Welder 2
The Greenbrier Companies, Inc.
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Job summary
Qualifications
- Ability to pass weld assessments to perform welder 2 duties.
- Ability to use weld gauges and read weld drawings and procedures.
- Ability to work in a team.
- Ability to learn to operate a forklift and overhead crane and complete certifications.
- 12+ months welding experience (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Fits, aligns, and clamps parts for welding.
- Performs manual or semi-automatic arc welding on production line.
- Follow Weld Procedure Sheets at the workstation.
- Visually inspects welds and performs repairs.
- Prepares metal for welding through grinding and joint prep.
- Maintains safety and PPE standards.
- Assists in training other welders.
Skills
Education
Job description
At Greenbrier, we do the hard work that matters. The Greenbrier Companies (NYSE:GBX) is powering the movement of products around the world as a leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of freight rail transportation equipment and services.
Greenbrier’s heritage of hard work and industrial innovation is celebrated at every level of our organization. We structure our business to support teams that deliver innovative solutions for our customers while positively impacting the world around us.
Greenbrier’s success begins with people. We believe in supporting our global workforce through our unwavering attention to Safety, Quality, Respect for People and Customer Satisfaction. Our Inclusion, Diversity, Engagement, Access and Leadership (IDEAL) commitment is rooted in these values, which lead to a culture where employees are engaged and feel good about coming to work every day.
The Welder 2 position is responsible for performing quality welding of parts and fixtures in the railcar manufacturing process. This position visually inspects weld work and makes repairs performing manual and semi-automatic welding processes and assembles parts or attaches fixtures to railcars using various equipment, such as welding machines, torches, and hand tools.
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the following essential duties satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned to address business needs and changing business practices.
- Fits, aligns, and clamps work, usually in fixtures, to prepare for welding.
- Performs manual or semi-automatic arc welding of railcar parts, sub-assemblies, and assemblies on production line.
- Follows job orders including Weld Procedure Sheets while at the production line workstation.
- Visually inspects work, repairs defective welds, and performs minor repairs.
- Prepares metal for welding by grinding and/or doing joint preparations.
- Ensures that safety, personal protective equipment, and housekeeping standards are met and maintained and performs other duties as directed by Group Leader, Supervisor, and/or upper management.
- Assists in training other welders by conducting on the job training when requested.
The following generally describes requirements to successfully perform the assigned duties.
- Ability to pass applicable weld assessments to perform work as a welder 2.
- Ability to use weld gauges and computers.
- Ability to read and comprehend blueprints or weld drawings and procedures
- Ability to work in a team
- Ability to learn to operate a forklift and overhead crane and complete certifications required through company training.
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Experience using a manual or semi-automatic arc welder
- Experience operating a forklift or overhead crane
- Experience working in a a production environment
- Ability to learn to operate a forklift and overhead crane and complete certifications required through company training.
- 12+ months experience in welding
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position is in a production environment with exposure to heat, cold, noise, moving machinery and trip hazards where personal protective equipment such as head, eye, hearing, and foot protection, including composite toed safety shoes, are required.
This position may be exposed to welding, machining, forming, metal surface treatment, laser cutting, plasma cutting, and other metal working and assembly processes.
Additional PPE may be required as determined by the environment.
Frequency Key
Not Applicable: Activity is not applicable to this occupation
Occasionally: Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0- 2.5+ hours/day)
Frequently: Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5: 5.5+ hours/day)
Constantly: Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hours/day)
- Sit: Occasionally
- Stand: Constantly
- Walk: Frequently
- Bend: Frequently
- Kneel/Squat: Occasionally
- Crawl: Not Applicable
- Climb: Not Applicable
- Reach Forward: Occasionally
- Reach Upward: Occasionally
- Handling/Fingering: Constantly
- 5-10 lbs: Constantly
- 10-25 lbs: Constantly
- 25-50 lbs: Frequently
- 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable
- 75+ lbs: Not Applicable
- Less than 10 lbs: Constantly
- 10-25 lbs: Constantly
- 25-50 lbs: Frequently
- 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable
- 75+ lbs: Not Applicable
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Greenbrier makes reasonable accommodations in the application and hiring process for individuals with known disabilities, unless providing accommodation would result in an undue hardship. Any applicant believing that he or she may need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact Greenbrier Human Resources at careers@gbrx.com or call us at 503-684-7000.
Email communication from The Greenbrier Companies (Greenbrier) will always come from a corporate email address that ends in @gbrx.com or from our applicant tracking system, iCIMS, after you have created a secure account and submitted your application. During the application process, you will create a secure account in our secure applicant tracking site that ends with “-gbrx.icims.com”. In this portal, we will ask you to provide your contact information, past employment history, education history and other job-related information.
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