Structural Steel Fitter Fabricator

Job Description

$25 to $35 an hour, based on how well you read prints and fit steel. Full-time, direct hire, 2 openings at a structural steel fabrication shop in Columbus.

1st shift: 5:30 AM to 3:00 PM. A 2nd shift is also open. Overtime is available.

We build the steel for schools, hospitals and other commercial and industrial buildings. About 35 people work in the shop.

The work:

- Fit and assemble structural steel: columns, beams, bracing and connections

- Work from shop drawings: HSS columns with base and cap plates, wide flange beams with bolted clip angles, shear tabs, bent plates, copes and splice plates

- Lay out and measure from the dimensions and weld symbols on the drawing

- Tack and weld with flux core (FCAW), including vertical

- Use cutters, grinders, squares (combination, framing, bevel), drills and clamps

You need:

- At least 2 years of structural steel fitting or fabrication

- Able to read structural shop drawings and explain them

- Flux core welding experience

- Pass a drug test. This is a drug-free workplace.

- Live in the Columbus area

A plus: preheat, back gouging (air carbon arc), complete and partial penetration welds, and welds that get UT tested.

No degree required. Experience is what counts.

The interview: talk through your work history, walk through three real shop drawings on a big screen and explain what you see, then a 15 minute flux core weld test in the shop. Most people hear back the same day.

Interviews are being scheduled now.

Apply through this posting. Qualified applicants will be contacted within one business day.

Equal opportunity employer.