1st Class Structural Welder (R/O)
Bollinger Shipyards · Pascagoula, MS · 2 mo ago
ManagementFull-time
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
- Six (6) months to one (1) year of Marine experience in welding is required.
Skills
- Capable of helping to 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.