Welder

Salary: DOE, starting at $24/hour

Job Description:

**Duties:**

• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.

• Weld components in flat, vertical, and 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, grind, or bolt component parts per fitters instructions to obtain required configurations and positions for welding, sometimes on positioners.

• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes listed below as well as change gas bottles for welding equipment.

• Monitor the burning and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of the material.

• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.

• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.

• Operate a small forklift,scissor lift, andoverhead crane.

• Work with coworkers and other departments effectively to meet deadlines.

• Lift and rotate heavy equipment up to 20 lbs and lift heavy metal pieces up to 60 lbs.

**Skills/Qualifications/Licensing:**

• Perform SMAW (Shielded metal arc welding aka stick welding) in 3G vertical up position and air arc (back gouge) per ASME code regulations that will pass 100% x-ray.

• Perform FCAW (Flux core arc welding), GMAW (Gas metal arc welding), GTAW (Gas tungsten arc welding),

• SAW (Submerged arc welding), and SAW Strip welding per ASME code regulations will pass 100% x-ray.

• Perform plasma cutting or oxy-acetylene burning of metal components.

• Proficient at air arc (back gouge).

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED

• Vocational/Technical/Business School preferred

Experience:

Certified in one or more of the welding process described above with at least two to five years of experience