Welder Fitter Combo

Job Title

Uses hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components, fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products

Job Summary

Module X Solutions is a rapidly growing modular manufacturing business that serves marquee corporate and government customers in renewable energy, network infrastructure, battery storage, telecommunications, petrochemical, utility, transportation, and other verticals. We design, engineer, and manufacture products to our customers' specifications. We are a proud Shreveport-based company working to support our employees and our community.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze engineering draws, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Develop templates & models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
• Position, align, secure parts & assemblies prior to assembly by using straight edges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Prepare material surfaces to be welded, ensuring there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits. Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding & submerged arc welding.
• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions. Join parts such as beams & steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bolting and riveting as necessary
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment. Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes and portable grinders or chemical baths.

Qualifications

Work Experience: 3+ years welding/fitting experience

Education: Highschool diploma/ GED or equivalent

Related Experience: Proficient with hand and power tools; Ability to read a tape measure; Attention to detail; General mathematical skills; General knowledge construction techniques and standards; Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks; keep up in a fast-paced environment; Ability to communicate technical information to team members and/or customers; Proficient understanding of engineering drawings and blueprints; Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills; Welding experience with modular buildings and solar power conversion skids

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee sometimes works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to excessive noise, extreme heat, extreme cold, and heights. When participating in activities on the shop floor, the noise level in the work environment is typical for a fabrication shop and ear plugs may be used as necessary. Compensation: $28.00 - $36.00 per hour

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Module X Solutions (MXS) designs, engineers, manufactures, and integrates modular structures for our customers in the solar energy, oil & gas/petrochemical, transportation, utility, fiber & telecommunications, and government sectors. Our product line is manufactured locally and deployed domestically and internationally. Emerging market sectors such as renewable energy solutions [primarily solar & energy storage applications] are our niche.

We are committed to understanding the needs and wishes of our customers; and are always striving to be flexible, creative, innovative, and efficient with our methods and product designs.

MXS is looking for team members who want to learn and achieve, who are dedicated, productive and agile. If you enjoy a challenge, are capable of delivering quality work, and want to make a difference, join our growing team!

As our founder, Steve Schoonover said, "We take care of our people and our people take care of our customers!

If you want to take care of our customers, let's talk!