- Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
Work setting
Tasks
- Interpret welding process specifications
- Read and interpret welding blueprints, drawings specifications, manuals and processes
- Operate manual or semi-automatic flame-cutting equipment
- Operate brakes, shears and other metal shaping, straightening and bending machines
- Fit, braze and torch-straighten metal
- Operate oxygen arc cutting equipment (arc-air), (AOC)
- Operate hoisting and lifting equipment
- Operate previously set-up brazing or soldering machines to bond metal or to fill holes, indentations and seams of metal
Type of materials
- Aluminum alloys
- Stainless steel
- Steel, iron and heavy metals
Welding techniques
- Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) (TIG)
- Flux core arc welding (FCAW)
Equipment and machinery experience
- Arc welding machine
- Gas welding machine
- Soldering machine
Area of specialization
- Custom fabrication
- Machinery or equipment repair
- Factory assembly
- Cast iron and other metals
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
Weight handling
Own tools/equipment
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Welding helmet
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: French
- Hours: 40 hours per week
