at Personnel Plus, Inc. in Burley, Idaho, United States
Job Description
Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join
metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal
products.
Tasks
- Operate safety equipment, and use safe work habits.
- Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
- Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by
touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits. - Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind and/or bolt component
parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding. - Detect faulty operation of equipment and/or defective materials,
and notify supervisors. - 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. - Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid
overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of
material. - 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.
