Welder

Be a Part of the WOS Team!

Working for WOS is more than a job, it’s the start of a new career, a unique opportunity to develop your skills through training and individual mentorship.  Founded in 2005, Workforce Opportunity Services (WOS) is a leading nonprofit organization committed to developing the skills of untapped talent from historically underrepresented communities through partnerships with organizations dedicated to diversifying their workforce. This includes people of color, women, veterans, first-generation college graduates, and early-career aspirants.

How We Do It

WOS uses a scientifically-based model derived from research conducted at Columbia University that enables us to recruit, educate, train, and place high-potential candidates with leading organizations around the world. To date, WOS has served 6000 individuals through partnerships with more than 65 corporations in 60 locations worldwide. For more information, visit wforce.org.

About The Opportunity

Workforce Opportunity Services (WOS)—the leading non-profit organization connecting individuals from under-serviced communities is looking for a Welder.

Responsibilities:

• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, and shielded metal arc.
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
• Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
• Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
• Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
• Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
• Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, and hand tools.
• Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
• Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
• Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process.
• Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
• Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
• Hammer bulges, or bends, in metal workpieces.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED 
• One, or more, years of welding work experience is required.
  • Completion of an Apprenticeship and/or Certification may be considered in lieu of work experience.
• Ability to meet the physical requirements of the job including the ability to lift up to 45 pounds.

Job Type:

• Full-Time (3rd Shift)
• Sun-Thur - 9:30 PM – 6:00 AM CST

Salary:

• $26.69/Hour

Location:

• Goodfield, IL

At WOS, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and ensuring a workplace free from all forms of discrimination or harassment. We strongly encourage people of color, women, veterans, people who identify as LGBTQIA, and members of ethnic minorities to apply!

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