Welder Combination (La Porte, TX) Austin Industrial
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Job Location:
La Porte, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
10-09-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Austin Industrial
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 4000 employee-owners equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures helps owners optimize safety productivity profit margins and cost efficiency.
Welder - Combination
This person must be able to join metal parts such as pipe or metal plates as specified by layout blueprints work orders welding procedures or oral instructionsthrough the application of heat or electric arc-welding equipment. Other duties may be assigned.
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Uses spot welding gun or hand electric or gas welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.
- Unites pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turns valves to release the mixture.
- Reaching the expected temperature size and color of flame by burning a torch and adjusting the flow of gas and air.
- Preheats workpieces for the preparation of welding or curving using a torch.
- Fillsholes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
- Checks the weakness of workpieces and measures workpieces with straightedge or template to ensure the piece meets specifications.
- Climbsup ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
- Gives signal to the crane operator to lift large workpieces.
- Uses thermal-cutting equipment such as a flame-cutting torch or plasma-arc equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
- Uses hoist crane wire and banding machine or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
- To protect the torch choose a place of weld based on type thickness area and expected temperature of metal.
- Instructs and brings flame or electrodes on or across the workpiece to straighten curve dissolve or develop metal.
- Joins pieces together covers up taut points and adds metal to develop parts.
- Other responsibilities may be assigned.
- 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.
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 regularly required to sit; use hands to finger handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision distance vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
Experience: 5 years of Journeyman level experience.
Certifications/ Licenses: Weld Test Valid Drivers License and TWIC-Card.
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 Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so (e.g. payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
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Key Skills
- Robot Programming
- Calipers
- ASME Codes & Standards
- Flux Welding
- Plasma Cutting
- MIG Welding
- 3G
- Fabrication
- Welding
- Geometry
- Manufacturing
- 4G/LTE
About Company
In 1918, Charles R. Moore purchased the contracting part of the company when the Austin brothers wanted to focus primarily on bridge fabrication. The company became known as Austin Bridge Company and Associated Companies until 1974 when the parent company, Austin Industries, was form ... View more
