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Welder & Fabricator
This role is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Want to continue to grow and enhance your career within a locally owned company? Do you strive to achieve high performance and enjoy making an impact on the community where integrity and excellence is valued and where you can take your career to the next level?
Then, we have a place for you!
What We Offer:
- Exciting innovative, collaborative, and team-oriented work environment
- Challenging and progressive career development
- Competitive salaries
- Comprehensive Health & Benefit programs
- Retirement Program with Employer Match!
- Best practice Paid Time Off policies and paid holidays
- Open communication and team-building events
- And much more to motivated, results-oriented individuals who want to make a real difference in their community and role
What You'll Do:
As the Welder and Fabricator, you will assemble and fabricate stainless steel and aluminum components, following specifications, in a timely and efficient way.
Your Accountabilities in the Role:
- Performs the setup and maintenance of the welding equipment and fixtures to meet product specifications.
- Performs welding activities to weld parts in a high-quality manner, verifying print specifications on each job.
- Operates the forklift and/or overhead crane to safely move materials to and from storage areas.
- Updates, records and reports on various data, including steel scrap reports, QC Sheets, production cards, and annual inventory, ensuring accurate information and product counts.
- Performs quality checks utilizing precision measuring tools and gauges on all finished products to ensure quality expectations are achieved.
Position Requirements:
- Education: A HS Diploma or GED preferred; will consider an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
- Experience: 2 years of welding and fabricating experience with MIG and TIG mild steel, aluminum and stainless steel. Light gage sheet metal experience is required. Structural, Shear, press brake, and iron worker experience would be a plus.
- Certifications: Ability to be forklift/crane certified.
- Functional Skills: Strong mechanical skills; high attention to detail with an ability to read, understand, and apply procedures, specifications, blue prints and bill of material; Strong problem-solving skills; Basic math and counting skills are required. Critical thinking to solve issues independently or by getting assistance to ensure accuracy is important.
- Technology Skills: Basic computer skills.
- Language Skills:Basic reading, writing and verbal communication skills.
- Leadership/ Behaviors: Demonstrated high work ethic and value system, focused on quality, safety and accuracy.
- Culture Match: Respectful of team members and policies, goal and customer-focused; has the ability to stay focused on quality, as well as producing and enhancing efficiencies within the team. Requires an excellent work ethic to lead by example.
Other Important Information:
Pay/Salary: Pay is commensurate with proven expertise.
And, the compensation will grow as the team member grows!
Reports To: Plant Manager
Core Hours: 6:00 am – 4:30 pm
Typical Work Week: Monday to Thursday; Fridays are for OT and required at this time; 40-45 hours a week on average
Direct Reports: None
Travel: None
Work Conditions: Manufacturing environment with moderate to high noise level, PPE required.
Salary : $35 - $40