Metal Fabrication Lead
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Compensation: $75,000 - $110,000
Dynamic landscape design firm in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley with a diverse portfolio and a commitment to sustainable practices is seeking a Metal Fabrication Lead to contribute to our diverse staff of designers, fabricators, and gardeners. We design, fabricate, and install award-winning landscapes for institutions, new construction, and high-end residential projects. This job includes fabricating, finishing, and installing high-end custom metal and wood garden elements. Our goal is to achieve a high level of craft in a safe, productive, and equitable work environment.
Responsibilities/Duties
- Execute a wide range of technically-challenging, high-end metal garden elements – including benches, pergolas, fences, edging, amongst others
- Oversee fabrication, finishing and installation of metal elements
- Ensure that working methods are efficient and adhered to by staff
- Attend weekly staff meetings to discuss upcoming schedule and work flow
- Review and build from detailed architectural and shop drawings
- Review project details & specifications
- Review of shop drawing plans, sections, and details
- Collaborate with design staff on detailing, proto-typing and mockups
- Work with project managers to calculate the size and amount of material needed for projects
- Work with construction manager to ensure appropriate materials and quantities are ordered and delivered on time
- Manage metal shop fabrication schedule to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget
- Work with project & wood shop managers to facilitate production of project elements
- Help to analyze opportunities for value engineering and comparable product substitutions
- Operate metal working tools safely and efficiently
- Responsible for inventory of tools and materials at the shop
- Oversee safety within the shop, including setting safety standards and standard operating procedures
Qualifications/Requirements
- Ten or more years of experience working in architectural metalworking
- Knowledge of tools, equipment, and materials common to the metalworking trade
- Experience reading and building from technical drawings
- Dependable, hard-working, versatile, and flexible
- Ability to work within a team and independently
- Ability to lift 50lbs
- Can weld MIG/TIG/Grind; Brass/Bronze, Stainless, HR/CR Steel, Aluminum
Additional Information
At the forefront of a national design movement focusing on establishing place and identity through ecological design, Future Green’s work focuses on innovative strategies of integrating landscape into the built environment. We are a unique company, engaging in both speculative, urban, large scale landscape urbanism projects as well as small scale garden and art interventions.
Please email info@futuregreenstudio.com with your resume and portfolio. No calls please.
Future Green is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Contact Information
Future Green Studio
Contact Name: Future Green Studio
Email: info@futuregreenstudio.com