Welder 1/Class - (35)

Summary: A 1st Class welder is a highly skilled and experienced professional capable of performing complex welding, fabrication, and repair work with minimal supervision.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform a variety of welding processes, including SMAW (stick), FCAW (flux-core), GMAW (MIG), and GTAW (TIG), on various metals such as carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum.
• Expertly read and interpret complex engineering drawings, blueprints, and weld symbols to determine job requirements and proper welding procedures.
• Select, measure, and prepare metal stock. This includes using cutting and grinding equipment to clean, bevel, and fit parts together with high precision.
• Lay out and mark dimensions and reference lines on material, using scribes, dividers, squares, tape / ruler, and protractors, applying knowledge of shop mathematics and layout techniques to develop and trace patterns of product or parts
• Shape metal material over anvil, blocks, or other forms, using heat, and hand tools
• Install assemblies in supportive framework according to blueprints, and sketches, using hand tools, power tools, and lifting, and handling devices
• Inspect finished work to ensure it meets quality standards, specifications, and tolerances. This involves examining welds.
• Proficiently set up and operate manual and semi-automatic welding equipment, as well as associated machinery like overhead cranes, forklifts, and grinders.
• Perform basic and preventative maintenance on welding machines and other shop equipment.
• Adhere strictly to all safety regulations, including wearing required personal protective equipment.

Qualifications:

• Understand metallurgy and how different welding processes and heat affect various metals. Must be skilled in advanced problem-solving, planning welding sequences, and minimizing distortion.
• Have a steady hand and strong manual dexterity to perform precision work and produce high-quality welds.
• Effectively follow written and verbal instructions and communicate with supervisors and team members.

Minimum Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 3-5 years of welding experience preferred.

Physical Demands:

While performing these job duties, the employee is routinely required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; use fingers and hands to type or write; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Must be able to lift 50 pounds.

Work Environment:

This position is performed in a shop environment, with some local travel between facilities.