Welder

Peak Utility Services Group; Kentucky; On-site; USD 37,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Peak Utility Infrastructure is seeking a Welder to join our garage team, supporting field operations with welding tasks across various positions. The role requires reading specs, handling welding equipment, and maintaining safe work practices on site.

The successful candidate will be able to lift heavy loads, pass background checks, and contribute to a team focused on safety and quality in utility infrastructure projects.

Qualifications

• Welding in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Ability to lift up to 80 lbs repeatedly.
• Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
• Ability to read and interpret drawings and specs.

Responsibilities

• Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Operates welding equipment and related tools safely.
• Maintains a clean and safe work area around heavy machinery.
• Prepares surfaces and aligns parts prior to welding.
• Interprets engineering drawings and specifications to plan welding operations.

Job description

Peak Utility Infrastructure is an integrated engineering and construction company that serves the Electric, Natural Gas, and Telecommunications industries. We provide a full suite of engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance services, including repair, replacement, maintenance, and installation of natural gas, telecommunications, and electric infrastructure through our operating subsidiaries: 5 Star Electric, SiteWise, Kelly Cable, Riley Brothers, and Superior Pipeline Services.

Our Core Values: Guided by Safety. Focused on Communities. Powered by Care.

Classification: Non-Exempt

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The Welder is responsible for welding in the garage. This position is responsible for understanding, supporting, and assisting the operational teams assigned with client specific tasks, standards, specifications, and thorough understanding of all department operating policies and procedures.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Welds components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions
• Works with specialized equipment including welding and other necessary tools
• Works safely around backhoes, excavators, trenchers, and dump trucks
• Cleans and prepares construction sites to eliminate possible hazards
• Lays out, positions, aligns, and secures parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers
• Examines workpieces for defects and measures work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications
• Clamps, holds, tack-welds, heat-bends, grinds, or bolts component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding
• Selects and installs torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals
• Determines required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques
• Monitors the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material
• Analyzes engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations
• Marks or tags material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required
• Prepares all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter
• Preheats work pieces using torches to then guide and directs flames or electrodes on or across work pieces to connect pipe
• Detects faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notifies supervisors
• Cleans or degreases parts, using wire brushes, and portable grinders

Success Factors:

• Ability to perform heavy manual labor for extended periods, often under adverse climatic conditions.
• Ability to lift up to 80 lbs multiple times during a work shift
• Ability to climb, dig, work in tight spaces, on uneven surfaces, walking, stooping, and kneeling
• Ability to understand and follow specific oral and written instructions
• Ability to work well independently and as a part of a team with co-workers
• Ability to pass motor vehicle, criminal background check, and comply with drug-free workplace policy
• English usage sufficient to keep records, place orders, and prepare simple narrative reports
• Willingness and ability to learn additional skills

Experience and Education:

• Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus

Additional Requirements/Licenses/Certifications:

• Possession of, or ability to obtain, a valid State of Residence Driver’s License is required within two weeks of employment.
• Candidates must pass criminal and Motor Vehicle Record (MVR)background checks and pass a pre-employment drug screen .

Notes:

the statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.

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