Skills:

• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.

• Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.

• Basic Steel Welding

• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.

• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.

• Prepare all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.

• Grind, cut, buff, or bend edges of workpieces to be joined to ensure snug fit, using power grinders and hand tools.

• Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter, using hand scrapers or power chippers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.

• Clean or degrease parts, using wire brushes, portable grinders, or chemical baths.

• Hammer out bulges or bends in metal workpieces.

• Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.

• Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.