Overview
The Welder and Fabricator position involves applying welding processes to join and repair metal parts under supervision, following specifications from work orders and blueprints. The role requires a focus on safety and compliance with company policies.
Responsibilities
- Perform all tasks in a safe and responsible manner and comply with company policies.
- 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.