Welder-Structural - (Houston, TX) - Austin Industrial
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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.
Structural Welder
The Structural Welder must be able to join steel components or metal plates using 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 Gas-Metal Arc, Flux-Cored Arc, Gas-Tungsten Arc, Submerged Arc or Shielded Metal Arc welding processes.
- Fills holes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
- Manually apply filler rod to supply weld metal. May clean or degrease weld joint or workplace, using wire brush, portable grinder, or chemical bath.
- Remove excess weld, defective weld material, slag and spatter, using carbon arc gouge, hand scrapper, grinder or power chipper.
- Climbs up ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
- In order to protect the torch chooses place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
- Capable of lifting a minimum of 50 pounds, climb stairs, climb ladders, and stand for long periods of time.
- Must be capable of working outdoors in all types of weather conditions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Required for this Position:
Education – no minimum education requirements.
Experience: – 5 years of Journeyman level experience
Certifications/ Licenses: Weld Test, Valid Driver’s License
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 (i.e., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).
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