Full Job Description

Job Title: Welder

FLSA Status: Hourly Non-Exempt Group: Regular – Full Time Department: Manufacturing Location: McPherson, KS

About Cooper Machinery Services:

Cooper Machinery Services provides natural gas compression equipment and services to customers globally in the Oil & Gas, Power, Transportation, and Marine sectors. With a proud heritage dating back to 1833, Cooper Machinery Services is the OEM for legendary product lines including Cooper-Bessemer™, Ajax™, Superior™, Gemini, TSI, CSI, Enterprise, and Joy. Headquartered in Houston, TX, but with commercial and services hubs around the world, Cooper Machinery Services provides world-class services to more than 22,000 units in its installed base.

Our strength is our people. Each employee plays an integral role in our success and growth. With a commitment to our vision that strong relationships drive strong results and better business, our people make Cooper Machinery Services legendary. Our current employees have an average 23 years employment with the company working in our state of the art climate controlled facilities.

 Job Overview:

Welder will support manufacturing/repair operations in our TSI Turbo Group; by performing work involving a high degree of precision and the use of hand welding equipment and proficiency in welding processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

In the role of a Welder, you will:

• Use templates, jigs, blueprints and/or other guides to repair, modify and/or fabricate repairs.
• Operate hand tools to cut, drill, bore, tap, ream, shape, grind,
• Ensure work is accomplished safely and care is exercised to avoid damage to tools and/or equipment.
• Manage metals to prevent distortion or metal burns, to meet dimensions, tolerances, strengths, and/or other requirements.
• Perform exceptionally high degree of skill so that welds pass very high standards of radiographic, ultrasound, magnetic particle imaging, and other testing procedures as deemed necessary by engineers
• Set-up, troubleshoot and operate welding machines according to job specifications and welding procedures
• Preheat and weld metal components as specified by blueprints, welding symbols, job specifications, or welding procedures.
• Make welding repairs using mig, tig, stick welding processes
• Proficient in flame and plasma cutting torches
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications/Requirements

• High School Diploma / GED from accredited school or institution
• Preference for welding experience in a manufacturing/repair environment, customer-focused in defining quality and establishing priorities
• Will train the right candidate

Eligibility Requirements:

• Operates various machine shop equipment to produce close tolerance machined parts to print specifications

• Preferable experience reading and understanding blueprints

• Promotes and supports safety, production, and positive attitude

Desired Characteristics

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• Experience operating a forklift, hand truck, and other equipment specific to duties.
• Self-Motivated
• Ability to work with minimal supervision

Cooper Machinery Services is an equal opportunity employer and gives all qualified applicants consideration of employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.