CORE COMPETENCIES

• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Business Insight
• Drives Results
• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Courage
• instills Trust
• Manages Ambiguity

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits.
• Positions, aligns, and welds parts to form complete structures, following blueprints and layout specifications, using machinery, welding torches, and hand tools.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade.
• Examines steel or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
• Moves parts safely into position; manually or with hoists or cranes.
• Produces complete joint penetration welds that meet visual and ultrasonic inspection.
• Capable of reading and understanding welding symbols.
• Prepares all joints as required by AWS D1.1 structural steel welding code.
• Welds components in flat position.
• Operates manual welding equipment to fuse metal parts using the gas metal arc process.
• Cleans and repairs welds with grinders, arc gougers, other equipment, and methods common to she welding trade.
• Examines work pieces for defects and measures with weld gauges to ensure conformance with specifications and standard operating procedures.

REQUIREMENTS FOR PRODUCTION WELDERS

• High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Ability to interpret blueprints and read a tape measure required.
• Welding certification or prior welding experience with the successful passing of DIS-TRAN Steel’s Welder II test is  required.
• Capable of producing complete joint penetration welds that meet all visual and ultrasonic inspection per AWS D1.1 structural steel welding code.
• Ability to produce high quality welds in all applications, with various material types; makes all welds neatly and consistently; ability to weld within weld procedure is required.
• Ability to use standard set of weld gauges is required.
• Ability to properly set, maintain, and troubleshoot welding equipment is required.
• Capable of reading and understanding welding symbols and preparing all joints as required; GMAW experience required.
• Certifications or prior experience using moving machinery, such as cranes, preferred.
• Production speeds exceed training / learning pace and often looks for improvement in processes.