Aluminum Welder

LaborOne Staffing is seeking an experienced Aluminum Welder to join our team in a shipyard environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in welding and fabrication, with a focus on aluminum materials.

• Lay out, fit, and weld fabricated, cast, and forged components to assemble structural forms such as machinery frames, tanks, pressure vessels, furnace shells, and building and bridge parts according to specifications.
• Select equipment and plans layout, assembly, and welding.
• Work with other crafts as instructed by supervision.

• One to three years of experience as a flux core arc welder is desired.
• Requires working knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate work processes and techniques for fitting and welding steel and other materials.
• Requires knowledge of ship terminology, welding symbols, safety, OSHA, and ABS regulations. Requires experience and knowledge of gouging, mirror welding, mig, and stick welding; experience with carbon, stainless steel, and aluminum welding.
• Must pass ABS American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) welding tests to be ABS Certified.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate.
• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
• This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing throughout the workday.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• The employee must be physically and medically qualified to wear all required personal protective equipment, as prescribed under Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards.
• The employee must be able to work above ground at heights of a minimum of 50 feet aloft and/or working from scaffolding and/or man-lifts while working with machinery; in confined spaces and withstand extreme heat and cold in an outside climate or confined space.

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The employee may be exposed to the risk of electrical shock, moving mechanical parts, vibration, fumes, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, continual loud noise, and other hazards found in a heavy industrial shipyard environment.
• Rigorous compliance with safety procedures, policies, and personal safety equipment requirements is therefore mandatory.