Job Description

Overview

The Chrome Pipe Welder Journeyman is responsible for planning, laying out, welding, installing, testing, and repairing various types of pipe and tubular products in accordance with industry standards. This skilled position requires experience in a power plant or industrial setting and involves working in a construction environment with potential exposure to various conditions.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, diagram and lay-out for pipe welder’s work
  • Coordinate with field labor crew for efficient installations
  • Position the weld set up, fit the piping and perform welds involving a high degree of precision independently
  • Lay-out and assemble pipes accurately according to production standards, quality requirements, safety requirements, code, design, and specifications
  • Make welding repairs and substandard welds
  • Assist with coordination of any Pre-Fabrication layout or installation
  • Assist with rigging of material
  • Operate air arc gouger, grinder, stress relieving machine, and other industry machines, tools and equipment
  • Estimate sizes, distances, and quantities; or determine time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity
  • Inspect subordinate's work for compliance with the contract plans and specifications, point out deficiencies and explain and take any corrective action needed

Requirements

  • Experience as a Chrome Pipe Welder Journeyman in a Power Plant / Industrial setting
  • Must possess working knowledge skills and abilities for position
  • Ability to understand, follow and transmit written and oral instructions and communicate effectively with management/supervision
  • Ability to use hand tools, power tools and layout tools safely and efficiently
  • Must have required tools
  • May require U.S. Driver License
  • Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing

Additional Information

  • The person in this position needs to constantly move about a construction/industrial site
  • Constantly works in a construction environment and will be exposed to changing outdoor weather conditions
  • Work irregular hours, weekends, overtime and holidays as required
  • May be required to use ladders/mechanical platforms/manlifts/scaffold to access required equipment/work areas (may exceed 200 feet)
  • Must be able to climb and maintain balance on formwork, steel formwork, stairs, ladders and scaffolds
  • Move and work in and around confined and cluttered places, and uneven surfaces
  • Must be able to complete tasks in a noisy and dusty environment
  • May be required/able to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across construction/industrial site