Pipe Fitter

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• A welder must understand welding procedures and parameters.
• Can comprehend and utilize blueprints, sketches, drawings, and technical manuals, gouge, and work process instruction.
• Welds steel plates and pipes in the repair and/or construction of marine vessels, industrial components, and associated equipment.
• Have the skills to use various types of welding equipment for different types of metal.
• Welds components in a flat, vertical, or overhead position.
• Performs related tasks such as cutting and grinding.
• Repairs broken or cracked parts, fills holes, and increases the size of metal parts.
• Welds metal parts together using gas welding, brazing, arc welding, wire fed welding, or tig welding process and procedures.
• Highly skilled welders often are trained to work with a wide variety of materials, such as titanium, aluminum, or exotic metals, in addition to steel.
• Select and set up welding equipment, execute the planned welds, and examine the welds to ensure that they meet standards or specifications.

Required Education & Experience

• High School Diploma, some college or technical school certification, six months to one year(s) experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must pass an ABS, or ASME weld test.

Working Conditions

• Open-air conditions such as noisy, hot, cold, etc.
• Must be able to stand and operate equipment for up to four continuous hours.
• You must wear hearing, eye, head protection and proper PPE.
• Some climbing (100 feet or higher) and lifting (50 lbs.) involved.
• Working with hot and sometimes hazardous materials.
• Work on inland and offshore barges or in industrial settings.
• Enter round manholes with inside diameters of 18", and other internally confined spaces.
• Traverse gangways and scaffolding at varying heights.

Necessary Equipment Operation

• Blow torches - Motorized cutting torches; Pattern cutting torches; Welding torches.
• Gas welding, brazing, or cutting apparatus - Brazing equipment; Heliarc welding equipment; Oxyacetylene equipment; Portable gas operated arc welders.
• Manlift or personnel lift - hydraulic truck lifts; Swing stages.
• Welding masks - Hand shields; Welding shields.

Qualifications

Class will be based upon judgment by quality control and/or production management in terms of the quality and productivity of the welds.

• Plate Welder 2nd Class (PLW2) - Welder capable of welding SMAW or FCAW on plate/structural with ABS Q2+4G or ASME or AWS plate test (2G+3G+4G).
• Plate Welder 1st Class (PLW1) - Welder capable of welding SMAW & FCAW on plate/structural with ABS Q2+4G or ASME or AWS plate test (2G+3G+4G).
• Pipe Welder 2nd Class (PPW2) - Welder capable of welding SMAW or FCAW on plate/structural & SMAW or FCAW on pipe with ABS Q3 or AWS 6g pipe test.
• Pipe Welder 1st Class (PPW1) - Welder capable of welding SMAW & FCAW and or GTAW on pipe. Must Pass ABS Q3 or ASME 6G or AWS 6G pipe test.
• Combination Welder 1st Class - Pipe/Plate/Structural (PPLW) - Welder capable of process / structural pipe and plate welding using GTAW+FCAW and or GTAW+SMAW.
• Combination Welder 2nd Class - Pipe/Plate/Structural (PPLW) - Welder capable of process / structural pipe and plate welding using GTAW+FCAW and or GTAW+SMAW.