MIG and Fluxcore Welders

Kaizen Lab Inc.; Abita Springs (LA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaizen Lab Inc. in Abita Springs, LA is seeking an experienced welder for Fluxcore and MIG structural welding. You will weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions, lay out and align parts, and prepare surfaces according to blueprints.

Responsibilities include setting up torches and welding equipment, selecting filler materials, inspecting welds, and finishing or grinding as needed. You will read engineering drawings, follow safety procedures, and maintain clean, level work areas.

Qualifications

• Experience in Fluxcore and MIG welding
• Ability to read engineering drawings or blueprints
• Accuracy in measuring and laying out parts
• Safe operation of welding equipment and PPE use

Responsibilities

• Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions using Fluxcore and MIG processes
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts before welding
• Inspect welds and measure workpieces to ensure conformance with specifications
• Prepare surfaces and finish welds, including grinding or chipping as needed
• Read drawings, select materials, and set up torches, filler rods, and flux

Job description

Fluxcore and MIG Structural 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.