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1st or 2nd Class Mechanic

Caldwell Tanks
Louisville, KY Other
POSTED ON 4/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/15/2025

Job Details

Level:    Experienced
Job Location:    Corporate Office - Louisville, KY
Salary Range:    $25.00 - $25.00 Hourly
Job Category:    Skilled Labor - Trades

Description

Summary: Assembles and joins, through welding, all types of tank parts and components.


First Class Mechanic

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

  • Read and understand blueprints and sketches(1st Class only).
  • Perform 100% penetration x-ray quality welds (1st Class only).
  • Layout work required for the fabrication of tank parts and components (1st Class only).
  • Material handling using overhead cranes, or forklift (1st or 2nd Class).
  • Burning of parts and components (1st or 2nd Class).
  • Fit-up and welding tasks of all tank parts and components (Fitting is 1st Class only).
  • General housekeeping (1st or 2nd Class)>


Second Class Mechanic

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

  • Read and understand blueprints and sketches (1st Class only).
  • Material handling using overhead cranes, or forklift.
  • General housekeeping.

 

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

 

Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:

  • Quality – Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
  • Quantity – Meets productivity standards; Completes work in timely manner; Strives to increase productivity; Works quickly and with limited supervision.
  • Safety and Security – Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.
  • Adaptability – Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent changes, delays, or unexpected events.
  • Attendance/Punctuality – Is consistently at work and on time.
  • Dependability – Follows instructions, responds to management directions; Takes responsibility for own actions; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
  • Initiative – Volunteers readily; Seeks increased responsibilities; Looks for and takes advantage of opportunities; Asks for and offers help when needed.

 

 


Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree; or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

 

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as blueprints, sketches, shipping lists, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to speak effectively with team supervisor and other team members.

 

Mathematical Skills: Basic skills: Ability to read a tape measure. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

 

Reasoning Ability: Basic skills: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

 

Other Skills and Abilities: Ability to perform layout work. Ability to satisfactorily pass practical tests to assess proficiency in welding according to the ASME code standards.

 

Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands and work environment here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands: Stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel; Reach with hands and arms; Stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl; talk and hear; Exerting 50-100 lbs of force occasionally, and/ or 25-50 lbs. of force frequently, and or 10/20 lbs. constantly to move objects. Vision requirements; Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less); Distance vision (clear at 20 feet or more); Peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point); Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships); Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).

Work environment can fluctuate from indoor and outdoor temperatures and weather conditions; Possibility of working near moving mechanical parts; Vibration; Hazardous waste; Fumes or airborne particles; Risk of electrical shock; Loud noise level.

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