Welder Repair Technician

Location and Pay

Location:

Waterford, CT (Regional Office) - Cust. installations

Pay Range: $28-32/hr

• Airgas offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance.
• Support for Parents:
  We offer a 14-week paid child birth benefit to support growing families.
• Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time.
• Early Access:
  Your benefits start after just 30 days of employment
• medical, dental, and vision plans
• short-term and long-term disability
• life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• pre-tax commuter transportation benefit
• parental leave
• vacation
• sick time
• floating holidays
• jury duty
• funeral/bereavement leave
• paid holidays for all eligible full-time employees
• a 401k plan with company matching funds
• tuition reimbursement
• discounted college tuition for eligible employees’ dependents
• an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children

• The Welding Repair Technician is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting and repairing electrical, mechanical and control functionality of welding equipment for Airgas and Airgas’s customers.
• This position will repair engine drives, inverters, transformers and automation equipment.
• The position is required to maintain an inventory of parts and supplies and maintain all required documentation including tracking of all work hours for appropriate customer billing.
• Travels to customer sites to diagnose and resolve technical needs, to facilitate routine/preventative maintenance (PM) and deliver National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) traceable calibration on all types of Airgas equipment and products including, but not limited to:
  Manual, robotic and semi-automatic Pulsed Metal Arc Welding (GMAW-P), Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW) and Plasma Arc Welding (PAW) equipment including many custom semi-automatic systems.
• Orbital tube and pipe welding systems.
• High purity bulk and cylinder gas systems.
• Integrated welding and motion control systems.
• Ensures all service requests are fulfilled in an organized and efficient manner and obtains customer’s signature on the order prior to leaving facility.
• Stewards company provided diagnostic equipment, tools and other equipment in clean, good working condition and within manufacturer’s recommendations.
• Safely manages and secures the equipment at the end of each day.
• Maintains inventory of parts in the Airgas facility.
• Collaborates with leadership on the job status, daily activities and condition of equipment.
• Connects by phone and in person with vendors, customers, sales staff, store managers and others, providing information on repair times, ordering of parts and supplies, etc.
• Maintains database of and schedule of all calibration and PM’s on Airgas and Airgas’s customer equipment.
• Contributing to team goals as needed.

• High School Diploma or GED Required.
• Minimum of 2 years of prior related electrical and or electronics repair experience preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Intermediate knowledge of Google suite applications and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).
• Must have general mechanical aptitude.
• Ability to plan a logical approach to troubleshooting and repairing equipment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in all units of measure using whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratios, and percent.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to read and comprehend manuals, schematics, material safety data sheets and instructions
• Self-starter; self-motivated; operates with a sense of urgency; ability to work independently and under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Regularly required to move up to 60 pounds and transport up to 800 pounds with the aid of material handling equipment.
• Frequent local travel (85% of work time).
• Must be able to work flexible hours to meet customer needs and management expectations.
• Must be willing to be away from home for customer service calls and certification schools approximately 10% of the time…