Millwright jobs in Knoxville, TN

Job Title: Multi-Craft Millwright Foreman
Department: Operations
Reports To: General Superintendent/Project Manager
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
Summary: At Cherokee Millwright, we are a multi-craft company that focuses on the needs of our customers by providing multi-trades personnel to meet the customer’s unique job requests. Therefore, all field employees will be cross-trained in various trades such as millwrighting, pipefitting, welding, sheet metal, civil, etc. The focus of this position will be with hands-on work with the additional oversight of the installation, dismantle, or movement of machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans, rigging plans, blueprints, or other drawings by performing the following duties. However, it will not be entirely set to this specific skillset.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities, based on work priority, quantity of equipment and skill of personnel.
2. Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
3. Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of job site to ensure adequate working conditions.
4. Examine objects, systems, or facilities, and analyze information to determine needed installations, services, or repairs.
5. Reports accidents, near misses, and injuries to office supervision and actively cooperates with investigations.
6. Compile operational and personnel data, such as time worked, jobs worked, inventory data, equipment used, repair and maintenance information.
7. Reports to office supervision concerns with employees’ work-related issues and provides mentoring to employees to correct job-skill deficiencies.
8. Conduct on the job training or arrange for worker training in safety or equipment use.
9. Reads blueprints and schematic drawings to determine work procedures.
10. Dismantles machines.
11. Moves machinery and equipment, using hoist, dollies, rollers, airbags, and fork trucks.
12. Assembles and installs equipment such as shafting, conveyors, and tram rails.
13. Constructs foundation for machines; insert shims, adjust tension on nuts and bolts, or position parts, using hand tools and measuring instruments, to set specified clearances between moving and stationary parts.
14. Aligns machines and equipment, using hoist, jacks, hand tools, squares, rules, micrometers, and plumb bobs.
15. Assembles machines, and bolts, welds, rivets, or otherwise fastens them to foundation or other structures.
16. Repairs and lubricates machines and equipment.
17. Uses various hand tools, power tools, torches, and welders.
18. Operates Forklifts, Scissor Lifts, and Boom Lifts.
19. Additional skills in other crafts will be necessary to meet our customers need and will be expected in this role.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Oversees the daily work assignments of a crew of one to 12 employees. Reports out to office supervision the performance of the crew in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; addressing complaints/resolving problems and/or reporting those to office supervision for assistance.
Education and/or Experience:
High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or four to five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Cherokee Millwright
Job Description
Updated 08/2022 Multi-CraftMillwrightForeman.Job Description
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is
occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and
/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. This would include duties and responsibilities working on, but not limited to millwright, pipefitting, welding, sheet metal, mechanical, and rigging projects.

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