Welder

1.       Job Title:  Welding Foreman

2.       Job Duties and Responsibilities:

o        Accomplishes manufacturing staff results by scheduling and assigning personnel, accomplishing work results, communicating job expectations and priorities; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results

o        Operates equipment safely and uses safe work habits while performing job function

o        Assigns work according to priorities

o        Monitors performance of employees that he supervises.

o        Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions

o        Clamps, holds, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.

o        Operates manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas metal arc, and flux-cored arc, plasma arc, aluminum welding, and stick welding.

o        Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts of warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of materials.

o        Will lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembling to ensure the finished assembly will match the drawing and meet customer’s specifications

o        Create temporary custom jigs as needed throughout the assembly process to ensure quality of parts as they are assembled. 

o        Uses calibrated measuring tools to verify assemblies are made to the drawing and within tolerances to ensure conformance with customer’s specifications

o        Performs maintenance when required

o        Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

o        Other duties as required

3.       Qualifications: 

o        Must be able to weld using gas metal arc, and flux-cored arc, plasma arc, aluminum welding, and stick welding.  Experience in Tig welding is a plus. 

o        Must understand proper use of hand tools and calibrated measuring tools  

o        Must be able to lift 50 Lbs.

o        Must be able to stand up to 90% of the day.

o        Must be able to work in unheated or non-air conditioned areas.

o        Must be able to read blueprints.