Viper USA

Welder

Location

West Lafayette, IN

Employment Type

Full-time

Required Skills & Certifications

Stick WeldingFlux-Core Welding
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Posted on April 17, 2026

Job Description

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.