Use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Daily Tasks / Routine Activities

1. Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions. 

2. Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.

3. Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.

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

5. Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade, such as shielded metal arc and gas metal arc welding equipment.

6. Weld separately or in combination, using aluminum, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.

7. Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.

8. Select and install torches, torch tips, filler rods, and flux, according to welding chart specifications or types and thicknesses of metals.

9. Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.

10. Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained. 

Key knowledge areas

1. Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

2. Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

3. Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

4. Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

5. Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

6. Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

7. English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

8. Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

Skills

1. Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

2. Operation and Control — Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

3. Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

4. Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.