Summary:
Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or
seams of fabricated metal products
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits.
• Welds 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.
• Clamps, holds, tack-welds, heat-bends, grinds and/or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Detects faulty operation of equipment and/or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Operates 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, and submerged arc welding.
• Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Examines work pieces for defects, and measures work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognizes, sets up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
Required Qualifications:
• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• 1 to 2 years previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain base access to assigned government/military installations.
• Knowledge of a wide range of welding principles, processes, and difficult techniques requiring complete
penetration and fusion of base and filler metals.
• Ability to maintain dimensions and tolerances to specifications, weld dissimilar metals, weld parts and
structures that vary in size, shape and thickness.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Certification and experience as a forklift and man-lift operator.
Tooling Required:
• 25’ Tape
• Center Punch
• 3 lb beater
• Chalk Box
• Pencil
• Combination Square
• Burning goggles
• Striker
• Full Face Welding Shield
• Welding Gloves
• Slag Hammer
• Bottle Wrench
• 12” Crescent Wrench
• Wire Cutters
• Pliers
• Utility Knife
Physical Demands:
• While performing these job duties, the employee is routinely required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; use fingers and hands to type or write; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Must be able to lift 50 pounds.
Work Environment:
• This position is performed in a shop environment, with some local travel between facilities.
Fairlead Integrated, LLC. and its subsidiaries are proud to be Equal Employ Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers (Minority / Female / Disability / Veterans).
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