WELDER Job

Tasks
Interpret welding process specifications
Read and interpret welding blueprints, drawings specifications, manuals and processes
Examine welds and ensure that they meet standards and/or specifications
Operate manual or semi-automatic flame-cutting equipment
Operate brakes, shears and other metal shaping, straightening and bending machines
Fit, braze and torch-straighten metal
Operate oxygen arc cutting equipment (arc-air), (AOC)
Determine weldability of materials
Operate hoisting and lifting equipment
Operate previously set-up brazing or soldering machines to bond metal or to fill holes, indentations and seams of metal
Maintain and perform minor repairs on welding, brazing and soldering equipment

Arc welding machine
Gas welding machine
Spot welding machine