Valve Services Manager
Apply NowCompany: AWC
Location: Freeport, TX 77541
Description:
We are seeking individuals with boundless energy, unwavering persistence, and an appetite for learning. We value individuals who approach challenges with enthusiasm and creativity. If you're ready to embark on a journey of continuous growth and contribute to meaningful solutions, we want you on our team.
The Valve Services Manager role plays a pivotal role in managing all aspects of valve and service orders, from coordination to execution as well as overall team management. Your responsibilities will encompass various facets of our Valve Division, including new valves, parts, repair, automation, and field services. The Valve Service Manager will also play a key role in managing customer relationships, ensuring that their needs are met, and that the shop operates safely, efficiently and profitably. The successful candidate must be innovative, passionate, and resourceful while demonstrating technical skills.
How you'll make an impact:
Skills you'll need:
Here's what will set you apart:
The Rewards
About AWC
As employee-owners, we seek to develop fulfilling careers by pushing ourselves to deliver better, safer, more effective automation solutions. We do this through strategically partnering with the world's most-recognized brands to help engineering, reliability, and maintenance teams solve problems effectively. Our team of over 600 employee-owners embrace innovative and creative methods to expand our expertise while providing genuine value to our customers and technology partners.
How We Win Together
We are committed to solving customer problems and are looking for team members that want to be a trusted resource to those looking for a partner who out-knows, out-cares, and out-serves everyone else. Every day, we strive to deliver on our mission to empower people to make the greatest positive impact for the communities and families we serve together. Our Winning Together culture starts with a shared commitment to building an environment of inclusiveness, trust, and mutual respect. We know that when people like you are safe to pursue your passions, to learn, to serve, and to share in the rewards from our combined efforts, then we are winning together.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
The Valve Services Manager role plays a pivotal role in managing all aspects of valve and service orders, from coordination to execution as well as overall team management. Your responsibilities will encompass various facets of our Valve Division, including new valves, parts, repair, automation, and field services. The Valve Service Manager will also play a key role in managing customer relationships, ensuring that their needs are met, and that the shop operates safely, efficiently and profitably. The successful candidate must be innovative, passionate, and resourceful while demonstrating technical skills.
How you'll make an impact:
- Schedule and organize work and workflow
- Supervise a team of valve technicians, providing guidance, training, and mentorship
- Conduct performance evaluations and provide feedback to team members
- Oversee the repair, maintenance, and testing of industrial valves to ensure quality and compliance with specifications
- Complete inspections and quality checks to maintain high standards
- Address and resolve any quality issues that arise during the repair process
- Maintain communication with customers regarding repair status, timelines, and issues
- Collaborate with sales and customer service teams to ensure customer satisfaction
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency while ensuring adherence to safety, quality, and service standards.
- Coordinate with inventory management to maintain proper stock levels
- Manage shop floor expenses and contribute to budget management
- Prepare reports on shop floor performance, including quality, safety, and productivity metrics
- Maintain service calendar and technician assignments, ensuring timely job completion.
- Ensuring team meets all customer required safety training requirements
Skills you'll need:
- Proven experience in a supervisory role in a valve shop or similar industrial repair facility
- Strong leadership and team management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of industrial valves and related equipment
- Understanding of safety regulations and quality standards
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to read and Interpret dimensional drawings and prints
- Have a working knowledge of relief and safety valves
- Know how a relief valve operates
- Have a working knowledge of ASME, NBIC and applicable API codes
- Minimum of 8 plus years of valve repair, testing, reconditioning or modification
Here's what will set you apart:
- Knowledge of material flow within shop operations
- Technical Industrial degree
The Rewards
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- 401(K) Match
- Competitive Pay
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Package
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
- Career Development Opportunities
About AWC
As employee-owners, we seek to develop fulfilling careers by pushing ourselves to deliver better, safer, more effective automation solutions. We do this through strategically partnering with the world's most-recognized brands to help engineering, reliability, and maintenance teams solve problems effectively. Our team of over 600 employee-owners embrace innovative and creative methods to expand our expertise while providing genuine value to our customers and technology partners.
How We Win Together
We are committed to solving customer problems and are looking for team members that want to be a trusted resource to those looking for a partner who out-knows, out-cares, and out-serves everyone else. Every day, we strive to deliver on our mission to empower people to make the greatest positive impact for the communities and families we serve together. Our Winning Together culture starts with a shared commitment to building an environment of inclusiveness, trust, and mutual respect. We know that when people like you are safe to pursue your passions, to learn, to serve, and to share in the rewards from our combined efforts, then we are winning together.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)