Welder/Metal Fabricator

About the role

Virginia MetalFab is seeking a dedicated and skilled individual to lead the Welder/Metal Fabricator team. This role involves fabricating, positioning, aligning, and fitting parts of structural metal products, as well as setting up and operating various fabrication machines.

Responsibilities

• Study engineering drawings, blueprints, and other instructions to determine materials requirements, task sequences, and operational methods.
• Measure dimensions of completed products and verify conformance to specifications using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
• Align and fit parts and workpieces according to specifications using jacks, turn buckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
• Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
• Move parts into position manually or with hoists or cranes.
• Set up and utilize jigs, fixtures, welding torches, hand tools, and welding equipment.
• Set up and operate fabricating machines such as brakes, rolls, shears, plasma cutters, grinders, punch press, manual milling machine, radial arm drill press, plate rolling machine, manual lathe, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components.
• Lay out and examine metal stock, parts, or workpieces to be processed and prepare assembly to ensure specifications are met.
• Inspect products and ensure proper assembly.
• Cut, clean, fit up, and tack-weld aluminum, stainless steel, and carbon steel parts together.
• Remove high spots and cut bevels using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches.
• Straighten warped or bent parts, shape, or reshape metal workpieces to established specifications using hammers and small hand tools, sledges, hand torches, and straightening presses.
• Mount attachments, materials, or tools onto production equipment.
• Assemble temporary equipment or structures.
• Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
• Draw guidelines or markings on materials or workpieces using patterns or other references.
• Design and construct templates, patterns, work aides, and fixtures using hand tools.
• Hammer, chip, and grind workpieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal.
• Inspect products and ensure proper assembly.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Ability to wear various forms of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Ability to lift/carry up to and including 51-100 lbs.
• Ability to push/pull up to and including 41-100 lbs.
• 6-12 months of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Technical skills - ability to set up and operate machinery, good math skills, and ability to work from blueprints.
• Computer skills - ability to use Microsoft Suite, basic computer skills.
• Certification, licensure - forklift operator.
• Communication, oral - ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
• Accountability - ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Accuracy - ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Safety awareness - ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.
• Research skills - ability to design and conduct a systematic, objective, and critical investigation.
• Problem solving - ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
• Innovative - ability to look beyond the standard solutions.
• Conceptual thinking - ability to think in terms of abstract ideas.
• Analytical skills - ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.

Qualifications

• Necessary qualifications include a high school diploma or GED.
• Must possess the ability to wear various forms of PPE.
• Must be able to lift/carry up to and including 51-100 lbs.
• Must have 6-12 months of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must have technical skills such as the ability to set up and operate machinery, good math skills, and ability to work from blueprints.
• Must have computer skills, including the ability to use Microsoft Suite and basic computer skills.
• Must hold a forklift operator certification.
• Must have strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must demonstrate accountability, accuracy, and safety awareness.
• Must possess research, problem-solving, innovative, conceptual thinking, analytical, and technical skills.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Health insurance coverage.
• Dental insurance coverage.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Disability insurance coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
• Retirement savings plans.
• Paid time off.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Work-life balance initiatives.

Pay

Competitive compensation package.

Schedule

Monday – Friday, 6:00am-2:30pm.