Welder

Skilled and dependable welder with experience in both TIG and MIG welding. Knowledgeable in reading blueprints, measuring and cutting materials, preparing metal surfaces, and producing strong, clean, and precise welds. Able to work with various types of metals while maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and workmanship. Experienced in assembling, fitting, and repairing metal components, inspecting finished welds, and ensuring all work meets required specifications.

A hardworking, detail-oriented professional who works well independently or as part of a team and is committed to completing projects efficiently and safely.

Responsibilities
1. Study blueprints and job routers for information on material properties and specifications to determine welding and operational sequence(s) requirements.
2. Select proper welding approach, tools, and consumables using knowledge of material properties and welding best practice.
3. Position parts and setup welding operation; make fixtures to hold work for high quantity orders, when appropriate
4. Complete welding operation by using appropriate torches, torch tips, filler rods, wire, flux, or other materials/consumables, according to welding chart specifications and/or types and thicknesses of metals.
5. Examine parts for defects; measure to ensure conformance with specifications; send sample workpiecesto inspection to ensure in-process quality control sampling requirements are met, as indicated on router.
6. Monitor processes, tools, materials and operations and if needed, adjust.
7. Clean and prepare parts for finishing and shipping to meet internal standards and as indicated on print orjob router.
8. Meet or exceed job order expectations.
9. Keep equipment and work area clean and orderly; ensure consumables are re-supplied; and perform preventative maintenance functions on equipment and tools.
10.Suggest and implement improvements.

Qualifications Knowledge
• Blueprint reading, geometric dimension and tolerance system
• Mathematics: adding, subtracting, multiplication, division, geometry
• Welding machines: uses, capabilities, limitations, operations and maintenance
• Welding techniques
• Part fixturing and procedures to use to keep parts from distorting
• Measuring devices: calipers, tape measures, others
• Material: properties/dynamics, including reactions to heat
• Post work processing and finishing, including effects of post-processing and finishing operations
• Shop operations and systems; including where to locate parts and materials
• Standard operating procedures; safety protocols and practices Skills
• Calculate dimensions or tolerances, including allowances for coatings or plating, when needed
• Read/interpret blueprints and routers
• Monitor and control welding operations, keeping welding distortion down
• Set up, operate, and move fluidly between various types of welding techniques and machines
• Perform quality control: test and inspect parts using instruments such as calipers Abilities
• Utilize three-dimensional thinking/spatial orientation skills to visualize and conceive most efficient and effective process for making parts
• Cross-check best practice against written orders
• Exercise problem sensitivity: anticipate when something is wrong or likely to go wrong
• Focus: concentrate on a task over time with attention to detail and accuracy
• Engage with multiple streams of work simultaneously
• Stand on shop floor continually or almost continually; perform repetitious movements
• Use hands to handle, control, or inspect objects, tools, or controls (manual dexterity)
• Demonstrate passion for making high quality parts; take pride in one’s work
• Teach/train others in the work
• Be a team player; demonstrate commitment to the organization, its customers, and…