Welder

About Total Safety

Total Safetyis the worlds premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them including gas detection respiratory protection safety training fire protection compliance and inspection industrial hygiene onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics communications systems engineered systems design and materials management. Our Core Values are People Safety & Wellbeing Accountability Responsibility Empowerment Honesty Transparency and Integrity.

Position Summary

Welder will utilize a variety of equipment tools and machinery to fabricate metal products. The products produced by Total Safety companies save lives and promote the safe operation of our clients businesses. Welding specification compliance regarding quality and quantity is absolutely essential to that function.

Specific Job Duties and Responsibilities

Safety: Maintaining a safe work environment is the most important responsibility for every employee.

Confidentiality: Maintain Company and customer confidentiality in all aspects of business including but not limited to financial status customer and employee relationships and product development design and use.

Conduct: In accordance with the Total Safety Integrity agreement observe all applicable safety rules regulations and instructions. Perform all assigned duties and functions in accordance with Company directives rules and regulations. Arrive on time and prepared for work as scheduled.

Work: Essential functions include but are not limited to:

• Maintain a professional appearance and demeanor.
• Maintain a drug free status and submit to testing as required.
• Maintain a good motor vehicle (MVR) driving record.
• Obey Company rules and regulations.
• Observe all applicable safety rules regulations and instructions.
• Perform all assigned duties and functions in accordance with Company directives.
• Regular attendance and timeliness is an essential function of this position.
• Operate equipment safely and use safe work habits while performing duties.
• Analyze engineering drawings and specifications for plan layout assembly and welding operations.
• Secure parts and assemblies according to specifications.
• Use straightedges combination squares calipers and rulers for measurements.
• Lay out position align and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly.
• Develop templates and other work aids to hold and align parts.
• Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.
• Remove rough spots from work pieces using portable grinder hand file or scraper.
• Determine required equipment and welding methods applying knowledge of metallurgy geometry and welding techniques.
• Set up and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded completing electrical circuits.
• Adjust valves amperage or voltage to obtain desired flame or arc.
• Heat form and dress metal parts using hand tools torch or arc welding equipment.
• Monitor the fitting burning and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts and prevent warping shrinking distortion or expansion of materials.
• Welds 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.
• Tack-welds or welds components and assemblies using electric gas arc or other welding equipment.
• Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments using processes such as gas tungsten arc gas metal arc and flux-cored arc plasma arc and shielded metal arc resistance welding and submerged arc welding.
• Test and observe welds to assure dimensions and product quality control.
• Inspect grooves angles or gap allowances using micrometer caliper and precision measuring instruments.
• Utilizes materials cost effectively making use of scrap and planning ahead for potential uses.
• Special assignments as requested.

Grade Level 1 Entry Level and Short Service Employee Additional Functions

Requires basic metal-working skills and continues through the entire welder/fabricator training process.

• Parts cutting grinding cleaning and deburring
• Product painting
• SMAWGMAW GTAW welding assistance
• Pipe and plate welding fabrication
• Preparation of materials
• Operation of equipment and machinery

Grade Level 2 Experienced Employee Additional Functions

Mid-level experienced welder/fabricator capable of routinely performing a wide variety of fabrication pipefitting and welding functions with minimal assistance or supervision. Includes all skills of Grade Level 1.

• Mild steel GMAW welding
• Machinery and flame cutting of parts
• SMAW and GMAW welding experience (15 year minimum)
• GTAW welding
• Pipe (6G) and Plate (3G) welding and fabrication
• Blueprint reading
• Carbon steel and stainless steel welding fabrication experience
• Experience with pressure vessels and high pressure piping
• Forklift operation

Grade Level 3 Expert Employee Additional Functions

Expert level requires mastery of all facets from conception to completion of our manufactured products including evaluating and resolving complex issues and mentoring Fabrication Specialists Levels 1& 2.

• Stainless steel GTAW welding
• Multi-pass welding
• Complete manufacturing and assembly of metallic stack components
• Expert level of production knowledge in the fabrication of tips shrouds and pilot manufacturing and assemblies.

Qualifications

Education: High school graduate occupational school or equivalent experience.

Required Licenses or Specific Training/Additional Certifications:

• AWS
• ASME
• API

Interpersonal Communications: Verbally comprehend details and directions. Recognize and solve problems while working cooperatively with team members. Employees must remain amiable and able to work under extreme conditions and difficult circumstances. Employees must communicate and conduct themselves in a professional manner at all times regardless of their assigned location. Inappropriate and offensive language will not be tolerated.

Physical Demands

Good physical fitness is necessary to perform this job. Heavy lifting requiring safety-awareness is frequent. Working in extremely hot temperatures is common. Bending stooping and other stressful physical activity is often required. The incumbent is regularly required to sit walk talk hear and smell. Specific vision abilities required include close vision distance vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to focus. There are a number of deadlines associated with this position which may cause significant mental and physical stress.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; and stoop kneel or crouch. Uses hands to finger handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work performed by Total Safety is dangerous. Our drug and alcohol use policy is zero-tolerance and includes random drug testing. Every employee has stop work authority. This means that if any employee deems an area or situation is dangerous and unsafe they have the authority and obligation to stop all work without repercussion in that area until the locations safety authority declares it clear and safe. Failure to follow appropriate safety protocol is grounds for immediate termination.

Work is typically performed in a shop environment standing at a fabrication table or working on pipe or parts the majority of the work shift. There may be considerable bending and stooping to reach otherwise inaccessible areas. Use of manufacturing tools machinery and equipment is required. There may be long hours of intense concentration and physical labor which requires attention to detail and high levels of accuracy. The shop is a hazardous environment. Safety considerations include but are not limited to electrical heat fire mechanical hazards radiation fumes and deposits noise equipment operation heavy materials moving working in close or confined quarters and working at heights. The employee may be required to make repairs or assist in installations in the field. The employee is required to attend safety classes and meetings on site and where offered and attend other company sponsored informational meetings.

Reporting Relationships

Complexity of Duties and Decisions: Work consists of moderately complex procedures and tasks where mathematical and mechanical abilities are required. An understanding of the properties of metals welding components and gases is essential. An awareness of personal and group safety requirements must always be of paramount consideration.

Authority: Personally responsible for product quality control. Must reveal any problems or defects to maintain product integrity and customer safety.