Welder

Job DescriptionJob Description

Summary: To provide the highest quality product and assures all products meet the specifications and quality requirements by performing the following functions. Other duties may be assigned.

Responsibilities:

• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.

Skills:

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Reading skills
• Previous metal structure exp. helpful
• 1 - 3 yrs. min. welding experience required

Education/Experience:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent, Technical School
• Welding Certificate (will need pass AWS-1G test)
• Prior experience
• Forklift and Crane Operation Experience

1st and 2nd Shifts
40