Precision Welder - Fabrication & Blueprint Expert

Viper International Drilling and Well Service Inc; West Lafayette (IN); On-site; USD 30,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Viper International Drilling and Well Service Inc in Indiana is seeking a skilled welder to cut, join, and weld metals and other materials. You will operate equipment to weld components, fill holes, and seal seams in fabricated metal products.

You will read blueprints, work in flat, vertical, or overhead positions, and use a range of welding processes. The job requires 2+ years of welding experience and strong time-management skills, with attention to safety and quality inspections.

Qualifications

• Understand and interpret blueprints.
• 2+ years of past welding experience.
• Ability to utilize time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Operates safety equipment and uses safe work habits while performing job function
• Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions
• Ignites torches or starts power supplies and strikes arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits
• Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies supervisors
• Clamps, holds, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding
• Operates welding equipment to fuse metal using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, and shielded metal arc and resistance welding
• Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts of warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of materials
• Examines work pieces for defects and measures work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications
• Recognizes, set up, and operates hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment
• Responsible for lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers
• Perform routine quality inspections per procedure
• Perform other relevant duties as assigned

Skills

Blueprint reading

Welding experience

Time management

Job description

Viper International Drilling and Well Service Inc in Indiana is seeking a skilled welder to cut, join, and weld metals and other materials. You will operate equipment to weld components, fill holes, and seal seams in fabricated metal products.

You will read blueprints, work in flat, vertical, or overhead positions, and use a range of welding processes. The job requires 2+ years of welding experience and strong time-management skills, with attention to safety and quality inspections.