Fabrication Helper

Description

Benefits

• Full-Time Employees
  • Company Sponsored Benefits:
    • Medical (PPO & HSA), Dental, Vision, STD,
  • Company Paid Benefits:
    • Basic Life, Basic AD&D, Cancer, LTD, Teladoc (Full-time & Part-time)

• 401K with Employer Match (eligibility requirements)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (eligibility requirements)
• Paid Holidays & Paid Time Off (Full-Time Only)
• Maternity/Paternity Leave (eligibility requirements)
• Paid Training & Safety Equipment
• Relocation Benefits
• Verizon Wireless Company Discount (eligibility requirements)

Summary

Assists Fabricators and Welders with joining, fabricating, and repairing metal and other weldable material by applying appropriate welding techniques. Learns to interpret blueprints, specifications, diagrams, or schematics to determine appropriate welding process. Learn to inspect completed welds to determine structural soundness.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Learns and assists with the designs, fabricates, joins, fits/tack, and/or repair equipment, fixtures and various types of metal objects and structures using oxygen-acetylene, electric arc, MIG and TIG welding techniques.
• Learns to operate and assist with drill presses, power saws, grinders and a variety of welding equipment and hand tools.
• Learns to use and assist with rigging and cranes for movement of weldments
• Learns to and assist with cuts workpiece, using powered saws, hydraulic shears.
• Learns to and assist with installs or repairs equipment, such as lead pipes, valves, floors, and truck linings, and all components of welding machinery.
• Learns to and assist with welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Learns to and assist with igniting torch and adjusts valves, amperage, or voltage to obtain desired flame or arc.
• Learns basics of 2G (Horizontal Welding), 3G (Vertical/Uphill Welding), 4G (Overhead Welding)
• Learns basics how to analyze plans, drawings, work samples, specifications, and work orders to determine work requirements and sequence of welding assignments/techniques.
• Required to work overtime schedule as requested to meet production needs based on established overtime procedures.
• Learn how to do estimates for material and labor.
• Learns how to recommend supplies and materials to be ordered.

Supervisory Responsibilities

N/A

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Must be dependable.
• Strong customer service skills, both verbal and written.
• Have some knowledge of applicable codes.
• Knowledge of mathematics to solve problems.
• Familiar with welding techniques, (oxygen-acetylene, electric arc, and MIG, TIG, plastic welding), tools and equipment.
• Willing to learn skills in the fabrication, joining and repair of a variety of metal objects, equipment, fixtures and structures.
• Willing to acquire knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of emergency apparatus products.
• Knowledge of proper safety and protective equipment utilized during welding assignments.

Education and/or Experience

• High School Diploma or GED
• Two years of welding experience; OR similar and acceptable industry experience.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

N/A

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance. The employee is occasionally required to walk stairs and/or climb ladders. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.