Overview
The Welder and Fabricator position involves applying welding processes to join, surface, fabricate, or repair metal parts under supervision. The role requires adherence to safety protocols and the ability to interpret engineering drawings and specifications.
Responsibilities
- Perform all tasks in a safe and responsible manner and comply with company policies.
- Lift up to 50 pounds frequently.
- Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
- Weld steel components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
- Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded.
- Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
- Position pieces to be welded into jigs, holding fixtures, guides and steps using measuring instruments and hand tools.
- Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
- Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
- Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
- May perform other duties as assigned by management.