Welder

Welder Position Description:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operate safety equipment, and use safe work habits.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind and/or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as GMAW, GTAW, SMAW.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Examine work pieces for defects, and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Work Experience: Minimum 3 years related experience as a welder in a fabrication, manufacturing or structural environment; sheet metal.
• Candidate must have prior experience and knowledge of welding techniques including Welder-Fitter, GMAW/GTAW and be able to pass Navsea welder qualification testing.
• Knowledge of a wide range of welding principles, processes, and difficult techniques requiring complete penetration and fusion of base and filler metals.
• Ability to maintain dimensions and tolerances to specifications. Ability to weld dissimilar metals. Ability to weld parts and structures that vary in size, shape and thickness.

Experience Required:

• 3 year(s): Ability to weld parts and structures that vary in size, shape and thickness
• 3 year(s): Ability to weld dissimilar metals.
• 3 year(s): Ability to maintain dimensions and tolerances to specifications.
• 3 year(s): Knowledge of a wide range of welding principles, processes, and difficult techniques requiring complete penetration and fusion of base and filler metals.
• 3 year(s): Minimum 3 years related experience as a welder in a fabrication, manufacturing or structural environment.