Welder (Nights)

LED FastStart • Livingston, LA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Use hand-welding or flame cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. This role requires adherence to safety and environmental guidelines, policies, and regulations. The welder will clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt component parts, and remove rough spots from work pieces using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers. They will also feather or remove tacks using electric or pneumatic grinders prior to welding beading pass, and chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment. Welding will be performed in flat, vertical, or overhead positions, and the welder must operate safety equipment and use safe work habits. Manual or semi-automatic welding equipment will be used to fuse metal segments using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, and submerged arc welding.

Requirements

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

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