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Welder Fabricator Summary

The welder/Fabricator is responsible for the installation of parts, pieces, and elements of the designated project, treatment and repair of metal surfaces to ensure safe usage, and welding to secure fastening for pieces included in the final product. Additional duties include maintaining the shop and equipment used in the assembly process.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Fabricate, position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits
• Follow blueprints and layout specifications using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools
• Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences
• Move parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes
• Lay out and examine metal stock or work pieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met
• Verify conformance of work pieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes
• Tack-weld fitted parts together
• Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches
• Locate and mark work piece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications
• Hammer, chip, and grind work pieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal
• Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures
• Set up and operate fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components
• Smooth work piece edges
• Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, or straightening presses
• Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers
• Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools
• Mark reference points onto floors or face blocks and transpose them to work pieces, using measuring devices, squares, chalk, and soapstone
• Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes
• Preheat work pieces to make them malleable, using hand torches
• Erect ladders and scaffolding to fit together large assemblies

Qualifications

• Understanding of structural basics, including rigging, welding, erection, and reinforcements
• Able to read, understand, and layout to prints
• Welding certificates
• Able to operate forklifts and overhead cranes

Education and/or experience

• High school diploma or GED
• Welding certification(s) required.

Physical Requirements

• Good general health
• Good balance, agility, vision and depth perception

Benefits

• 1st of the month following 30-day period – Insurance Anthen Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance. Vision, Dental and LIfe Insurance.
• Competitive pay scale
• Paid Holidays and Overtime available
• IRA – CraneWerks will match 100% up to 3%. Eligible after 90 days