Welder

Welder

Location: North Houston, TX 77032

Pay Rate: $20 to $25/ hour DOE

Schedule: 40 hours per week Overtime

Job Type: Temporary Assignment up to 3 weeks

Welder Job Summary

Welder to perform assembly and welding operations of fabricated metal products. The responsibilities of the Welder position include positioning, aligning, fitting, and welding parts, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools. The candidate must have good communication skills, a positive attitude, be prepared to multitask, and adapt well to change with desire to function as part of a team and to also perform well independently.

Welder Responsibilities and Duties:

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings as they pertain to welding of parts. Ability
• to complete routine reports.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as area, circumference and volume.
• Good communication skill.
• Ability to work without close supervision and exercise individual initiative.
• Set up and operate a variety of manual machines. Ability to use the following hand or powered hand tools, including but not limited to, drill, file, grinder, hammer, pliers and screwdrivers.
• Use the following measuring tools: tape meter, caliper, square.
• Set up and weld parts using welding equipment following procedures.
• Operate the following plant equipment: forklift, hand cutting torch, pendant jib, gantry and overhead cranes (also radio controlled).
• Read and accurately interpret specifications from cut sheets to determine material type and size. Read detailed production orders to determine product specifications including dimensions and tolerances.
• Work with a variety of materials to include, but not limited to, raw pipe of varying sizes, bar stock, flanges, flat bars and sheet metal part template.
• Other duties as assigned.

Welder Qualifications:

• High school graduate. Welding certification or technical courses preferred.
• 5 -8 years’ work experience preferred.
• 5 -8 years’ experience MIG welding. TIG experience is a bonus.
• Must have valid identification.

Welder Physical Demands:

• The employee frequently is required to stand, walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl with occasionally requiring to climb.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. The employee must occasionally push and/or pull a maximum force of 200 ft-lb