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Welder-fitter

  • Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
  • Langue de travail: Anglais
  • Heures de travail: 30 to 40 hours per week
  • Education:
  • Expérience:

Education

  • Other trades certificate or diploma
  • or equivalent experience

Work setting

  • Industrial
  • Manufacture

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
  • Fit, braze and torch-straighten metal
  • Operate oxygen arc cutting equipment (arc-air), (AOC)
  • Operate previously set-up welding machines to fabricate or repair metal parts and products
  • Operate previously set-up brazing or soldering machines to bond metal or to fill holes, indentations and seams of metal
  • Maintain and perform minor repairs on welding, brazing and soldering equipment

Type of materials

  • Aluminum alloys
  • Stainless steel
  • Steel, iron and heavy metals

Welding techniques

  • Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW)
  • Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) (TIG)
  • Gas metal arc welding (GMAW)
  • Flux core arc welding (FCAW)

Area of specialization

  • Custom fabrication
  • Pressure vessels

Security and safety

  • Basic security clearance

Transportation/travel information

  • Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

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

Own tools/equipment

  • Steel-toed safety boots

Personal suitability

  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Flexibility
  • Organized
  • Team player
  • Punctuality
  • Hardworking

Screening questions

  • Are you currently a student?
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Do you live near the job location?

Employment terms options

  • Early morning

Experience

  • 7 months to less than 1 year

Employment terms options

  • Evening
  • Shift
  • Morning
  • Night
  • Day
  • Weekend
  • Overtime required
  • Overtime available

Health benefits

  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan