Welder

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits while performing job function.
• Responsible to manage how much time he uses on a project and the time of others that might be in his crew.
• Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ignites torches or starts power supplies and strikes arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies supervisors.
• Clamps, holds, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Operates manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, and flux-cored arc, plasma arc, and shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
• Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts of warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of materials.
• Examines work pieces for defects and measures work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognizes, set up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Will lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Needs to be able to understand written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Responsible to perform routine maintenance on equipment and determine when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
• Must also be able to speak to others to convey information effectively so that the job can be completed in the manner it should be.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED), or one to three months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Needs knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, maintenance, design techniques, tools, and principals involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Self-motivated and able to meet deadlines
• Able to analyze and work thru situations
• Ability to run heavy machinery and lifts
• Maintain quality standards
• Knows basic mathematics to solve problems pertaining to welding functions.
• Must determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Needs to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to.
• Certificates, licenses and registrations required: Certified Welder (CW), Welding, Cutting, Brazing Safety Technician (WST)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Has the ability to keep hand and arm steady while moving the arm or while holding the hand in one position.
• Has the ability to see details at close range while doing his job function.
• Has the ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• Has the ability to quickly move the hand, the hand together with the arm, or two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Has the ability to make precise coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• • While performing the duties of this job, the noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
  • The employee must occasionally lift and /or move more than 20 pounds
  • Specialized equipment, machines, or vehicles used: Welding Machines

The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or physical requirements. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.