Role design and job descriptions for Door and Window Manufacturers: measurer, fabricator and installer
A door or window passes from measurer to cutter to fabricator to installer. Role design says who is responsible at each step, so a wrong size has an owner.
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A frame is built to the size on a drawing, and the drawing starts with a site measurement. When the measurement is wrong, the cut list is wrong, the frame is wrong and the installer finds out in the opening. The measurer says the site was uneven, the cutter says he followed the list and the installer is blamed for the gap. Glass breaks in the same way, in the workshop or on a staircase, and no role says who owns it.
Good role sheets map the order. The measurer's sheet lists what to check, how to record it and who confirms it. The cut list sheet names who reads the drawing and who checks the list against it. The fabricator's sheet covers welding, assembly and a first piece check. The installer's sheet covers upper-floor work, glass, sealing and customer sign-off. Each has a backup, and glass has a named owner at each stage.
How to set it up
1. Follow one order end to end
Pick a recent order and list each hand from measurement to sign-off. Mark where a check happened and who did it.
2. Name the owner for each check
Measurement confirmation, cut list check, first piece check, glass handling and final fit. One name each, with a backup.
3. Write the measurer's sheet
Set what must be recorded on each opening, how it is confirmed and who the measurer reports to. Add a repeat measure rule for large or odd openings.
4. Write the installer's sheet
Cover glass, upper floors, sealing and the customer sign-off. See role design and job descriptions.
5. Assign glass ownership
Name who owns glass at the workshop, in the vehicle and on site. A breakage is recorded against the stage, not just the crew.
Check these first
Before changing anything, find out what is true today. These take an afternoon and use your own records.
- Count the remakes in the last quarter caused by wrong measurements.
- Ask each installer who owns the glass when it breaks on site.
- List the posts with no named backup.
- Check how many cut lists were checked against the drawing by a second person.
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Questions owners ask
The measurer owns recording it, and a second person owns confirming it for larger or unusual openings. A single owner with no check makes errors invisible until the frame is built.
Yes, at each stage. Workshop, vehicle and site each need a name. Record the stage when a pane breaks. Without it, breakage is shared by all and owned by none.
Yes. Their risks, tools and customer contact differ. Keep each to one page, and add a short note on how each hands over to the next, so gaps do not open between them.