TIG Welder

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Located in Dallas, TX

Salary: $24-27 BOE

Hours: First Shift- Monday thru Friday 6:00am-2:30pm 

Pay: Based upon experience $24/hr-$27/hr

Position Summary:

  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions. 

  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits. 

  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers. 

  • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications. 

  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment. 

  • Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys. 

  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding. 

  • Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals. 

  • Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits. 

  • Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained. 

  • Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques. 

  • Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material. 

  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding. 

  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations. 

  • Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required. 

  • Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions. 

  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits. 

  • Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers. 

  • Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications. 

  • Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment. 

  • Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys. 

  • Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding. 

  • Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals. 

  • Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits. 

  • Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained. 

  • Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques. 

  • Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material. 

  • Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding. 

  • Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations. 

  • Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required. 

  • Have thorough understanding of TIG Welding fundamentals and operation. 

  • Must have ability to produce quality welds on a variety of materials as needed. 

  • Set-up and maintain equipment, settings, gas, choosing proper rod etc. 

  • Read drawings and measure with gage’s, calipers etc. per instructions. 

  • Set-up and maintain production consistency, reviewing weld quality, proper fitting and weld techniques. 

  • Maintain organized, clean work area .

  • Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits. 

  • Assist with other TIG Welders when needed.

Qualifications:

  • Possess a minimum of 2 years’ experience in welding in a manufacturing environment or equivalent training/education.
  • Has 2 years or more experience with welding Aluminum Sheet Metal.  
  • Must have considerable knowledge of principles and practices of TIG Welding, effective oral, and written communication skills.

Express Office: Dallas (West)
2727 West Mockingbird Lane
Suite 104
Dallas, TX 75235
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