Day Shift Welder

A good company is more than just the sum of its products.  Since 1949, we have focused on three principles: honesty, hard work, and giving customer the best product in the world—Orange Iron, the Ditch Witch brand. We provide opportunities for continued training and professional growth as well as competitive wages and top-notch benefits. 

This employee hand welds components used to build Ditch Witch equipment. This employee also assembles equipment and performs other duties as assigned. This is a day shift production welder opening.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Read information from blueprints, technical manuals or other documents.
• Set up fixtures, mount parts in fixtures, and perform mechanical assembly. This includes using hand and air tools such as wrenches, torque wrenches, impact wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, etc.
• Move and position parts —with a hoist and manually.
• Use a hoist to lift and position large, heavier components and completed weldments.
• Set up, adjust, and operate MIG welding equipment to weld machine components.
• Remove components from fixtures, clean and check them for quality, and correct errors or deficiencies of weldments.
• Use a computer to check the location, inventory, routing of parts, and to record inventory transactions.
• Through behavior and communication, maintain positive relationships with customers, clients, supervisors, and co-workers.
• Meet or exceed typical production, quality, attendance, and safety expectations.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Manufacturing plant conditions (indoors, with variable temperature, humidity, noise, and dirt).
• Relatively high temperatures
• Use of personal protective equipment including a welding hood, gloves, and sleeves, safety glasses, face shields and hearing protection
• Physical hazards such as powered vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic, sharp objects, moving machinery, electrical arc-welding equipment, and materials handling
• Working with hazardous materials, including solvents, oils, grease, and pressurized gases
• A variable work schedule (ranging from 8-12 hours daily with overtime paid after 8 hours per day) and some scheduled work on Saturdays.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Have appropriate MIG welding experience OR have completed a formal welding training program (or the equivalent in training and experience).
• Be able to handle items weighing over 60 pounds. This includes lifting, pushing, pulling, and positioning components.
• Have appropriate mechanical skills, including experience using hand and air-powered tools (wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, etc.).
• Have appropriate reading, clerical, and basic math skills.
• Have a good work record, including indications of strong self-motivation, reliable attendance, attention to quality, ability to learn new skills, and a cordial, cooperative personality

PHYSICAL DEMAND CHARACTERISTICS: Medium

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Standing: Continuous
• Sitting: Occasional
• Walking: Frequent
• Twisting: Frequent
• Bending: Frequent
• Elevated Work: Occasional
• Squatting/Kneeling: Frequent
• Climbing: Frequent
• Pulling/Pushing: up to 50lbs
• Floor to Knuckle: up to 60lbs
• Knuckle to Shoulder: up to 35lbs
• Shoulder to Overhead: up to 25lbs

If interested in this role, please apply online!

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