Overview

The Welder Helper is responsible for welding in the garage. This position is responsible for understanding, supporting, and assisting the operational teams assigned with client specific tasks, standards, specification, and thorough understanding of all department operating policies and procedures.

Our Core Values: TRAITS

Trust, Respect, Accountability, Integrity, Teamwork, and Safety.

Essential Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Roles and Responsibilities:
Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions

Works with specialized equipment including welding and other necessary tools

Works safely around backhoes, excavators, trenchers, and dump trucks

Cleans and prepares construction sites to eliminate possible hazards

Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers

Examines workpieces for defects and measures work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications

Clamps, holds, tack-welds, heat-bends, grinds, or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding

Selects and installs torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals

Determines required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques

Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material

Analyzes engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations

Marks or tags material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required

Prepares all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter

Preheats work pieces using torches to then guide and directs flames or electrodes on or across work pieces to connect pipe

Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies supervisors

Cleans or degreases parts, using wire brushes, and portable grinders

Success Factors:
Ability to perform heavy manual labor for extended periods, often under adverse climatic conditions.

Ability to understand and follow specific oral and written instructions

Ability to work well independently and as a part of a team with co-workers

Ability to pass motor vehicle, criminal background check, and comply with drug-free workplace policy

English usage sufficient to keep records, place orders, and prepare simple narrative reports

Willingness and ability to learn additional skills

Experience and Education:
High school diploma or equivalent desired

Previous Welding Experience

Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus

Additional Requirements/Licenses/Certifications:
Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid State of Residence Driver’s License is required within two weeks of employment.

Candidates must pass criminal and Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) background checks and pass a pre-employment drug screen.

Notes:
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.