Pipe Tacker

Essential Job Functions

• Assists fitter or fitter-welder to position, align, and fit together plates, structural shapes, piping, and weldments preparatory to assembly into fabricated products.
• Holds, positions, and reads a tape measure to assist in layout.
• Uses hammers, wedges, and pry bars, and come-alongs to align parts.
• Grinds or chips rough edges, surplus weld, rust, or scale, using a portable grinder or air chipper.
• Sets up welding leads from the welding machine to the proximity of where work is to be performed.
• Tack welds in flat, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and overhead positions. Manually guides electrode along weld line as specified by the fitter.
• Examines weld for proper bead size and characteristics.
• Marks reference lines or locations that are to be cut or drilled.
• Aids in installing packing, gaskets, liners, bearings, doors, hatches, brackets, shafts, wheels, rudders, coolers, anodes, and other structural accessories. May use hand or power tools.