Welder - Shops

Why TACORA?

Tacora Resources Inc. (Tacora) is an innovative iron ore mining and development company, with our processing facility located at Scully Mine in Wabush, NL, Canada, servicing high demand from customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

As a Tacora Resources employee, you will become part of a supportive, performance‐driven, highly engaged, dynamic environment. We focus on creating a work environment where employees can utilize their skills and knowledge while maintaining a team-based, inclusive approach to meeting greater challenges. We maintain straight lines of communication between our operations and management, so we can move collectively toward achieving our goals.

With our core values as the foundation of our Canadian operations, we are passionate about innovation, and we are excited about our future. We are collaborative in our approach to projects and with our entrepreneurial spirit, we aim to dig deeper and reach higher. We are innovative, turning obstacles into opportunities – and we do it all in ways that are safe and sustainable. We place the highest priority on employee safety, protecting the environment, and enhancing the development of the communities where we operate. At TACORA, we are a team.

At TACORA, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and diverse work environment. You will be provided with the opportunity to expand your knowledge and skillset working alongside dedicated employees from a variety of backgrounds and cultures.

We are seeking qualified individuals for the role of Welder – Shops. This position will start off as Monday-Friday 8-4 and will transition to a 7/7 schedule.

Job Responsibilities:

- Consistently and diligently practices workplace safety.

- Performs take five at least once per shift or as required by changing job conditions.

- Performs hourly safety and maintenance checks, logs on shift reports.

- Cleans assigned area as scheduled and/or required.

- Advises Supervisor/Superintendent or Maintenance department of any requirements for maintenance or repair.

- Participates in routine maintenance as assigned.

- Follows all environmental and safety policies as well as policies outlined in the employee handbook.

- Immediately stops, reports, and controls any environmental spills.

- Performs all other duties assigned by supervision while demonstrating an authentic team player attitude.

- Maintain a neat and organized work area.

- Routinely makes informed judgment calls and performs work in the best interest of safe production.

- Analyze basic engineering drawings and specifications to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.

- Weld components in flat, horizontal, vertical, or overhead positions as certified by CWB.

- Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments using processes such as gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW), gas metal arc welding (GMAW), flux-cored arc welding (FCAW), plasma arc welding (PAW), shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), oxy-acetylene welding (OAW), resistance welding and submerged arc welding (SAW).

- Operate manual or semi-automatic flame-cutting equipment.

- Operate brazing and soldering equipment.

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

- Operate Plasma cutting table.

Skills and Qualifications:

- Knowledge of plant equipment repair.

- Ability to use and maintain tools and equipment repair.

- Knowledge of mining performance and systems.

- CWB All position certification an asset.

Education:

- Completion of a Welding Program

- JP Preferred

License:

Driver's License (Required)

We are an equal opportunity employer!

Only those candidates who most align with the ideal candidate profile will be contacted by Tacora Resources for an interview