Welder; evening shift - Hollywood, FL

Since 1957, LPI Corporation has manufactured products for jet engines, aircraft components, and other aerospace & defense applications. Our reputation for quality, service, and dependability has permitted us to serve many of the world's leading aerospace & defense original equipment manufacturers.

The position uses hand‑welding or flame‑cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

• Experience with and knowledge of proper clamping, holding, heat‑bending, grinding, bolting and tack welding of weld components to obtain required configuration and positions for welding.
• Operate manual GTAW (TIG) (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) machines as well as their care, maintenance, and trouble shooting.
• Operate Semi‑Automatic GTAW welding equipment.
• Operate using experience with or knowledge of safe GTAW welding practices.
• Weld sheet metal in the flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions.
• Inspect work upon completion for any defects to comply with written specifications.
• Perform layout operations, develop fixtures and select optimum welding processes.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools.
• Understanding of weld schedules and weld symbols.
• Utilize standard shop hand tools and measuring equipment such as wrenches, pliers, straightedges, combination squares, scale rules, calipers, micrometers, etc.
• Monitor the fitting, heating, and welding procedures to avoid overheating or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of weld components.

Education: High School Diploma or GED Equivalent

Experience: Minimum of 5 years welding experience performing GTAW on a variety of aerospace materials such as austenitic, martensitic, and precipitation hardened stainless steels, nickel‑based steels, aluminum, and titanium.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Preference for NADCAP certification for aerospace welding, specifically the welding of sheet metal in flat, horizontal, vertical, and overhead positions.

Specialized Knowledge or Abilities:

• Language:
  Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals; ability to communicate orally and in writing.
• Mathematical
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to use basic shop math; add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure; compute ratios, percentages, and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Abilities:
  Ability to apply common sense to carry out detailed written or oral instructions; solve problems involving a few concrete variables; use equipment and tools properly and safely.
• Special
  
  Skills and Abilities:
  
  Familiar with a variety of field concepts, practices, and procedures; rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals; requires a certain degree of creativity and latitude.

Requires regular standing, walking, bending, squatting, hand use, reaching, speaking or hearing; occasional lifting of up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. May work with toxic or caustic chemicals.

Exposed to moving mechanical parts, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock. Noise level usually moderate.