B Class Structural Welder

Reports to: Fabrication Supervisor

Responsibilities

• Understand directions and follow instructions.
• Accountable for completion of daily work assignments including the completion and signatures for work completion and quality.
• Maintains cleanliness and organization on assigned job sites.
• Performs grinding and joint preparation that meet the criteria for NDE and all visual inspection processes.
• Monitors working environment for compliance with quality, safety, environmental and health regulations.
• Willing to work with and train lower-skilled workers.
• May be assigned to work any shift.
• May be assigned tasks including outside the craft as required.
• Performs the approved WPQT’s under limited supervision.
• Performs grinding along with arc gouging and back gouging of steel welds through mechanical, flame, and ARC gouging process, joint preparation for NDE and all other visual inspection processes.
• Demonstrates the safe and effective use of craft related tools and equipment, including but not limited to: milling discs, cutting torches, arc gougers, plate magnets, general fitting aids, sanders, grinders, burr motors, band saws, skill saws, saws all, come along and chain falls.
• Complies with company, federal, state, and local safety and environmental rules and regulations while performing daily job tasks.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 months experience as a Trades Assistant at Austal or 1 year related experience in similar industry required or graduate of a relevant/associated training course.
• Completion of an Austal USA approved additional or accelerated Structural Welding training course may also count towards additional required experience.
• Must pass the GMAW Aluminum ‘B’ Class and/or an FCAW Steel ‘B’ Weld Certification and approved B Class pre-employment mock weld test.
• Must demonstrate an acceptable proficiency and competency to Austal Supervision for a B Class Welder position.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and measure using the metric system.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Two years of maritime experience.
• Ability to work any shift or overtime as required by management; schedule must be flexible.
• 18 years of age or older at time of application.
• Able to provide proof of US Person Status.
• No felony convictions of Theft/Deception or Violent crimes within seven years from disposition date.
• No felony convictions of Drug crimes within three years from disposition date.
• Willing to submit to a drug screen.
• Willing to submit to a background check.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to tour all vessels and work sites.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to manipulate, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb and balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to sit.
• Ability to bend, squat, stoop, crawl, and kneel.
• Perform prolonged standing.
• Ability to turn head from side to side and about the vertical axis.
• Ability to turn body at the waist from side to side and about the vertical axis.
• Lift/push/pull 50lbs to 75lbs on an occasional basis.
• Lift/push/pull up to 20lbs on a frequent basis.
• Ability to climb in a safe manner (climbing as a minimum includes stairs, scaffolding, ladders, and ramps).
• Ability to work at heights above 12’ while working from ladders, scaffolding and/or man lifts.
• Able to work at a variety of levels (e.g., waist, eye, overhead).
• Demonstrate the ability to safely and appropriately use required tools and equipment.
• Demonstrate good balance while working on uneven surfaces and maneuvering obstacles.
• Possess sufficient handgrip and coordination to carry and operate tools and equipment.
• Ability to utilize personal protective equipment (hard hat, safety glasses, steel-toes shoes, goggles, respirator, safety harness, safety line, flotation gear, etc.) safely per OSHA standards.
• Ability to withstand cold and hot temperatures.
• Ability to enter 18” x 36” openings and work in confined spaces for prolonged periods of time.
• Able to respond to verbal and audible sounds/commands.
• Able to utilize adequate visual skills.
• Ability to fully extend the arm while reaching overhead, reaching out, reaching to the side and reaching down.
• Ability to perceive attributes of an object/material such as size, shape, temperature and texture by means of receptors in the hands and fingers.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, high precarious places, outside weather conditions, and extreme heat.
• Occasionally exposed to fumes and/or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and heat and cold.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.