Combination Welder - Austin Industrial (Houston, TX)

Austin Industries, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 30,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Austin Industrial in Houston seeks a Welder - Combination to join our metalwork team. You will weld and tack weld parts per layouts and procedures, join pipes, preheat pieces, and assist with assembly.

The role requires 4 years of journeyman welding experience, a Weld Test, a valid Driver's License, and a TWIC Card. You must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualifications

• 4 years journeyman-level welding experience.
• Weld Test, a Valid Driver's License, and a TWIC Card are required.
• Must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Weld or tack weld pieces with spot, electric, or gas welding methods.
• Unite pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas; manage valves.
• Preheat work pieces and prepare for welding or curving.
• Check work pieces for specifications using straightedge or templates.
• Assist with crane signaling and material handling for welding jobs.
• Operate cutting equipment to dismount or scrap metal as needed.
• Follow safety procedures and wear appropriate PPE during welding.

Skills

Journeyman welding

Welding safety

Reading blueprints

Education

No minimum education requirements

Tools

Welding equipment

Torch

Plasma cutting

Job description

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service 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. To learn more about us, visit https://www.austin-ind.com/what-we-do/industrial.

Welder - Combination

This person must be able to join metal parts, such as pipe or metal plates as specified by layout, 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 spot welding gun or hand, electric, or gas welding equipment to weld or tack weld pieces together.
• Unites pipes from torch to tanks of oxygen and fuel gas and turns valves to release mixture.
• Reaching expected temperature, size, and color of flame by burning torch and adjusting flow of gas and air.
• Preheats work pieces for the preparation of welding or curving, using torch.
• Fills holes or corrects mistakes in lead pieces and makes bulges thin and curves in metal work pieces.
• Checks the weakness of work pieces and measures work pieces with straightedge or template to ensure the piece meets specifications.
• Climbs up ladders or works on scaffolds to take apart textures.
• Gives signal to crane operator to lift large work pieces.
• Uses thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torch or plasma-arc equipment to dismount metal assemblies or cut scrap metal.
• Uses hoist, crane, wire and banding machine, or hand tools to place and protect work pieces.
• In order to protect the torch chooses place of weld based on type, thickness, area, and expected temperature of metal.
• Instructs and brings flame or electrodes on or across work piece to straighten, curve, dissolve, or develop metal.
• Joins pieces together, covers up taut points, and adds metal to develop parts.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin Industrial is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds and may frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Qualifications Required For This Position

Education: – no minimum education requirements.

Experience: – 4 years of Journeyman-level experience.

Certifications/ Licenses: A Weld Test, a Valid Driver's License, and a TWIC Card.

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).

Any unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to this Company or any of its employee-owners becomes the property of the Company.

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