Welder
Viper USA•West Lafayette, IN
•$20 - $21
About The Position
The Welder cuts and joins metals and/or other materials. The role operates appropriate equipment to weld together or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.
Requirements
- Understand and interpret blueprints.
- At least 2 years of past welding experience.
- Ability to utilize time management skills.
Responsibilities
- Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits while performing job functions.
- Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
- Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
- Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
- Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
- Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, and resistance welding.
- Monitor fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of materials.
- Examine work pieces for defects and measure them with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
- 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.
- Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
- Perform routine quality inspections per procedure.
- Perform other relevant duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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