Metal Forger & Welder

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The duties of this position include:

• Producing various types of heavy forgings occasionally exceeding 500 pounds using stock with a cross-sectional area of 28 square inches or more.
• Producing forgings of all forgeable material, ferrous and non-ferrous, using power hammers, presses or hand tools, as needed.
• Performing forging operations such as drawing; upsetting, bending, twisting, scoring, backing, rolling, beveling, and punching billets and ingots of metal.
• Utilizing welding machinery to weld various types of metal.
• Working from blueprints, sample parts, templates, sketches or verbal instructions, to lay out metal to be forged.
• Selecting appropriate stock and cutting it to size by sawing, shearing or hacking.
• Bringing stock to forging temperature at proper rate without impairing the stock.
• Deciding when stock is ready for forging, removing stock from furnace and placing it on hammer block.
• Handling and manipulating the workpiece using forging tools to produce the required dimensions and contours.
• Using measure devices to ensure correct dimensions.
• Making your own forging tools and dies.
• Assembling forged parts, as needed.
• Assisting crafts persons from other trades, as directed.