Overview

POSITION SUMMARY

Use hand-welding or flame cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s)

  • Comply with safety and environmental guidelines, policies and regulations.
  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts.
  • Remove rough spots from work pieces, using portable grinders, hand files or scrapers.
  • Chip or grind off excess weld, slag or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders or arc-cutting equipment.
  • Weld components in flat, vertical or overhead positions.
  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments using processes, such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, and submerged arc welding.

Feather or remove tacks using electric or pneumatic, grinders prior to welding beading pass.

POSITION LEVELS

Welder I:

  • 1-2 years of pipe welding experience
  • General knowledge of tools, equipment, blueprints, models and technical plans
  • General knowledge of machines, designs, repair and maintenance
  • Maintain a rejection rate of 5% or below

Welder II:

  • 2-3 years of pipe welding experience
  • Extensive knowledge of design techniques, production of technical plans, blueprints, models and drawings
  • Extensive knowledge of materials, methods, and principals involved in the production of precise technical designs, uses and maintenance
  • Must possess the ability to perform at least three (3) processes.
  • Maintain a rejection rate of 4% or below
  • Must be able to perform in most bays

Welder III:

  • 3-4 plus years of pipe welding experience
  • Expert knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance
  • Expert knowledge of design techniques, methods, production of precision technical plans, blueprints and drawings
  • Must possess the ability to perform and be efficient in three (3) processes
  • Expert knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance
  • Expert knowledge of design techniques, methods, production of precision technical plans, blueprints and drawings
  • Must possess the ability to perform and be efficient in three (3) processes
  • Maintain a rejection rate of 3% or below
  • Must be able to perform in all bays
  • Maintain a rejection rate of 3% or below
  • Must be able to perform in all bays

Welder IV:

  • 5 plus years of pipe welding experience

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Competency Statement(s)

  • Quality of Work – Demonstrates competence in required job skills and knowledge; accuracy, clarity, consistency, and thoroughness of work; gives feedback for continuous improvement of work product; understanding and mastery of processes, methods, systems, and procedures.
  • Accuracy – Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
  • Productivity – Met previously established goals and objectives.
  • Analytical Skills – Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.
  • Dependability – Takes responsibility for own actions; completed assignments in an ethical and mature manner.
  • Active Listening – Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
  • Autonomy – Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Time Management – Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.
  • Detail Oriented – Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
  • Working Under Pressure – Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Education: High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED): Preferred

Experience: 1 plus years of experience in Welding

Computer Skills: Not applicable

Certifications/Licenses: None specifically required

Activity is not applicable to this position.

Position requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0 – 2.5+ hrs/day)

Position requires this activity from 33% – 66% of the time (2.5 – 5.5+ hrs/day)

Position requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hrs/day)

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to high, precarious places and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

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