Combination Welder - Austin Industrial (Baytown, TX)

Austin Careers•Baytown, TX

3d•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

4 years of Journeyman-level experience.
A Weld Test
A Valid Driver’s License
A TWIC Card
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

Uses spot welding gun or hand, electric, or gas welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.
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.
Checks the weakness of work pieces and measures work pieces with straightedge or template to ensure the piece meets specifications.
Climbs up ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
Gives signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces.
Uses thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torch or plasma-arc equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
Uses hoist, crane, wire and banding machine, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
In order to protect the torch chooses place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
Instructs and brings flame or electrodes on or across work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.
Joins pieces together, covers up taut points, and adds metal to develop parts.
Other duties as assigned.