Welder/Fitter B - AlvU

About the role

At Sabre Industries, we connect and power America’s communities with world-class utility and telecom solutions. We reliably build a better world together; one customer, one team, and one community at a time. Our teams live out the organization’s core values of integrity, commitment, innovation, and connection. That’s how we continuously exceed our high standards of enterprise excellence—by creating a space for our engaged employees to thrive. With consistent hiring opportunities nationwide and countless career levels, chances are the next big step on your career path starts here. We work with our employees to create customized career paths and development in all facets of the organization. People will always be our greatest asset and we place emphasis on enhancing the lives of our employees.

Responsibilities

• Use the Flux Cored Arc Welding process to tack weld various small components to round or formed shafts to make a pole assembly for the welder to weld.
• The pole assembly generally consists of a round tube or formed shaft, baseplate, hand hole, arm mounting simplex, tenon top, vangs, step lugs, ladder clips, and/or other small parts.
• Work in Large Pole department on individual fitter station to assemble pole assembly.
• Assist material handler in loading round tube or formed shaft on individual fitter station.
• Read and interpret drawings to determine parts needed to assemble pole assembly.
• Locate and gather Storeroom Personnel staged parts needed for assembly from parts staging area.
• Frequently push, pull, and lift up to 50 pounds.
• Read and interpret drawing to assure proper location of various small part attachments.
• Layout various locations on round tube or formed shaft based upon interpretation of drawings and specifications.
• Use measuring tape, level, square, and angle finders to measure distances and angles.
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide feet, inches, fractions, and decimals; use table to convert fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions.
• Use plasma torch and oxy-fuel torch to cut steel.
• Use jigs made at Sabre/Texas for laying out vang slots and for cutting holes in shafts for inserting hand hole rims, arm mounting simplex, couplings, and other small parts.
• Wear protective goggles or welding hood to protect eyes from harmful rays.
• Move around round tube or formed shaft as necessary to get into proper position to accurately measure and assemble components, including standing on elevated platform when necessitated by the size of the shafts.
• Use motorized grinders, motorized buffers, stone grinders, and drills to help assemble pole assembly according to prescribed specifications, codes and drawing.
• Wear protective face shield and safety glasses to protect eyes and face.
• Adjust welding machine to achieve desired results within parameters of established welding procedures.
• Change tips, ceramic cups, and electrodes in plasma torch as needed to achieve desired cutting results.
• Finish weld various products of the unit to keep the product moving through the large pole department in a timely manner.
• Read and interpret weld symbols.
• Use oxy-fuel torch to preheat parts prior to welding; read codes and specifications to determine proper temperature and use instruments provided to measure temperature.
• Use chipping hammer, wire brush, motorized grinder, and motorized wire brush at various times to clean welded areas.
• Use pneumatic drills and magnetic drills to drill and ream various sizes holes in poles as required by the drawing.
• Wear protective equipment, including safety glasses, insulated welding gloves, welding cap