Certified Millwright​/Industrial Mechanic Millwright

Location: Port Maitland

The Certified Millwright/Industrial Mechanic Millwright performs troubleshooting, maintenance, inspection, installation, and fabrication of industrial equipment in a manufacturing setting. Performs various functions including welding, carpentry, pipe fitting, automotive, mechanical and masonry maintenance.

Key Responsibilities

Receives instructions, prints and work orders for job. Interprets drawings and sketches, plans details of working procedures, tools and materials requirements. Makes sketches showing construction details for fabrication or remodeling work. Plans sequence of operations and job methods. Makes calculations essential in estimating material requirements.

Selects materials in connection with suitability for job. Lays out work and determines stock sizes as required. Cleans and prepares surfaces to be welded as required. Sets up, assembles, tacks special fixtures and components, and welds as needed. Performs MIG (GMAW), TIG (GTAW), Stick (SMAW) welding all positions (flat, vertical, overhead etc.) Makes any type and size of weld, "V" lap, butt, etc.,

following welding procedures, and preheating parts when required. Builds up worn or defective surfaces cleans grinds and flame anneals parts and welded joints as required. Uses burning equipment to dismantle assemblies and to cut material to size and shape. Performs brazing as required.

Performs work requiring a working knowledge of the welding properties of various types of metals, welding rods, welding heats, stress relief, allowances for fit up and machining, and the effect of shrinkage, warpage and expansion.

Dismantles, cleans, repairs, replaces, installs and assembles machinery and equipment.

Inspects plant equipment for defects such as misalignment, wear, insufficient lubrication etc. Determines the best way of making repairs to minimize interruption of production. Advises when immediate shutdown of equipment is necessary to minimize damage or when temporarily continued operation will have no harmful effect. Dismantles, cleans, repairs, replaces, installs, maintains, assembles and lubricates mechanical equipment. Adjusts equipment for proper operating characteristics.

Makes either permanent or temporary repairs. Assembles and aligns gears, bearings, and shafts, involving the application of interference, sliding and running fits.

Breaks, cleans and replaces process lines as necessary. Changes, sets up and adjusts equipment as required by current operating conditions. Works with repairs crews as directed on emergency breakdowns. Performs rigging when required.

Performs a wide variety of carpentry work such as interior finishing, repair office furniture, doors, partitions, windows, building, tanks, benches, shoring scaffolds, concrete forms, etc. Locates and installs prefabricated wood and metal parts. Install or replace broken glass as required. Dismantles and erects various types of roofing and siding. Performs touch-up or incidental painting as required in connection with repairs. Erects scaffolds and safety barriers and makes provisions for handling materials needed for the job.

Plans, lays out piping as required, including calculating dimensions and radii of non‑standard bends.

Sets up and operates pipe bending, threading and cut‑off equipment, and uses various hand tools of the trade to shape and fabricate pipe as required for installation. Tests, inspects, dismantles, replaces, or installs any type of high or low pressure pipe fittings and fixtures as required for maintenance, installation and deconstruction of pipelines for air, water, steam, oil, gas, acid, caustic and others as required.

Uses various hand tools of the trade to shape and fabricate metal as required for fabrication of standard and custom equipment as…