1st Class Structural Welder (R/O)

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: 1st Class Structural Welder

Location: Pascagoula, MS 

Position Overview: The 1st Class Structural Welder welds together structural metal components as specified by blueprints, work orders, or oral instructions. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Obtains the appropriate tools needed for a particular job and subsequently sets up their equipment.
• Binds together structural metal components that have been pre-assembled and tacked into place.
• Performs good, cosmetic sound welds.
• Examines his/her work and may chip off excess weld, slag, and splatter with the appropriate tools (i.e., grinder, chipping hammer, etc.).
• Leaves little to no rework when job is complete (i.e., cold rolls, pin holes, wraps, burn thorough, etc.).
• Troubleshoots his/her equipment.
• May gouge to remove a member, make a seam sound, remove weld reinforcement, etc.

Qualifications:

• Six (6) months to one (1) year of Marine experience in welding is required.

Skills and Abilities:

• Cable of helping to supervise a crew of welders.
• Certified in 3G and 4G in at least 3 or more of the following disciplines preferred: flux core, short arc, aluminum, aluminum Heli arc, stainless steel, carbon-to-stainless steel, and submerged arc.
• Able to make a full penetration welds that will pass NDE Testing (i.e., x-ray, ultrasound, magnetic particles, dye penetrate).
• Able to lay out track marks.
• Able to identify most commonly used welding symbols.
• Able to gouge.

Bollinger is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals, and without regard to sexual orientation and gender identity.