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 4,000 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 instructions through 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 mixture. Reaching expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air. Preheats work pieces for the preparation of welding or curving, using torch. Fills holes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces. Checks the weakness of work pieces and measures work pieces with straightedge or template to ensure the piece meets specifications. Climbs up ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures. Gives signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces. Uses thermal-cutting equipment such as 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. In order to protect the torch chooses place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal. Instructs and brings flame or electrodes on or across work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal. Joins pieces together, covers up taut points, and adds metal to develop parts. Other duties as 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:

Education: – no minimum education requirements.

Certifications/ Licenses: Weld Test, TWIC and DL

Experience: – 3-5 years of Journeyman level experience.

 

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 (e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement). 

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