Welder

PF Holdings•Eighty Four, PA

88d

About The Position

ProFrac Services, a PF Holdings company based in Willow Park, Texas, operates across major U.S. oil and gas regions and uses custom equipment for hydraulic fracturing. The Welder uses hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to join metal components or fill holes, indentations, and seams in fabricated metal products. The role includes welding in flat, vertical, or overhead positions and operating manual or semi-automatic equipment and common hand and power tools. Work is performed in a demanding environment, with a stated schedule of 40–60 hours per week, frequent overtime, and occasional six-day weeks depending on workload. The position is expected to be held for at least two years, depending on prior experience, before promotion to Welder II. Duties may change with the employer’s needs. ProFrac Services is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent preferred, but not required.
At least one year of related work skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience or vocational training preferred, but not required.
Must remain in the position for at least two years, depending on prior experience, before promoting to Welder II.
Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.
Sensitivity to confidential information.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Ability to read, speak, and write English.
Strong physical and mental health to maintain a demanding workload; ability to work under stressful conditions at times.
Ability to climb stairs and use hands and arms to handle, install, position, and move materials and manipulate objects.
Ability to wear common protective or safety equipment, including safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats when needed, and welding safety equipment.
Strong work ethic, integrity, honesty, commitment to excellence, and communication skills.
Ability to obtain information from relevant sources; identify and categorize information, recognize similarities and differences, and detect changes in circumstances or events.
Ability to analyze information, evaluate results, choose solutions, solve problems, and resolve conflicts and minor problems.
Dependability, reliability, and ability to fulfill responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or equivalent.
At least one year of related work skills, knowledge, and hands-on experience or vocational training.

Responsibilities

Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals to complete electrical circuits.
Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, and/or bolt component parts into required configurations and positions for welding.
Detect faulty equipment operation or defective materials and notify supervisors.
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, resistance, and submerged arc welding.
Monitor fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating, warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
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.
Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies before assembly using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
Perform other related duties as required.