The Welder is responsible for maintaining, fabricating, and repairing structural components of heavy equipment at the Beaver Excavating Company.

Main Job Tasks & Responsibilities

• Follows all corporate safety guidelines
• Operates saws, shears, cranes and other shop equipment as needed
• Fabricates, welds, grinds and burns numerous types of metals
• Maintains shop floor organization and cleanliness

• Goes on service calls that may sometimes require an individual to stay out of town for a short period (service calls pay additional wages per hour as an incentive)
• Other tasks as assigned

Skills & Requirements

• Strong fabrication background
• Experience with welding, burning and equipment operation

• Willingness and ability to work on various types of equipment that would, at times, not require any fabricating
• Willingness and ability to occasionally stay out of town for short periods of time
• Willingness and ability to work a minimum of 50 hours per week on average
• More fabrication skills than welding skills 
• Be able to read a tape measure accurately to the nearest 1/16” 

• Be very proficient in stick welding
• Mig welding experience
• Very proficient in carbon arc/air arc gouging 
• Experience in using lancing rods 
• General knowledge of hard facing applications on heavy dirt moving equipment 

• Know how to pull and calculate angles
• Heavy plate fabrication experience 
• Experience using iron workers/drill press/press brakes 
• Overhead crane experience

Education & Experience

• 2-5 years of structural and miscellaneous fabrication and welding
• AWS D1.1 Certification

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, and kneel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50-75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Equal Opportunity

The Beaver Companies provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.