Welder and Fabricator - 1st, 2nd, 3rd Shift

R-TECH SAS; Wamego (KS); On-site; USD 24,796 - 38,572; Full time

Job summary

R-TECH SAS is seeking a Welder in Kansas to join our fabrication team. You will apply welding processes to join, surface, fabricate or repair metal parts per drawings, blueprints, and work orders under supervision.

The role requires interpreting engineering drawings, preparing surfaces, and welding in flat, vertical, or overhead positions. You will lift up to 50 pounds, follow safety policies, and may perform additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Experience in welding and fabrication according to drawings and specs.
• Ability to read blueprints and work orders to plan layout and welding operations.

Responsibilities

• Follow safety rules and company policies.
• Lift up to 50 pounds frequently.
• Analyze drawings, blueprints, specs, and MSDS to plan welding operations.
• Weld steel components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.
• Prepare surfaces and ensure cleanliness before welding.
• Mark materials with job numbers and identifiers.
• May perform other duties as assigned by management.

Skills

Welding

Blueprint reading

Safe operation

Tools

SMAW

GMAW

Job description

Summary

Under Supervision, Welder will apply appropriate welding processes to join, surface, fabricate or repair parts of metal or other weldable materials, as specified by MRP Network, work orders, blueprints, sketches, or acting supervisor.

Essential Duties And Job Responsibilities

• Performs all tasks in a safe and responsible manner and complies with company policies.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds frequently.
• Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
• Weld steel components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions, ability to ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Position pieces to be welded into jigs, holding fixtures, guides and steps using measuring instruments and hand tools.
• 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, lay-out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• May perform other duties as assigned by management.