1st Class Structural Welder (Night Shift) (R/O)

Position Overview

The 1st Class Structural Welder welds together structural metal components as specified by blueprints, work orders, or oral instructions.

Key Responsibilities

• Obtains the appropriate tools needed for a particular job and subsequently sets up their equipment.
• Binds together structural metal components that have been pre-assembled and tacked into place.
• Performs good, cosmetic sound welds.
• Examines his/her work and may chip off excess weld, slag, and splatter with the appropriate tools (i.e., grinder, chipping hammer, etc.).
• Leaves little to no rework when job is complete (i.e., cold rolls, pin holes, wraps, burn thorough, etc.).
• Troubleshoots his/her equipment.
• May gouge to remove a member, make a seam sound, remove weld reinforcement, etc.

Qualifications

• Three (3) to five (5) years of Marine experience in welding preferred.

Skills And Abilities

• Able to help supervise a crew of welders.
• Certified in 3G and 4G in at least 3 or more of the following disciplines preferred: flux core, short arc, aluminum, aluminum Heli arc, stainless steel, carbon-to-stainless steel, and submerged arc.
• Able to make full penetration welds that will pass NDE Testing (i.e., x-ray, ultrasound, magnetic particles, dye penetrate).
• Able to lay out track marks.
• Able to identify most commonly used welding symbols.
• Able to gouge.