GENERAL HELPER

Responsibilities

• Lifts, positions, and removes workpieces from machines to assist in fitting and welding.
• Loads, stacks, and transports stock, tools, dies, and work in process by hand or truck.
• Cleans and scrapes metal preparatory to fabricating, welding, painting, or shipping.
• Picks up and trucks scrap from work areas.
• Cleans work area, machines, tools, and equipment.
• Perform other routine duties.
• Assist fellow employees as directed.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED), and/or 12 months experience.

Requirements

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form; ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Experience with equipment including overhead cranes, forklifts and hand grinders.
• Physical demands: regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear; frequently required to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; occasionally required to climb or balance; occasionally lift and/or move up to 57 lbs; occasionally push and/or pull a maximum force of 200 ft‑lb.
• Vision abilities: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Close mental and visual application required to interpret drawings, layout, plan work, and weld; good judgment in determining best method and procedure to be followed; able to work on jobs while applying safety rules at all times.