Combination Welder - Austin Industrial (Corpus Christi, TX)

Austin Careers•Corpus Christi, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States.
4 years of Journeyman-level experience.
A Weld Test.
A Valid Driver’s License.
Employees must be able to sit, stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, and use hands and fingers to perform assigned duties.
Positions may require lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling up to 50 pounds, working at elevations, on uneven surfaces, or in confined spaces.
Employees must possess sufficient visual, hearing, communication, and motor skills to safely perform job responsibilities.
Employees must be able to read, comprehend, and follow safety procedures, work instructions, and company policies; exercise sound judgment; solve problems; maintain attention to detail; effectively manage stress; and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
Employees must be able to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and meet all customer, site, regulatory, medical, and fitness-for-duty requirements applicable to the position.
Must be able to perform all job duties while maintaining a constant commitment to safety, quality, and productivity expectations.

Responsibilities

Join metal parts, such as pipe or metal plates as specified by layout, blueprints, work orders, welding procedures or oral instructions through the application of heat or electric-arc-welding equipment.
Use spot welding gun or hand, electric, or gas welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.
Unite pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turn valves to release mixture.
Reach expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.
Preheat work pieces for the preparation of welding or curving, using torch.
Fill holes or correct mistakes in lead pieces and make bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
Check the weakness of work pieces and measure work pieces with straightedge or template to ensure the piece meets specifications.
Climb up ladders or work on scaffolds to take apart textures.
Give signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces.
Use thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torch or plasma-arc equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
Use hoist, crane, wire and banding machine, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
Choose place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
Instruct and bring flame or electrodes on or across work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.
Join pieces together, cover up taut points, and add metal to develop parts.
Perform other duties as assigned.