TIG/Aluminum Welder- 4 Days, 10 Hour Shift

Position Overview

Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. Extensive TIG/Aluminum experience is a must.

Essential Job Functions

- Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.

- Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.

- Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.

- Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces 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.

- Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.

- Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.

- Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.

- Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.

- Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.

- Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.

- Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.

- 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 welding, and submerged arc welding.

- Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.

- Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.

- Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.

- Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.

- Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.

- Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.

- Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.

- Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.

- Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.

- Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.

- Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.

- Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.

- Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.

- Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts.

- Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.

- Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.

- Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.

- Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.

- Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment, such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.

Required Qualifications

- High School Diploma or equivalent

Desirable Qualifications

- Technical School Certificate in welding

- Minimum 1 year of experience

- Experience working with carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum alloys

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 - $23.00 per hour

Benefits:

- 401(k)

- Dental insurance

- Employee assistance program

- Health insurance

- Health savings account

- Life insurance

- Paid time off

- Referral program

- Vision insurance

License/Certification:

- Driver's License (Required)

Ability to Commute:

- Pulaski, TN 38478 (Required)

Work Location: In person