Structural Fitter Supervisor

Role Overview

Structural Fitter Supervisor at McDermott. The role oversees daily activities of structural fitting teams within a fabrication environment.

Company Overview

McDermott is a global company with more than 100 years of history, operating across 54 countries with more than 30,000 employees. The company specializes in subsea infrastructure, offshore platforms, offshore wind infrastructure, and onshore energy delivery, working across the energy value chain.

Role Purpose

The Structural Fitter Supervisor leads and coordinates structural fitting and fabrication activities to support safe, efficient, and high-quality work execution. The role assigns work, monitors team performance, ensures structural components are assembled and fitted in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, schedules, and quality requirements, provides technical guidance, develops team capability, and collaborates with relevant stakeholders to resolve execution issues and achieve productivity targets.

Key Responsibilities

Workforce Management

• Assign work to team members and clearly communicate scope, priorities, productivity targets, quality expectations, and completion requirements.
• Verify that team members possess the required training, qualifications, and competencies for assigned activities.
• Coach and develop team members to improve technical capability, safety awareness, quality performance, and productivity.
• Promote a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative work environment that supports accountability and effective teamwork.
• Ensure team members use approved tools, equipment, lifting devices, and personal protective equipment correctly and safely.

Time and Records Management

• Ensure team members submit accurate daily time entries in the MyTime system, and review and approve time entries in accordance with established approval workflows.
• Maintain accurate records of workforce allocation, completed work, productivity, inspections, material usage, and identified issues.

Operations and Work Execution

• Supervise daily structural fitting and fabrication activities in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, work instructions, schedules, and quality requirements.
• Review fabrication drawings, specifications, material requirements, and work instructions before commencing assigned activities.
• Coordinate the availability and effective use of labor, materials, tools, and equipment to support efficient work execution.
• Monitor work progress, productivity, workmanship, and schedule performance, and implement corrective actions when required.

Quality and Dimensional Control

• Provide technical guidance on structural fabrication, component preparation, assembly, alignment, fit-up, and dimensional control.
• Verify the dimensions, alignment, orientation, and fit-up of structural components against applicable technical requirements.
• Ensure materials remain properly identified, segregated, protected, and traceable throughout fabrication activities.

Safety and Compliance

• Conduct routine worksite inspections to verify compliance with safety, quality, housekeeping, and operational requirements.
• Promote compliance with applicable company policies, industry standards, safety requirements, quality procedures, and the Code of Business Conduct.
• Participate in work planning, coordination meetings, toolbox talks, risk assessments, and quality reviews.

Issue Resolution and Coordination

• Identify and resolve technical, material, equipment, and workforce issues that may affect safety, quality, productivity, or schedule performance.
• Coordinate with engineering, quality, project management, and other disciplines to resolve technical issues and support integrated work execution.
• Communicate work status, constraints, risks, and resource requirements to the appropriate stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement opportunities to improve fabrication methods, workflow, resource utilization, safety, quality, and productivity.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant technical and supervisory experience is required.
• Relevant technical, vocational, or trade qualification in structural fitting, fabrication, construction, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Extensive experience in structural fitting, fabrication, or related construction activities is required.
• Previous experience supervising structural fitting or fabrication teams is required.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong knowledge of structural fabrication, component preparation, assembly, alignment, fit-up, and dimensional control is required.
• Ability to read and interpret fabrication drawings, technical specifications, material requirements, work instructions, and schedules is required.
• Knowledge of applicable industry standards, codes, quality requirements, and safe work practices is required.
• Experience coordinating workforce, materials, tools, equipment, and work priorities in a fabrication environment is required.
• Ability to identify technical and operational issues, evaluate available information, and implement practical solutions is required.
• Strong leadership, communication, planning, coordination, and decision-making skills are required.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, quality, project management, clients, and other discipline stakeholders is required.
• Ability to monitor safety, quality, productivity, and schedule performance while managing changing operational priorities is required.
• Relevant competency certifications for structural fitting, rigging, lifting, or equipment operation are preferred, where applicable.