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Salt Lake City, Utah
Full time
Journeyman Sign Fabricator
YESCO is North America’s largest sign company, with over 100 years of experience designing, manufacturing, and installing some of the world’s most iconic signs, including the legendary “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. As a family-owned business, our legacy is built on craftsmanship, innovation, and a commitment to excellence. Our employees are industry leaders who value teamwork, creativity, and delivering exceptional quality to our customers. At YESCO, you’ll find a supportive environment where your skills are recognized, and your contributions help shape the future of our industry.
The Mission (General Purpose) This high-impact position is for a lead fabricator ready to step up and own complex projects. Under general supervision, you will fabricate high-quality sheet metal signs efficiently and effectively. You will also coordinate, delegate, and provide critical oversight on sheet metal projects, ensuring quality and meeting deadlines.
A Day in the Life (Key Responsibilities) As a Journeyman Sign Fabricator, you will work in a dynamic shop environment, using your skills and advanced metalworking machinery to bring iconic signs to life.
• Leadership & Coordination: Plan, coordinate, and delegate fabrication tasks to team members (helpers and apprentices) to ensure all department deadlines and expectations are consistently met.
• Precision Fabrication Review plans and diagrams for accuracy. Operate metal cutting and welding equipment to precisely create sign components, ensuring all cuts are consistent with job specifications.
• Welding & Assembly Operate welding equipment to join sign parts. Layout, bend, and shape materials for covering sign structures using brakes or by hand. Perform final assembly by drilling, riveting, screwing, or gluing sign parts together.
• Material Efficiency & Finishing: Plan and prepare materials to minimize waste. Conduct quality control checks, sand, grind, polish, and clean cut materials. Perform prepainting and wiring preparation, including cleaning and labeling of parts. Perform minor paint touch-ups and final detailing.
• Quality & Safety Implement and maintain rigorous quality control and safety standards throughout the material handling, cutting, and welding processes.
• Mentorship: Train and mentor sheet metal helpers and apprentices according to YESCO apprenticeship standards.
The Grind (Operational Support) • Shop Management: Oversee material inventory, ensuring the department has adequate parts and materials to complete projects. Oversee preventative maintenance and minor repairs for department equipment.
• Team Interface: Interact daily with employees and supervisors to discuss project status and coordination.
Required Skills & Qualifications To excel in this role, candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to craftsmanship, safety, and leadership.
• Experience: 4–5 years of demonstrated experience in Sign Fabrication or a closely related metal fabrication field.
• Certifications Must possess current 3G and 4G Welding Certifications, with demonstrated expertise in 3g aluminum welding.
• Technical Proficiency Ability to read, interpret, and apply detailed specification documents, government coding information, safety rules, and procedural manuals. Proficiency in geometric and algebraic calculations.
• Leadership & Communication Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to effectively communicate and supervise employees. Must be able to meet production goals while ensuring the highest quality standards.
• Physical Capability Ability to safely move materials, equipment, and completed projects. PHYSICAL/SENSORY DEMANDS: Work is typically performed indoors. Noise level in the work environment is usually loud. Must be able to move objects in excess of 40 lbs. Specific vision abilities include clarity of vision at 20 inches or less; and ability to bring an object into sharp focus.
Compliance Statement We maintain a drug-free workplace this includes Marijuana. Young Electric Sign Company is an EEO/AA employer. We welcome all qualified jobseekers. Jobseekers will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic data, religion or other legally protected status.
Since 1920 the signs and people of YESCO have set the standard for quality, innovation and customer service in the sign-making industry. YESCO offers signs of all types and sizes - from simple wayfinding plaques to towering spectaculars that spring to life in dazzling spectrums of color, animation and video.
The name YESCO has become synonymous with custom signs. Having created many of the world's most complex signs, we have the expertise, equipment and processes to produce multi-dimensional signs, displays and architectural elements that will add visual appeal and functionality to interior and exterior venues. YESCO offers financing.
YESCO Outdoor Media is one of the largest and oldest outdoor advertising companies in the Rocky Mountain West, operating 2,100 large-format bulletin displays that includes 42 strategically located eye-catching digital units. YESCO
is unparalleled in delivering high-impact, memorable impresses to today's mobile consumers.
YESCO offers a service franchise opportunity. These franchises make YESCO’s pacesetting sign and lighting maintenance and repair services even more convenient to customers in numerous geographic areas. As of early 2018 the company has awarded 144 territories across the Midwest, East Coast and Canada. Franchise owners benefit from YESCO's highly respected brand, marketing, purchasing power, proprietary technology and software solutions.
YESCO Financial Solutions provides financing to businesses who want to preserve their capital for higher-return investments while financing important, revenue generating projects.
Internationally recognized signs throughout the United States stand today as testaments to YESCO’s long history of excellence. Today, the company continues its tradition of innovative excellence – always with a focus on best-of-class customer service.
