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. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial.

Responsibilities

• Uses Gas-Metal Arc, Flux-Cored Arc, Gas-Tungsten Arc, Submerged Arc or Shielded Metal Arc welding processes.
• Unites pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turns valves to release mixture.
• Reaching expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.
• Preheats work pieces for the preparation of welding or curving, using torch.
• Fills holes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
• Manually apply filler rod to supply weld metal.
• May 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 scrapper, grinder or power chipper.
• Climbs up ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
• In order to protect the torch chooses place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education – no minimum education requirements.
• Experience – 2-4 years of Journeyman level experience.
• Physical demands – 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.
• Legal authorization – applicants must be legally authorized to work for any employer in the United States; Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.