WELDER STRUCTURAL - Austin Industrial - Pensacola, FL

About the role

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. We offer single-source solutions in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

Responsibilities

• Join steel components or metal plates using blueprints, work orders, welding procedures, or oral instructions through the application of heat or electric arc-welding equipment.
• Use Gas-Metal Arc, Flux-Cored Arc, Gas-Tungsten Arc, Submerged Arc, or Shielded Metal Arc welding processes.
• Unite pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turn valves to release mixture.
• Adjust flow of gas and air to reach expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch.
• Preheat work pieces for welding or curving using torch.
• Fill holes or correct mistakes in lead pieces and make bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces; manually apply filler rod to supply weld metal.
• Clean or degrease weld joint or workplace using wire brush, portable grinder, or chemical bath.
• Remove excess weld, defective weld material, slag, and spatter using carbon arc gouge, hand scraper, grinder, or power chipper.
• Climb ladders or work on scaffolds to take apart textures.
• Choose place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal to protect the torch.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States (Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position).

Qualifications

• Education: No minimum education requirements.
• Experience: 2-4 years of Journeyman level experience.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• Regularly required to sit; 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; talk or hear; and taste or smell.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.