Welder (Nights)

Epic Piping • Livingston, LA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

This position involves using hand-welding or flame cutting equipment to weld or join metal components, or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. The role requires adherence to safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and regulations. Responsibilities include clamping, holding, tack-welding, heat-bending, grinding, or bolting component parts, as well as removing rough spots and excess weld material. Welders will operate safety equipment, use safe work habits, and perform welding processes in various positions. The job also involves operating manual or semi-automatic welding equipment for processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, and submerged arc welding.

Requirements

• 1 plus years of experience in Welding
• General knowledge of tools, equipment, blueprints, models, and technical plans (for Welder I)
• General knowledge of machines, designs, repair, and maintenance (for Welder I)
• Maintain a rejection rate of 5% or below (for Welder I)
• 2-3 years of pipe welding experience (for Welder II)
• Extensive knowledge of design techniques, production of technical plans, blueprints, models, and drawings (for Welder II)
• Extensive knowledge of materials, methods, and principals involved in the production of precise technical designs, uses and maintenance (for Welder II)
• Must possess the ability to perform at least three (3) processes (for Welder II)
• Maintain a rejection rate of 4% or below (for Welder II)
• Must be able to perform in most bays (for Welder II)
• 3-4 plus years of pipe welding experience (for Welder III)
• Expert knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance (for Welder III)
• Expert knowledge of design techniques, methods, production of precision technical plans, blueprints, and drawings (for Welder III)
• Must possess the ability to perform and be efficient in three (3) processes (for Welder III)
• Maintain a rejection rate of 3% or below (for Welder III)
• Must be able to perform in all bays (for Welder III)
• 5 plus years of pipe welding experience (for Welder IV)
• Expert knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair and maintenance (for Welder IV)
• Expert knowledge of design techniques, methods, production of precision technical plans, blueprints, and drawings (for Welder IV)
• Must possess the ability to perform and be efficient in three (3) processes (for Welder IV)
• Maintain a rejection rate of 3% or below (for Welder IV)
• Must be able to perform in all bays (for Welder IV)
• Quality of Work - Demonstrates competence in required job skills and knowledge; accuracy, clarity, consistency, and thoroughness of work; gives feedback for continuous improvement of work product; understanding and mastery of processes, methods, systems, and procedures.
• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Productivity - Met previously established goals and objectives.
• Analytical Skills - Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.
• Dependability - Takes responsibility for own actions; completed assignments in an ethical and mature manner.
• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Autonomy - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Time Management - Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.
• Detail Oriented - Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
• Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.

Nice To Haves

• High School Graduate or General Education Degree (GED)

Responsibilities

• Comply with safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and regulations.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts.
• Remove rough spots from work pieces, using portable grinders, hand files or scrapers.
• Feather or remove tacks using electric or pneumatic, grinders prior to welding beading pass.
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments using processes, such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, and submerged arc welding.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED