CARPENTER CRAFT WKR - WELDER

San Antonio Shoe Inc • San Antonio, TX

19h • Onsite

About The Position

San Antonio Shoemakers (SAS), a San Antonio, Texas based company, has been in business for 50 years and has developed a reputation as a premier American manufacturer of high quality comfort footwear. SAS has an opening for an experienced Welder.

Requirements

• Basic mathematics skills
• Basic knowledge of welding symbols and blueprint reading skills
• Ability to work with complicated welding tools
• Proficient in monitoring the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating or warping of parts.
• Ability to examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Able to lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Preheat work pieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with welding dies or instruments/ equipment utilized within a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Welding certification preferred ( American Welding Society)
• Forklift experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Cutting and joining metal parts for fabricating or repairing manufacturing equipment, tools, and various other articles
• Designing and fabricating the equipment and parts for meeting the special or unusual needs, using the manufacturer specifications, calculator, measuring devices, drawings, etc.
• Installing or removing any special equipment like grinders, power and hand tools, etc.
• Designing and creating holding jigs that aid in fabrication of the parts in various numbers
• Maintaining a record of all the work completed
• Maintaining routine inventory of supplies used for operating the welding unit via inspection of stocks and ordering fresh stock as and when required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed