Welder

Welder

Traylor Construction Group - Onyett Fabricators

Petersburg, IN • ID: 1783-356 • Full-Time/Regular

Established in 1999, Onyett Fabricators is a dedicated shop providing fabrication and field services, welding, and other structural metalwork for the coal, aggregate, and construction industries.

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

• Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits while performing his job function.
• Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ignites torches or starts power supplies and strikes arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies supervisors.
• Clamps, holds, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Operates manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, and flux-cored arc, plasma arc, and shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
• Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts of warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of materials.
• Examines work pieces for defects and measures work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Welder recognizes, set up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Will lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers

Required skills:

High school diploma or equivalent.

Basic mechanical knowledge required. One year machinist experience and/or machine trades technical schooling preferred.

Ability to read, write, and comprehend basic written and verbal instructions.

Ability to understand, perform, and retain various job-related training, operational, and safety procedures.

Ability to operate overhead cranes, fork lift trucks, and other equipment preferred.

Must pass pre-employment testing.