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Welder
- 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
- Welding technology/welder
- or equivalent experience
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- At heights
- Confined spaces
- Dusty
- Hot
- Noisy
- Odours
- Dirty
Work setting
- Various locations
- Residential
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
- Fit, braze and torch-straighten metal
- Operate oxygen arc cutting equipment (arc-air), (AOC)
- Determine weldability of materials
- Operate hoisting and lifting equipment
- 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
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
- Welder Trade Red Seal Certificate
Type of materials
- Stainless steel
- Steel, iron and heavy metals
Welding techniques
- Resistance, spot or seam
- Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW)
- Gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) (TIG)
- Gas metal arc welding (GMAW)
- Flux core arc welding (FCAW)
- Tubular
- Spool
- Keyhole
- Welding plastic
- Brazing and soldering
Equipment and machinery experience
- Arc welding machine
- Brazing machine
- Gas welding machine
- Soldering machine
- Spot welding machine
Area of specialization
- Custom fabrication
- Machinery or equipment repair
- Structural construction
- Factory assembly
- Cast iron and other metals
- Fencing, balconies, stairs and railings
- Process piping
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Repetitive tasks
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Sitting
- Standing for extended periods
Weight handling
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Tools
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Safety harness
- Gloves
- Mask
- Face shield
- Welding helmet
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Flexibility
- Organized
- Team player
- Punctuality
- Hardworking
- Resourcefulness
Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Shift
- Flexible hours
- Morning
Experience
- 5 years or more
Employment terms options
- Night
- Day
- Weekend
Workplace information
- On the road job
Other benefits
- Free parking available