About this role
Education: No degree, certificate or diploma. Work site environment: Dusty. Hot. Noisy. Work setting: Industrial. Marine.
Tasks
- Interpret welding process specifications.
- Operate manual or semi-automatic, fully automated welding equipment.
- 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.
- Computer-aided design (CAD).
- 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 welding machines to fabricate or repair metal parts and products.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : Technical Standards Safety Authority (TSSA) Certification.
- Welder Trade Red Seal Certificate.
- Type of materials: Aluminum alloys.
- Steel, iron and heavy metals.
- Welding techniques: Oxy-acetylene welding (OAW).
- Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW).
- Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) (TIG).
- Gas metal arc welding (GMAW).
- Flux core arc welding (FCAW).
- Plasma arc welding (PAW).
- Equipment and machinery experience: Arc welding machine.
- Butt or seam resistance welding machine.
- Gas welding machine.
- Spot welding machine.
- Security and safety: Criminal record check.
- Transportation/travel information: Own transportation.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Repetitive tasks.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Physically demanding.
- Manual dexterity.
- Attention to detail.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Weight handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
- Own tools/equipment: Steel-toed safety boots.
- Safety glasses/goggles.
- Gloves.
- Face shield.
- Screening questions: Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
- Do you have the required certifications listed in the job posting?.
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years.
- Employment terms options: Day.