Viper USA

Overview

The Welder position involves cutting and joining metals and other materials, operating equipment to weld metal components, and ensuring the quality of fabricated metal products.

Responsibilities

• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits while performing job functions.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment using various welding processes.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating or warping of materials.
• Examine work pieces for defects and measure them to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
• Perform routine quality inspections per procedure.

Requirements

• Understand and interpret blueprints.
• 2+ years of past welding experience.