Flux core Welders

Kaizen Lab Inc.; Louisiana (MO); On-site; USD 42,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluxcore Welding is seeking skilled welders to join a hands-on fabrication team. The role involves welding in flat, vertical, or overhead positions, laying out and securing parts, and inspecting weld quality.

Candidates should be proficient with hand and power tools, and able to interpret drawings and specifications. Applicants must follow safety procedures, prepare surfaces, and set up equipment for various welding methods.

Qualifications

• Proficient in welding in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, and specs.
• Knowledge of metallurgy and welding technique to determine methods and materials.
• Adherence to safety protocols and proper use of PPE.
• Experience with hand and power tools used in welding and fabrication.

Responsibilities

• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Layout, position, align, and secure parts before welding.
• Inspect workpieces for defects and ensure conformance with specs.
• Prepare surfaces and preheat as required for welding.
• Operate torches, adjust gas flow, and select electrodes per chart.

Skills

Welding Skills

Blueprint Reading

Metallurgy Knowledge

Safety Compliance

Hand Tools Proficiency

Tools

SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding)

GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding)

Torches

Calipers

Grinders

Job description

Fluxcore Welding

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


• 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


• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.


• 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.


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


• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.

• Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.


• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.


• Preheat workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.


• Position and secure workpieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.


• Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.


• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.


• Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.


• Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.


• Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches, straightening presses, and hand tools.


• Operate metal shaping, straightening, and bending machines, such as brakes and shears.


• Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.


• Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.


• Gouge metals