Metal Fabrication and Fitter

Haakon Industries is a manufacturing company whose mission is to breathe life into an advanced and responsible future. We accomplish our goal by making engineered-to-order products of exceptional quality, solving challenges with technical and sustainable solutions, and maintaining healthy working relationships.

Metal Fabrication and Fitter

Description of Company:
Haakon Industries is a world leader in custom designed and manufactured air handling units for all type of building environments. We strive to provide the highest quality equipment and the most flexibility in equipment design to provide optimal solutions for our clients.

About the Position:
Responsible for a variety of tasks in the base assembly process of manufacturing custom air handling units. Works under the close direction of senior personnel in the functional area.
This position requires an assessment that judges a candidate’s ability to read print, measure, and weld through the process of creating a metal box.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• Be proficient in reading and understanding prints
• Ability to troubleshoot complex problems and come up with a workable solution
• Constructing structural components from raw materials.
• Inspecting fabricated components to ensure that they are the correct size.
• Utilizing shears, power saws, cutting torches, and chipper knives to cut structural components as needed.
• Replacing damaged or defective structural components as needed.
• Using welding equipment to fuse structural components.

Position Requirements:
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.

• Proven experience working as a fitter.
• The ability to use hand and power tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, time management, and organizational skills.
• Mechanical skills and knowledge of basic machinery, including computers, tools, collaborative robots and other devices
• Ability to follow demonstrated instructions
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to perform repetitive tasks
• Verify conformance of work pieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
• Read and understand blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.
• Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
• Physical stamina to stand for long periods of time and perform repetitive tasks, such as climbing ladders and bending often.
• Physical strength to lift heavy machinery, tools and components.
• Dexterity and good hand-eye coordination, with the ability to manipulate and assemble very large and extremely small components.

Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Fabricators and Manufacturers Association (FMA)
• 4 years of Fitter experience

Physical Demands:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, color distinction, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Physical stamina to stand for long periods of time and perform repetitive tasks, such as climbing ladders and bending often.
• Physical strength to lift heavy machinery, tools, and components
• Dexterity and good hand-eye coordination, with the ability to manipulate and assemble very large and extremely small components.
• Required to stand and is frequently required to use hand to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and climb or balance.
• Frequent walking, reaching with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 30 pounds, will frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and will occasionally lift and/or move up to 80 pounds.
• Must be able to safely operate large equipment, fabrication tools, and rigging.

Pay is dependent on experience.

**DUE TO OUR SAFETY SENSITIVE POSITIONS ONE MUST PASS A DRUG TEST, INCLUDING MARIJUANA, TO BE CONSIDERED FOR EMPLOYMENT

Haakon is an equal opportunity at will employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, religion, color, disability, sex, sexual orientation or national origin.