Tank Fitter/Tacker

Responsibilities

• Pass Pre-employment drug & alcohol screen
• Unload fabricated steel products and tools from trucks or rail cars
• Operate electric and pneumatic power tools such as grinders, wire brushes, and chipping guns
• Perform basic and preventative maintenance functions on power equipment
• Use hand tools such as shovels, brooms, scrapers, hand brushes, files etc.
• Hook-on or move material around the field site by hand or with the assistance of a forklift or crane
• Align, fit, and tack steel shapes together utilizing temporary erection gear, fit-up (pry) bars, and sledgehammers
• Erect and dismantle temporary scaffolding used in steel plate construction
• Set up, break down, and rig lifting equipment such as mobile cranes and fixed derricks
• Set up and use oxy-fuel or plasma burning equipment to cut or trim plate and structural steel
• Weld operations to join the steel parts together in accordance with approved construction welding procedures using SMAW, FCAW and SAW processes
• Inspect, set up, use, break down, and rig equipment such as aerial work platforms (spider buggies), elevated work platforms, and staging
• Lay out and install tank accessories according to drawings and procedures

Qualifications

• Skilled in: Grinding, Oxy/Fuel Burning, Basic Fitting, Arc Gouging, Manlift / Scissor / Gondola / Spider Buggy Lift, Structural erection and fit-up, Tank Bottom/Lapped Plate - layout and fit, Tank fittings - layout and fit, Tank shell plate - erect and fit, Weld seam grinding
• Basic Carbon Steel SMAW Welding Qualification (Four Plate Test)
• Local Requirements: Typically 5+ years of relevant experience, Certification in Tacking Weld processes