Welder, Cutter, or Welder Fitter
Life As a Welder, Cutter, or Welder Fitter
Position Description Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.
What Do Welders, Cutters, and Welder Fitters Do On a Daily Basis?
- Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
- Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
- Melt lead bars, wire, or scrap to add lead to joints or to extrude melted scrap into reusable form.
- Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
- Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment, such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
- Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.
Skills Needed to be a Welder, Cutter, or Welder Fitter
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Related Job Titles for this Occupation:
- Getter Welder
- Welder-Fitter
- Journeyman Pipe Welder
- Flame Burner
- Mechanic/Welder
Tools and Software Commonly Used
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- IBM Notes
- Recordkeeping software
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