WELDER

You will use acetylene, heli-arc and electric welding torches, performing tube, cluster, butt lapped and flange welding on all types of metal including aluminum, steel, copper, brass, and cast iron. You will lay out work from blueprints, sketches, work orders or oral instructions and study future projects to determine the exact size and type of material to be used; selecting the proper type of welding process to be utilized. You will weld in vertical, horizontal, flat and overhead positions. After welding is finished, you will remove slag from line of weld and smooth welds with grinding wheels or hammers. You will operate various types of alternating and direct current electric arc welding equipment, portable, automatic and semi-automatic, with carbon and metallic electrodes and including particularly inert gas shielded and flux shielded methods. You will operate gas cutting hand torch or portable electric arc cutting machine to trim parts before welding to insure proper alignment or f