Overview
Join the IPG Team as a Welder on a contract basis. At IPG, a global leader in packaging and protective solutions, we value safety, people, passion, integrity, performance, and teamwork while developing innovative solutions that protect the world.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a safe and clean work environment and comply with all quality, safety, and work rules and regulations.
- Read and interpret blueprints or job orders to determine specifications of the job.
- Hold fabrication tolerances at +/- 1/16" (or better).
- Set up material including stainless sheet metal, tubing, and other forms of stainless steel.
- Perform tack or set up welds using a TIG welder.
- Utilize measuring tools such as tape measure, caliper, machinist square, protractor, and OD micrometer.
- Verify weldments conform to drawings and specifications and make corrections as required.
- Weld on a broad range of metals and alloys for complex precision assemblies.
- Weld parts, components, frames, and weldments per drawings.
- Finalize welding with a TIG welder to ensure a seamless end result.
- Accurately produce frames within required tolerances and squareness.
- Grind and polish all sharp edges on workpieces as required.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Requirements
- At least 5 years' experience as a TIG welder in a job shop environment.
- Experience with steel or mild steel, material ranging from 1/16" up to ½".
- Ability to use grinders, saws, polishers, hand tools, and power tools.
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints without assistance.
- Ability to read, write, and communicate in English.
- Able to operate a bending brake press.
- Ability to accurately read a tape measure.
- Leveling and squaring ability without assistance.
- Ability to occasionally push/pull/carry up to 50 pounds by oneself.
- Ability to bend and rotate body repeatedly.
Additional Information
- This role is on a contract basis.
- Regularly required to stand for a minimum of 8 hours per day.
- Frequently required to grasp, handle/feel objects, control/manage tools, and use hands/arms.
- Occasionally required to walk, stoop, kneel, and crouch.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.