Welder (Iron Station, NC) - Austin Industrial (Manufacturing)
Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries. Our team of employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost-efficiency.
Welder
The Welder must be able to join steel components or metal plates using blueprints, work orders, welding procedures or oral instructions through the application of heat or electric arc-welding equipment. Also, responsible for fabricating and assembling miscellaneous metals and must be able to work from blueprints, plans, and specs. Other duties may be assigned.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ability to perform tasks using aerial equipment, i.e. JLG, scissors lift, etc.
- Uses Gas-Metal Arc, Flux-Cored Arc, Gas-Tungsten Arc, Submerged Arc or Shielded Metal Arc welding processes.
- Welds stainless steel, carbon steel, and possibly other alloys in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
- Fabricates custom projects including metal foundations, frames, brackets, piping, and other miscellaneous items to suit project requirements.
- Designs and constructs templates and fixtures.
- Develops layout and plans sequence of operations, applying knowledge of geometry, stock allowances for thickness, machining, welding shrinkage, and physical properties of metal.
- Locates and marks bending lines, drill centers and cutting lines onto work piece.
- Sets up and operates fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, and drill presses.
- Operates grinders, mag-drills, band saws, drill presses, shears, press brakes, and various portable hand tools.
- Operate various types of welding machines and supporting hand tools.
- Verifies conformance of work piece to specifications, using square, ruler, and measuring tape.
- Fabricates and assembles sheet metal products.
- Must be able to perform work wearing personnel protective equipment. Including but not limited to the following: rain gear, chemical protective clothing, supplied air and air purifying respirators, safety harness, sand blast hoods, fire resistant coveralls, hard hat, ear plugs and safety glasses.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to have full range of mobility in upper and lower body, able to reach overhead, able to work in various positions, including, but not limited to, stooping, standing, bending over, sitting, kneeling, squatting; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; work at heights; balance for extended periods of time.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
Education: no minimum education requirements.
Experience: 3-5 years of experience in an industrial setting preferred.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.
Must pass drug screen and background check, as condition of employment.
No per diem.
This is a fulltime maintenance job working 40 hours a week (4/10's).
We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and a matching 401K plan. We are proud to be a 100% Employee-Owned Company (ESOP)! To learn more about Austin, please go to https://www.austin-ind.com/our-company/who-we-are.
Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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No Third-Party Inquiries Please
- This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes, or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
- Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company
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