalo, NY currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 5 employers. 3 of them were added in the last week. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 157 other active welding openings from 104 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Buffalo, or widen the search to New York.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (20), Cushman & Wakefield (5), and Con Edison (4). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $41/hr, Brooklyn at $30/hr, and Buffalo at $27/hr. Buffalo is among them.

Similar openings near Buffalo, NY

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