Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: This position is responsible for the following: Other duties may be assigned.
- A welder must understand welding procedures and parameters.
- Can comprehend and utilize blueprints, sketches, drawings, and technical. Manuals, gouge, and work process instruction.
- Welds steel plates and pipes in the repair and/or construction of marine vessels, industrial components, and associated equipment.
- Have the skills to use various types of welding equipment for different types of metal.
- Welds components in a flat, vertical, or overhead position.
- Performs related tasks such as cutting and grinding.
- Repairs broken or cracked parts, fills holes, and increases the size of metal parts.
- Welds metal parts together using gas welding, brazing, arc welding, wire fed welding, or tig welding process and procedures.
- Highly skilled welders often are trained to work with a wide variety of materials, such as titanium, aluminum, or exotic metals, in addition to steel.
- Select and set up welding equipment, execute the planned welds, and examine the welds to ensure that they meet standards or specifications.
Required Education & Experience: - High School Diploma, some college or technical school certification, six months to one year(s) experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Must pass an ABS, or ASME weld test.
Working Conditions: - Open-air conditions such as noisy, hot, cold, etc.
- Must be able to stand and operate equipment for up to four continuous hours.
- You must wear hearing, eye, head protection and proper PPE.
- Some climbing (100 feet or higher) and lifting (50 lbs.) involved.
- Working with hot and sometimes hazardous materials.
- Work on inland and offshore barges or in industrial settings.
- Enter round manholes with inside diameters of 18”, and other internally confined spaces.
- Traverse gangways and scaffolding at varying heights.
Necessary Equipment Operation: - Blow torches - Motorized cutting torches; Pattern cutting torches; Welding torches.
- Gas welding, brazing, or cutting apparatus - Brazing equipment; Heliarc welding equipment; Oxyacetylene equipment; Portable gas operated arc welders.
- Manlift or personnel lift - hydraulic truck lifts; Swing stages
- Welding masks - Hand shields; Welding shields.
Special Skills: - Ability to work under deadlines and schedule pressures.
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, sketches, drawings, and technical manuals.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- High performance and a strong team player.
- Commitment to company values and safety program.
Welder Position Basic Requirements: Qualifications of class – Class will be based upon judgment by quality control and/or production management in terms of the quality and productivity of the welds.
Plate Welder 2 nd Class (PLW2) - Welder capable of welding SMAW or FCAW on plate/structural with ABS Q2+4G or ASME or AWS plate test (2G+3G+4G).
Plate Welder 1 st Class (PLW1) - Welder capable of welding SMAW & FCAW on plate/structural with ABS Q2+4G or ASME or AWS plate test (2G+3G+4G).
Pipe Welder 2 nd Class (PPW2) – Welder capable of welding SMAW or FCAW on plate/structural &SMAW or FCAW on pipe with ABS Q3 or AWS 6g pipe test.
Pipe Welder 1 st Class (PPW1) – Welder capable of welding SMAW & FCAW and or GTAW on pipe. Must Pass ABS Q3 or ASME 6G or AWS 6G pipe test.
Combination Welder 1 st Class - Pipe/Plate/Structural (PPLW)– Welder capable of process / structural pipe and plate welding using GTAW+FCAW and or GTAW+SMAW.
Combination Welder 2 nd Class- Pipe/Plate/Structural (PPLW)– Welder capable of process / structural pipe and plate welding using GTAW+FCAW and or GTAW+SMAW.
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as a comprehensive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of assigned personnel.
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