Welder Job Description Job Summary
Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld, fabricate or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. Job Responsibilities
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• 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.
• 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.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required. • Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers
• Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
• Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes and portable grinders Job Requirements Candidates must be “fit to work”
• Manual dexterity
• Bend over and reach over head
• Work on knees for short periods of time
• Ability to stand for extended periods of time
• Ability to lift 75 lbs.
• Good vision Must pass welding test Arc, MIG, TIG, Flux-core Basic math skills required.
Ability to read blueprints
Possess valid driver’s license
Have reliable transportation
Pass a criminal background check Pass a drug test
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