Welding Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Plan, organize, manage, and document welding projects and operations using relevant codes, drawings, or contracts. Responsible for creating PQR’s, WPS’s and various types of welding training, weld operator certification, welding documentation including creating instructions, SOP’s, weld inspection, weld preparation, welding, to manufacture product to customer drawings, specifications, or other forms of instruction.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS (Tasks)

• Able to effectively train others in advanced welder programming
• Fixture creation and building
• Expert blueprint reading and understanding of GD&T
• Inspect completed work for conformance to specifications
• Create welding standard procedures, documenting processes and create SOP and work instructions for specific projects
• Support continuous improvement activities
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction in welding processes
• Maintain comprehensive records of welding activities
• Perform visual inspections according to any applicable standard
• Develop and create PQR’s and WPS’s using industry and Plasan procedures and through all customer approvals.
• Coach and mentor welders during training to new WPS’s and company improvement initiatives
• Maintain comprehensive records of all welding certifications currently in production
• Identify / resolve welding-related issues
• Adapt procedures, processes, tools, equipment and techniques to accomplish the requirements of the position
• Support the evaluation and training of all welders to achieve 93 % welder health reports
• Support the evaluation and training of all welders to achieve rate and improve SOP’s to increase rate and reduce finishing times where possible
• Provide RFQ inputs to weld cycle time, setup time, tool design and build time
• Review, select, approve, commission and maintain new fixtures and equipment
• Determine and implement fixture and equipment maintenance schedules, service parts and integration to maintenance computer system.
• Work with program management, engineering, quality and operations during FAIs, PPAP’s, and special prototype builds
• Collaborate with welding material / equipment suppliers
• Conduct materials testing / analysis
• Recommend appropriate materials for specific welding projects
• All other duties as assigned

SKILL SET (Preferred Skills)

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described 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. Occasional bending, squatting, and stooping. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Frequent use of hands / fingers to handle and control welding equipment. Frequently lifting and carrying up to 5 pounds and occasionally lifting up to 80 pounds. Use of hands to hold, lift and handle materials.

While performing this job in the factory, the employee is commonly exposed to noise, heat, and dust. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes and toxic or caustic chemicals. PPE is required in the factory.

In the office, employee works at a desk and a computer screen for extended periods of time with frequent movement throughout the facility to access files, office machinery, etc. Employee must be able to manually enter data to the computer system and understand the screen and images that appear. In the office, the noise level in the work environment is usually that of a typical office setting (i.e. computers, phones, printers).