Work Schedule: Days and hours vary depending on the assigned project.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Promote and comply with all Company and safety policies and procedures
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind and/or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment and/or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• 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.
• Examine work pieces for defects, and measure work pieces 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.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
• Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications, or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Remove rough spots from work pieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
• Position and secure work pieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
• Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
• Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
• Fill holes and increase the size of metal parts.
• Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
• Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
• Signal crane operators to move large work pieces.
• Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across work pieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
• Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
• Cut metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions, and contour and bevel as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.
• Preheat work pieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
• Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
• Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
• Join parts such as beams and steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bridges, and highways, bolting and riveting as necessary.
• Hammer out bulges or bends in metal work pieces.
• Maintain a professional appearance
• Other duties as assigned by Foreman or Superintendent

Required Education

• High school diploma or equivalent GED.

Required Experience

• Minimum of 6 months experience, one year certificate from a technical school or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Skills/Licenses/Certifications

• Must be able to pass the required welding certification test
• Valid driver’s license to operate motor vehicles.
• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
• Add and subtract two-digit numbers and multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s, ability to perform these operations using unit weight measurements and volumes.
• Ability to calculate rate, ratios and percentages
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form
• Workers should be able to work within precise standards of accuracy and follow set procedures and standards

Supervisory Responsibility

• None

Physical Demands & Working Conditions

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• Able to bend, stoop, squat, crawl, climb, kneel, balance, push, pull, and reach overhead for extended periods of time.
• Lift and carry at least 50 to 100 pounds.
• Climb and descend all types of ladders.
• Wear personal protective equipment (e., hardhat, eye protection, respiratory protection, fall protection, etc.)

Required Tools

• See Tool Requirements

Travel Requirement

• May be required to travel to different jobsites on limited notice

Work Environment 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Position requires working in all elements – heat, cold, rain, or snow – depending on job location and time of year.
• May require use of personal vehicle for transportation to and from work site.
• Must be able to utilize job site sanitary facilities (e., Portable Toilets).
• May require work in restricted areas (e., excavations, utility tunnels, manholes, tanks, crawl spaces, attics, etc.).
• May require working at various heights, up to 100-feet, from ladders, scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks, or other safe work areas.