Overview
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.
Feather or remove tacks using electric or pneumatic, grinders prior to welding beading pass.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
N (Not Applicable)
Activity is not applicable to this position.
O (Occasionally)
Position requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0 – 2.5+ hrs/day)
F (Frequently)
Position requires this activity from 33% – 66% of the time (2.5 – 5.5+ hrs/day)
C (Constantly)
Position requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hrs/day)
Physical Demands
Lift/Carry
Stand
C
Walk
F
Sit
O
Manually Manipulate
C
Reach Outward
F
Reach Above Shoulder
C
Climb
O
Crawl
O
Squat or Kneel
F
Bend
F
Grasp
C
Speak
O
10 lbs or less
F
11-20 lbs
F
21-50 lbs
O
51-100 lbs
N
Over 100 lbs
N
Push/Pull
12 lbs or less
F
13-25 lbs
F
26-40 lbs
O
41-100 lbs
N
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. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.