Colin Bills

Planning, scheduling, and managing all shop fabrication activities.
Coordinating with engineers and designers to understand project requirements.
Assessing project and resource requirements.
Ensuring safety regulations and standard procedures are followed.
Overseeing quality control of products and processes.
Managing inventory and ordering materials and supplies as needed.
Delegating fabricators to specific tasks.
Interpreting blueprints, specifications, and job orders to workers, and assigning duties accordingly.
Inspecting materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
Training, and supervising inexperienced fabricators.

Reading and interpreting engineering blueprints
Fabricating metal components or structures

Working with a variety of specialty tooling
Performing quality checks on finished products
Setting up fabricating machines and designing custom templates

Operating heavy machinery

Producing patterns or moulds for metal castings
Applying coatings

Operated and maintained multiple specialty metal fabrication tools

Maintained clean driving record while hauling oversized/fragile loads over long distances