Welder

We are seeking a Welder for the Lumberton NC area. Excellent opportunity for temp to perm position!

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Safe work habits, equipment, tools, environment.
• Utilize MIG and TIG welding on a positioner to weld various large components together to make various valves and assemblies.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to welded metals completing electrical circuits.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, ability to use straight edges, combination squares, calipers, and rules.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisor.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion or material.
• Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces to ensure conformance with specifications and or drawing.
• Operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
• Ability to connect regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, paint or other foreign matter.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, according to welding chart specifications or type and thickness of metals.
• Position and secure work pieces, using hoists, cranes, wire and banding machines or hand tools.
• Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
• Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.

EDUCATION:

• ·High school diploma or GED
• 3+ years of related experience and/or training or equivalent of education and experience.

EXPERIENCE AND REQUIRED SKILLS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• ·Must have the knowledge and ability to pipe/flange/position weld.
• Must be able to identify specified parts to build the product.
• Must be able to read blueprints and electrical schematics.
• Must be able to follow instructions.
• Demonstrable ability to use hand tools.
• Ability to work independently or with a team.
• Ability to demonstrate safe work practices.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Regularly required to talk or hear.
• Frequently required to stand; walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Performing physical activates that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping and handling of materials.