Overview
Description:
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION:
Plans and performs a wide variety of welding, layout, cutting, brazing, and soldering operations on a variety of parts, components, and assemblies.
MAJOR AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
- Welds all types of materials in structural and sheet metal sizes and shapes, utilizing a full range of welding processes including, gas metal arc welding (GMAW), gas tungsten arc welding(GTAW), plasma and oxy-acetylene cutting along with brazing.
- Selects rod, wire, tips, and electrodes for specific operation to be performed.
- Fits and positions parts in accordance with drawing specifications using locating fixtures and measuring devices as required. Creates fixtures as needed.
- Checks work as necessary to assure holding prescribed tolerances to maintain quality standards.
- Tack welds as necessary and performs all positions of welding, sometimes in confined spaces.
- Works from drawings, sketches, welding symbols, specifications, and instructions to plan work in proper operational sequence and determine methods and techniques to be applied.
- Identifies job flow problems and causes and recommends corrective action to ensure timely and efficient production effort.
- Interprets drawings, sketches, welding symbols, specifications, and instructions to determine methods and techniques to be applied.
- Uses care to lay a smooth bead, obtains proper penetration and fusion, displays ability to manage distortion of weldments, detects defective material, unusual conditions or operating difficulties and report it to the supervisor.
- Performs any assembly of products that may be required.
- Maintains equipment and work area in a clean and orderly condition.
- Welds and finishes to customers specifications, applying various finishes as needed, on all size weldments. Customer appearance is a necessity.
- Performs periodic field work installing company products, repair customer equipment on occasion.
- Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
QUALIFICATIONS FOR ENTRY:
- A minimum of 3 years of welding experience.
- Ability to successfully complete AWS/ASME certification tests.
- Ability to demonstrate strong math.
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints.
- Ability to use a variety of hand tools, measuring instruments, and operation of welding equipment including machine settings for various welding processes.
- Ability to work on intricate welding processes, both hand and machine, to develop complex fabrications to closely prescribed standards.
- Ability to perform some fixturing and set-up as required.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Anderson Dahlen fosters a manufacturing type environment. Moderately heavy work requiring the occasional lifting of objects weighing 50 pounds or less. In the performance of essential duties, the incumbent may be required to operate a variety of industrial machining tools.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.
PI