Shop/Welding Maintenance

Summary                                

Uses hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products. Ensures work areas are clean and free of clutter.                    

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Operating safety equipment and using safe work habits

Welding components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions

Igniting torches or starting power supplies and striking arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits

Clamping, holding, tack-welding, heat-bending, grinding, or bolting component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding

Detecting faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifying supervisors

Operating 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

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

Examining work pieces for defects and measuring work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications

Recognizing, setting up, and operating hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment

Laying out, positioning, aligning, and securing parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers

Removing debris, including spills, from work areas

Removing hazardous materials

Completing assigned tasks in a safe manner and in a constant state of alertness

Knowing safety rules to ensure that all safety guidelines are being followed as far as the state of work areas

Monitoring the condition and maintenance of work areas to ensure adequate work conditions

Other duties may be assigned.

Job Requirements:

• Move machine control to adjust machine
• Cover both machine maintenance troubleshooting and repair issues
• Perform preventative maintenance on machines and equipment
• Set up and operate machine tools to repair or fabricate machine parts
• Assemble parts to make or repair machine tools
• Repair or move machines, machine parts, or equipment
• Do maintenance on manufacturing machines
• Perform preventive maintenance on machines
• Perform preventable maintenance on machines and equipment
• Fabricate repair parts by using machine shop instrumentation and equipment
• Perform scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service
• Ordering parts for all machines
• Perform all preventative building, equipment and machine maintenance
• Maintain machines; perform repairs
• Improve production machinery using tools and techniques at machine repair’s disposal
• Maintain stock of repair parts for repair facility
• Perform scheduled maintenance on the machines
• Send the machine to a machine shop for major repairs
• Perform regular preventive maintenance on machines
• Perform routine maintenance tasks on machines