Welder

Overview

Description At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members’ personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy:
Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.

Department: Pac Fab Fabrication

Location: Warrenton

At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members’ personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy:
Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.

A Welder I at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Maintenance team supporting efforts to ensure the smooth operation, safety, and efficiency of the facility. This position involves collaboration, safety compliance, and improving efficiencies and is ideal for someone who is adaptable, flexible, and has an eye for detail.

• Welding Operations:
  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
  • Lay out, position, align, and secure raw materials to be cut, beveled, shaped, or ground prior to assembly.
  • Prepare all material surfaces to be welded.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for assembly.
  • Determine required equipment and welding methods to be used, applying knowledge of welding techniques and basic mathematical calculations.
  • Utilize welding equipment such as lathe, band saw, milling machine, water jet, drill press, ironworker/press/breaks, grinders, portable welding machines, and other heavy equipment to join together and shape raw materials.
  • Utilize CADD software to set up Water Jet to cut individual jobs.
• Safety and Compliance:
  • Operate and utilize safety equipment and use safe working habits.
  • Follow all established safety rules, wear required PPE at all times, and obey safety signs and tags.
  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
  • Detect faulty equipment or defective materials and notify Fabrication Manager – remedy any unsafe conditions immediately.

Additional responsibilities may be assigned as deemed necessary to support the overall goals and objectives of the position.

• Required
  • High School Diploma/GED equivalent
  • 3 or more years’ related experience and/or training
• Preferred
  • CNC waterjet experience
  • AutoCAD experience

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member:

• Sedentary work, walking and standing are required only occasionally.
• Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
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