Job Ref: # 7314386
Date Posted: 9/9/2025
City, State: Sterling, VA
Salary (USD): $35 - $45
Description
About the Role
Seeking a Welding Shop Team Lead to join our welding and fabrication department in a precision-driven aerospace
manufacturing environment. This leadership role is critical to ensuring
high-quality welds, compliance with aerospace welding specifications, and
efficient daily operations within the welding department.
manufacturing environment. This leadership role is critical to ensuring
high-quality welds, compliance with aerospace welding specifications, and
efficient daily operations within the welding department.
If you are a natural leader who
motivates your team through positive reinforcement, identifies opportunities
for process improvement, and drives implementation, we want to hear from you.
motivates your team through positive reinforcement, identifies opportunities
for process improvement, and drives implementation, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate a team of
welders in the production of aerospace components and assemblies. - Interpret and enforce welding
standards, including AWS D17.1 (Aerospace), D1.1 (Structural Steel), D1.2
(Aluminum), and D1.6 (Stainless Steel). - Ensure all welds meet customer,
regulatory, and industry requirements, including customer-specific quality
standards. - Conduct weld inspections and
quality checks, ensuring adherence to welding procedures (WPS/PQR). - Provide hands-on training,
mentorship, and skill development for welding personnel. - Manage shop scheduling,
prioritize work orders, and allocate labor to meet production deadlines. - Maintain accurate production
records, inspection reports, and documentation. - Collaborate with Engineering,
Quality Assurance, and Project Management teams on job planning and
execution. - Support audits and compliance
checks, including AS9100 requirements. - Maintain a safe and organized
work environment in accordance with OSHA standards.
Qualifications
- Technical or vocational training
in welding/fabrication. - Certified Welding Inspector (CWI) – Required.
- Experience in an AS9100 or NADCAP
certified facility. - Minimum 7–10 years of welding
experience, with at least 5 years in a supervisory or foreman role. - Experience working with aluminum,
stainless steel, steel, and alloy steel. - Certification in one or more of
the following: AWS D17.1, D1.1, D1.2, D1.6. - Proficient in GTAW (TIG), GMAW
(MIG), Spot Welding, and other welding processes used in aerospace
fabrication.
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