Steel Welder

Position Summary

Steel Welder at St Johns Ship Building, Inc. is responsible for welding components of ships and completing repairs or new builds on time, to specifications, and within project scope. Duties include operating safety equipment, welding in various positions, inspecting work pieces, and following company policies.

Responsibilities

• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Lie out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
• Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
• Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
• Fill holes and increase the size of metal parts.
• Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
• Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
• Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process.
• Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across work pieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
• Preheat work pieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
• Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
• Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.

Qualifications

• Six months to one-year related experience.
• Must pass AWS certification within the first 60 days on the job.
• High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED).

What We Have to Offer

• Starting pay is $18+ per hour, based on experience.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.
• Cost Savings and Worksite Benefits:
• Company paid Medical Gap Insurance.
• Company paid Short Term Disability.
• Company paid Basic Life and AD&D.
• 401K with Company Match.
• Paid holidays.
• Personal and Vacation time.

HYSICAL DEMANDS

• Vision (Near, Distance, Peripheral, Depth Perception).
• Sense of Sound (hear alarms and radios).
• Sense of Touch.
• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (safety glasses, hard hats, steel toed shoes, gloves).

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Outdoor Environment.
• Excessive Heat.
• Excessive Cold.

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