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welder 1st class

Fairlead
Portsmouth, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/24/2025 CLOSED ON 12/24/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the welder 1st class position at Fairlead?

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

  • Plan, lay out, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal parts, equipment, and products, utilizing knowledge of working characteristics of metallic and nonmetallic materials, machining, and layout techniques.
  • Use hand tools, power tools, machines, and equipment.
  • Read, and interpret blueprints, sketches, or product specifications to determine sequence and methods of fabricating, assembling, and installing sheet metal products.
  • Select gauges, types, and quantities of materials according to product specification.
  • 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.
  • Cut, grind, file, deburr, smooth, and polish surfaces using hand, and power tools.
  • Install assemblies in supportive framework according to blueprints, and sketches, using hand tools, power tools, and lifting, and handling devices.
  • Responsible for keeping work area, machines, and equipment safe, clean, and in good working order.
  • Experience with the MIG steel for GMAW weld procedures.

Qualifications

  • Proficient with the use of trade related hand tools as well as power tools.
  • Must be able to comprehend instructions.

Minimum Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent

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.

Fairlead Integrated, LLC. and its subsidiaries are proud to be Equal Employ Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers (Minority / Female / Disability / Veterans).

TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION, GO HERE: https://fairleadint.com/employment-application/

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