Welder - Casting Repair - 1st & 2nd Shift

Harrison Steel Castings Co.; Attica (IN); On-site; USD 25,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retention bonus

Job summary

Harrison Steel Casting Company in Attica, Indiana, seeks a skilled Welder to eliminate defects in steel castings using gouging, welding, burning, and carbon arc washing. The role requires precision and the ability to shape features with carbon arc and a hand grinder.

Ideal candidates bring welding experience with carbon arc equipment, manufacturing background, and strong attention to process and detail. This position includes a $300 retention bonus after 6 months.”

Qualifications

• Experience welding and repairing cast steel components.
• Familiarity with carbon arc gouging and flux-core welding.
• Proven ability to work in a manufacturing setting with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Eliminates defects using gouging, welding, burning, and carbon arc washing.
• Shapes casting features using carbon arc and hand grinder.
• Repairs defects marked by Line Inspector and ensures traceability.

Skills

Welding experience

Carbon arc equipment

Manufacturing environment

Attention to detail

Tools

Flux core welding machine

Carbon arc gouging equipment

Hand grinder

Job description

Harrison Steel Casting Company is a family owned company located in Attica, Indiana, where it was founded in 1906 by J.W. Harrison, as the National Car Coupler Company. HS is the largest privately owned foundry in the United States and a Global leader in the production of highly engineered carbon and low/medium alloy steel castings of 350 to 12,500 pounds net casting weight. We produce castings for some of the world's most prestigious names in the agriculture, heavy equipment, energy, military, mining, oil and gas industries.

This position is currently eligible for a $300 retention bonus for new hires after 6 months of employment!

Scope Of Position

Eliminates all defects using gouging, welding, burning, and carbon arc washing and shape steel castings. This critical position allows us to meet our company's driving principle of Satisfying Our Customer.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Excavates out inclusions using a carbon arc
• Welds using flux core wire to blend weld metal into the cast steel
• Shapes critical casting features using a carbon arc and hand grinder
• Marks casting with welder symbol for traceability.
• Repairs fully all defects marked by the Line Inspector using gouging, welding, burning, and carbon arc washing.
• Removes excess material on the steel castings through precision burning and carbon arc washing.

Ideal Casting Repair Welders Have

• Experience with welding and carbon arc equipment
• Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Strong attention to detail and process

Work Environment

• 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.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and vibration. The employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts; extreme cold and extreme heat. The employee is occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places; outdoor weather conditions. The employee may be exposed to risk of electrical shock and risk of radiation. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer - Harrison Steel does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other protected class.

Salary: $18.15 - $30.26 per hour