Quick overview
Job description
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Customer Focus
- Decision Quality
- Business Insight
- Drives Results
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Courage
- Instills Trust
- Manages Ambiguity
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits.
- Positions, aligns, and welds parts to form complete structures, following blueprints and layout specifications, using machinery, welding torches, and hand tools.
- Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
- Examines steel or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
- Moves parts safely into position; manually or with hoists or cranes.
- Produces complete joint penetration welds that meet visual and ultrasonic inspection.
- Capable of reading and understanding welding symbols.
- Prepares all joints as required by AWS D1.1 structural steel welding code.
- Welds components in flat position.
- Operates manual welding equipment to fuse metal parts using the gas metal arc process.
- Cleans and repairs welds with grinders, arc gougers, other equipment, and methods common to she welding trade.
- Examines work pieces for defects and measures with weld gauges to ensure conformance with specifications and standard operating procedures.
REQUIREMENTS FOR PRODUCTION WELDER
- High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Ability to interpret blueprints and read a tape measure required.
- Welding certification or prior welding experience with the successful passing of DIS-TRAN Steel’s Welder II test is required.
- Capable of producing complete joint penetration welds that meet all visual and ultrasonic inspection per AWS D1.1 structural steel welding code.
- Ability to produce high quality welds in all applications, with various material types; makes all welds neatly and consistently; ability to weld within weld procedure is required.
- Ability to use standard set of weld gauges is required.
- Ability to properly set, maintain, and troubleshoot welding equipment is required.
- Capable of reading and understanding welding symbols and preparing all joints as required; GMAW experience required.
- Certifications or prior experience using moving machinery, such as cranes, preferred.
- Production speeds exceed training / learning pace and often looks for improvement in processes.
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