Shop Plate Burner

High school diploma, GED or vocational school recommended but not limited.

90 days or more working as an apprentice burner.

Company provided on-the-job training.

Use a hand cutting torch, tape measure, square and compass; ability to follow diagrams and templates; ability to add and subtract fractions.

• Works in a fabrication shop and sets up and operates thermal cutting machines which cut metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions, contour, and bevel specified by blueprints, layout, work orders, and templates:
  Lifts, positions, and clamps metal stock onto bed of machine.
• Connects hoses from torch to regulator valves and cylinders of oxygen and fuel gas, such as acetylene, hydrogen, or propane.
• Selects torch tip and computes gas pressure and mixture, and speed of cut, according to type and thickness of metal, data charts, or record of previous cuts.
• Installs tip to torch.
• Pushes button to adjust sliding arm from side or overhead carriage to position torch over cutting line, and to adjust height of head over workpiece to make longitudinal cuts.
• Adjusts length of radial arm to cut out arcs or circles.
• Tilts angle of torch to cut bevels.
• Pushes buttons and reads gauges to obtain selected gas pressure and mixture and set speed of cutting action.
• Pushes button to automatically light torch, preheat metal to oxidizing temperature, and open valve to release additional oxygen to cut through metal.
• Pushes button to automatically position torch at cutting line and to start machine moving along line.
• May maintain records of operating data.
• May lay out cutting lines, using rule, tape, and square.
• May preheat metal to remove surface impurities using hand torch.
• May clamp two or more plates together for simultaneous cutting.
• Will be required to climb and/or work at heights exceeding 6 feet, and subject to frequently lifting to but not exceeding 50lbs.