Custom Fitter Welder I - Weekend: Days

About the role

We’re hiring skilled Fitter Welders to join our Brenham Valmont team! If you’re looking for a hands-on production career with competitive starting pay, opportunities to grow your earnings, and long-term stability, we’d like to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Uses GMAW process to tack weld various small components to round or square shafts to make a pole assembly and SAW process for structural welds.
• The pole assembly generally consists of a square, round, press broke shaft, base plate, hand hole, arm mounting simplex, hanging vangs, brackets, ladder clips, and/or other small parts.
• Manually position shaft on stationary turner to position shaft for assembly.
• Uses jib crane for lifting various components, such as base plate and arm mounting simplex, into position for assembly.
• Frequently pushes, lifts, and pulls up to 50 pounds.
• Reads and interprets drawings to determine parts needed to assemble pole assembly.
• Locate and gather parts needed for assembly, from parts staging area that is staged by the Storeroom personnel.
• Read and interpret drawings to ensure proper location of various small part attachments.
• Uses plasma torch to cut steel.
• Utilizes jigs made at Valmont for cutting holes in shafts for inserting hand hole rims, arm mounting simplex’s, couplings, and other small parts.
• Wears protective goggles or hood to protect eyes from harmful rays.
• Uses measuring tape, levels, squares, and angle finders to measure distances and angles.
• Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides feet, inches, fractions, and decimals.
• Uses table to convert fractions to decimals, and decimals to fractions.
• Works in confined areas at various locations of the pole assembly line as necessary to accurately measure and assemble components described above.
• Moves under, around, and over poles as necessary, to get into proper position to assemble pole assembly.
• Uses motorized grinders, motorized buffers, stone grinders, and drills to help assemble product.
• Maintain appropriate professional competencies, certifications, licenses, etc., necessary to perform job.
• Make management aware of any training needs you have.
• Consult your management immediately if you are being asked to perform work for which you are not trained and/or are not comfortable doing because of potential safety or risk implications.
• Responsible and accountable for maintaining a clean and organized workplace while implementing LEAN practices.
• Demonstrated ability to setup, operate, and perform general maintenance of equipment without difficulty.
• Maintain an acceptable first pass yield percentage base on shop standards.

Requirements

• Must be able to read and write English.
• 3-5 years of experience fitting in a manufacturing or fabrication environment.
• Ability to calculate simple mathematics and use common manufacturing mathematics.
• 3 years experience reading and using blueprints.
• 3 years previous experience working in a manufacturing or fabrication environment, and/or have graduated from an acceptable Technical Training Program focused in welding.
• Must pass FCAW, GMAW, and SAW weld test and maintain certification.
• Ability to operate overhead cranes, prior experience preferred.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 5 years previous experience working in an assembly environment.
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