Combination Welder (La Porte, TX) - Austin Industrial

Austin Industries; La Porte (TX); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading industrial services provider as a skilled welder, where your expertise in welding and metal fabrication will contribute to critical projects in the oil, gas, and manufacturing sectors. In this hands-on role, you will work with advanced welding equipment to join metal parts as per specifications and ensure the highest standards of safety and quality. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a passion for craftsmanship and a commitment to excellence, all while being part of a dedicated team of employee-owners who prioritize innovation and efficiency in every project. If you have the skills and experience, we want to hear from you!

Qualifications

• 5 years of Journeyman level experience in welding.
• Valid driver's license and weld test certification required.

Responsibilities

• Join metal parts using heat or electric arc-welding equipment.
• Use welding and thermal-cutting equipment to assemble and cut metal.
• Ensure work pieces meet specifications and safety standards.

Skills

Welding

Blueprint Reading

Metal Fabrication

Safety Procedures

Education

Journeyman Certification

Tools

Welding Equipment

Thermal-Cutting Equipment

Hoist and Crane

Job description

Job Category: Craft

Requisition Number: COMBI023134

Posted: January 23, 2025

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Arrangement: On-site

Locations

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Description

About Austin Industrial

Austin Industrial delivers premier maintenance, construction, and soft craft services 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. Our team of 4,000 employee-owners, equipped with innovative technology and optimized procedures, helps owners optimize safety, productivity, profit margins, and cost efficiency.

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.
• Reaches 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.

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:

Certifications/ Licenses: Weld Test and Valid Driver’s License

Experience: 5 years of Journeyman level experience.

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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 (e.g., payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

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