Welding Team Member

Clayton Homes, a Berkshire Hathaway company and the nation's leading housing provider, is a vertically integrated housing company that builds, sells, and insures affordable housing. Our commitment to creating a World Class Customer Experience is unparalleled in the housing industry; we take pride in ensuring that all Clayton homeowners receive a high level of customer service from the time they visit one of our Home Centers all the way through to the time they take ownership of their new home.

The Home Building Group is actively searching for Welding Team Members for our home building facility in Bean Station, TN.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Welding Team Members perform the manufacturing production operations assigned to their team in the home building process. The position follows standard production methods and practices safe work habits to ensure production is as efficient and safe as possible.

Production teams ensure that all homes meet sales orders, prints, specifications, and building codes, while ensuring a high quality standard in a timely manner.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Safety : Practice safe work habits to ensure production is as efficient and safe as possible while observing all relevant OSHA regulations.
2. Productivity: Work in a team environment to produce products that conform to our quality standards while achieving our productivity objectives.
3. Stewardship: Serve as a good steward of our company's physical assets, protecting them from damage and misuse, reporting all needed maintenance, keeping your assigned area clean, and orderly.
4. Planning: Assist your Team Leader and Area Coordinator to plan and organize the manufacturing activities in your area by communicating anticipated material shortages, identifying required tool maintenance, and communicating any quality and productivity issues.
5. Attendance: Meet all attendance requirements, available for start of shift at required time, following the attendance rules and regulations of the division.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Provide support to the Facilities & Operations Department through following actions:

1. Perform custom MIG/TIG welding
2. Skillfully weld stainless various types of steel, metals and materials
3. Lays out, positions, aligns, or otherwise sets pieces in place preparatory to welding, and measures dimensions for conformance to specifications.
4. Cleans and degreases parts to be welded using wire brushes, grinders, or solvents.
5. Sets up, adjusts, and operates such welding equipment as electric arc welders, gas shielded arc welders, and gas welders; selects proper electrodes, gas orifices, filter rods, and/or torch tips based on type of material being welded and desired bead size and penetration.
6. Under supervision fabricates and assembles complete devices or pieces of equipment by using metal forming and cutting tools such as presses, punches, brakes, pipe benders and threaders, and drills to bend, shape, and cut parts to be welded and bolted, screwed, or riveted together.
7. Competently read blueprints and drawings for fabrication of designs
8. Make repairs to tooling, equipment and parts
9. Processing of improvements of current equipment and designs
10. Forklift and Overhead Crane operations
11. Drive company vehicles as required
12. Paint materials
13. Prepare fabricated designs and materials for shipment to plants
14. Communicate needs for parts, equipment and upcoming orders
15. Other tasks as requested

REQUIRED SKILLS

1. Must be able to work independently with a minimum of supervision
2. Must be oriented and capable of meeting daily goals for production
3. Dedicated to meet critical ship windows
4. Flexible hours mandatory
5. Travel mandatory
6. effectively and efficiently perform all responsibilities and tasks safely and responsibly

REQUIREMENTS:

1. Must have a high diploma or GED equivalent.
2. Technical School Degree in Welding. Will consider an individual with equivalent experience/testing
3. Must be able to perform duties in adverse conditions (example: Extreme outdoor heat and extreme outdoor cold)
4. Good Attendance Record
5. Demonstrated mechanical ability
6. Welding and Shop Safety knowledge, demonstrated adherence to safety requirements
7. Stand, bend and kneel for entire scheduled shift
8. Adapt quickly, maintains proficiency, and makes sound decisions in a changing, fast-paced work environment
9. Communicate and listen effectively and respectfully, able to communicate efficiently and clearly with other Team Members and follow directives effectively.

Why Clayton?

1. Full-time team members have the flexibility to create their own health, dental, and vision benefits package. Clayton provides competitive 401K programs, including investment options and company matching for full and part time employees after one year to help our team members achieve their financial goals. Additional benefits include paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement, Employee Assistance Programs, and more.
2. As part of Clayton's commitment to Opening Doors to a Better Life, Clayton is now providing paid time for Team Members to volunteer to causes that are meaningful to them through the Clayton Impact program.
3. Clayton is proud to have earned spots on the following Forbes lists: America's Best Employers, America's Best Employers by State, Best Employers for Diversity, Best Employers for Women.
4. At Clayton, we encourage holistic wellness with physical, nutritional, social, financial, spiritual and occupational programs available online or in-person for team members.

Clayton is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Clayton is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.