Combination Welder - Austin Industrial; Corpus Christi, TX

Rate

$34 USD per hour

Austin Industrial provides premier self‑perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. With more than 60 years of experience, we offer single‑source solutions in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. For more information, visit

This position requires the ability to join metal parts such as pipe or metal plates according to layout, blueprints, work orders, welding procedures, or oral instructions using heat or electric arc‑welding equipment. Other duties may be assigned.

• Use spot welding gun or hand, electric, or gas welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.
• Unite pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turn valves to release mixture.
• Reach the expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.
• Preheat work pieces for welding or curving using torch.
• Fill holes or correct mistakes in lead pieces and make bulges, thin plates, and curves in metal work pieces.
• Check the weakness of work pieces and measure them with straightedge or template to ensure specifications.
• Climb ladders or work on scaffolds to take apart textures.
• Signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces.
• Use thermal‑cutting equipment such as flame‑cutting torch or plasma‑arc equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
• Use hoist, crane, wire and banding machines, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
• Choose welding location based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal to protect torch.
• Instruct and bring flame or electrodes on or across workpiece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.
• Join pieces together, cover taut points, and add metal to develop parts.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Austin Industrial does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. Frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

• No minimum education requirement.
• 4 years of journeyman‑level experience.
• A weld test and a valid driver’s license.

• TWIC Card
• Valid Driver's License
• 51‑51‑B GTAW
• 43‑43‑B GTAW (x3)
• 8‑8‑B‑1 GTAW
• 1‑1‑BA‑2 GTAW/SMAW
• 1‑1‑B GTAW

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..