EC1012 Mig Welder

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Use hand welding and flame cutting equipment such as MIG welders, gas welders, and gas torches to weld together metal components (flat, horizontal, or vertical plates and pipes).
• Join together components of fabricated sheet metal assemblies, or cut or trim metal objects to dimensions as specified by layout, work orders, or blueprints.
• Build parts to print specifications with accuracy within stated tolerances.
• Meet or exceed production efficiency requirements as determined by each job.
• Layout tables and/or build jigs to blueprint specifications.
• Clean work area, machines, tools, and equipment.
• Work in a safe manner, wearing necessary welding hood, goggles, protective shoes, and other personal safety equipment.
• Perform other routine duties such as training, forklift operator, machine operator, etc.
• May perform other duties as requested and participate on project teams as requested.

Qualifications

Education/Experience Required: Vocational, Trade School and/or at least six (6) months on-the-job training. Ability to meet or exceed production standards.

Skills and Knowledge

• Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Basic Math: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Ability to determine the number of individual things in a unit or group.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear.
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms.
• Moderately required to climb or balance.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, or sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Lifting Frequency: Medium heavy lifting up to 80 lbs. maximum, with frequent lifting and/or carrying objects up to 40 lbs. (67-100% of the time). Ability to stack objects head high.
• Vision: Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Repetitive Hand Action: Firm grasping with approximate grip strength of 45-60 lbs. on a hand dynamometer.
• Fine Manipulation of Hands/Fingers: Sufficient coordination to place and screw a small washer on a bolt, pick up a clip from a desktop, or pick up a dime off a counter top.
• Ability to work in two-person teams.

Work Environment

• Frequently works near and/or with moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and vibration.
• May be exposed to extreme heat conditions due to safety clothing and eye protection equipment.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.