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Welder-fitter

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  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 40 hours per week
  • Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
  • Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years

Work site environment

  • At heights
  • Cold/refrigerated
  • Confined spaces
  • Dusty
  • Hot
  • Noisy
  • Odours

Work setting

  • Meat processing and/or packing plant/establishment
  • Food processing plant

Tasks

  • Interpret welding process specifications
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic, fully automated welding equipment
  • Read and interpret welding blueprints, drawings specifications, manuals and processes
  • Examine welds and ensure that they meet standards and/or specifications
  • Operate manual or semi-automatic flame-cutting equipment
  • Operate brakes, shears and other metal shaping, straightening and bending machines
  • Operate oxygen arc cutting equipment (arc-air), (AOC)
  • Determine weldability of materials
  • Operate previously set-up welding machines to fabricate or repair metal parts and products
  • Maintain and perform minor repairs on welding, brazing and soldering equipment
  • Fabricate parts required during overhaul, maintenance or set-up
  • Apply mathematical techniques to the solution of problems in scientific fields or other fields
  • Operate machining tools to fabricate parts

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Technical Standards Safety Authority (TSSA) Certification
  • Fall Arrest Protection Training Course

Security and safety

  • Bondable
  • Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Standing for extended periods

Weight handling

  • Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Own tools/equipment

  • Steel-toed safety boots
  • Welding helmet

Personal suitability

  • Flexibility
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Hardworking
  • Resourcefulness

Other

  • Use of artificial intelligence

Employment terms options

  • Shift

Employment terms options

  • Day
  • Weekend

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Group insurance benefits
  • Pension plan

Other benefits

  • Parking available