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POSITION:  Production Welder

BASIC FUNCTION:  To be responsible for various types of weld preparation, welding and weld finishing operations to manufacture product to customer drawings, specifications, or other forms of instruction.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

1.    High School Diploma or Equivalent Trade School Certification         

2.    A minimum of 1 year of production welding experience

3.    Trade School Education a plus. 

4.    Demonstrate effective reading, verbal, written and communication skills

5.    Must have a valid Driver’s License

6.    Maintain flexibility in meeting job responsibilities

7.    Exhibit ability to be highly motivated and work independently

8.    Must be able to accurately read a tape measure.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS:  The Production Welder must have the ability to demonstrate the physical and cognitive capabilities to fulfill the essential functions of the job.

Physical Demands:  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk and hear.  The employee is required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to manipulate, handle or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms and taste and smell.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to twenty (20) pounds, frequently lift and/or move up forty (40) pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to sixty (60) pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth vision and the ability to adjust focus. 

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITES AND FUNCTIONS:  INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING

1. Meeting preset production standards and daily production quota. 
2. Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
3. Remove rough spots from work pieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
4. Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
5. Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
6. Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
7. Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.
8. 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.
9. Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
10. Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
11. Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
12. Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
13. Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.
14. Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts.
15. Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
16. Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.
17. Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
18. Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
19. Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.
20. Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.
21. Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.
22. Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
23. Position and secure work pieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.
24. Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
25. Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
26. Preheat work pieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
27. Hammer out bulges or bends in metal work pieces.
28. Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across work pieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
29. Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
30. Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.
31. Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.
32. Estimate materials needed for production and manufacturing and maintain required stocks of materials.
33. Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.
34. Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
35. Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.
36. Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process.
37. Signal crane operators to move large work pieces.
38. Operate brazing and soldering equipment.
39. Mix and apply protective coatings to products.
40. Join parts such as beams and steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bridges, and highways, bolting and riveting as necessary.
41. Melt lead bars, wire, or scrap to add lead to joints or to extrude melted scrap into reusable form.
42. Performs other responsibilities and functions as assigned. 

Company DescriptionZanesville Steel specializes in the engineering, reverse engineering, fabrication, and manufacturing of portable stacking racks. While our core competencies are designing and manufacturing racks, our capabilities and experience include welding and fabricating miscellaneous metal products for a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications.Company DescriptionZanesville Steel specializes in the engineering, reverse engineering, fabrication, and manufacturing of portable stacking racks. While our core competencies are designing and manufacturing racks, our capabilities and experience include welding and fabricating miscellaneous metal products for a wide variety of commercial and industrial applications.

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