SPECIALTY WELDER - Austin Industrial (Olin - Plaquemine, La)

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial provides premier self‑perform maintenance, construction, and soft‑craft services to leading industrial companies across the United States. With more than 60 years of experience, the company delivers single‑source solutions to customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing sectors. Learn more about Austin Industrial.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Uses spot‑welding gun or hand, electric, or gas welding equipment to weld or tack‑weld pieces together.
• Unites pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turns valves to release the mixture.
• Reaches the expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning the torch and adjusting the flow of gas and air.
• Preheats work pieces for welding or curving, using a torch.
• Fills holes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
• Checks the weakness of work pieces and measures them with a straightedge or template to ensure they meet specifications.
• Climbs ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
• Gives signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces.
• Uses thermal‑cutting equipment such as a flame‑cutting torch or plasma‑arc equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
• Operates hoist, crane, wire‑ and banding‑machine, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
• Selects the weld location based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of the metal to protect the torch.
• Instructs and applies flame or electrodes across the work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.
• Joins pieces together, covers taut points, and adds metal to develop parts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands and Requirements

The employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. Frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and to talk, hear, taste, or smell. Regularly lifts and/or moves up to 25 lb and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 lb. Vision requirements include close, distance, peripheral, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Qualifications

• Education: No minimum education requirements.
• Experience: 4 years of journeyman‑level welding experience.
• Certifications/Licenses: A Weld Test, a valid driver’s license, and a TWIC card.
• Legal authorization to work for any employer in the United States; the company cannot sponsor employment visas.