Greater Cayce-West Columbia Job Board Title:
Welder Fabricator (955)

Post Date
8/7/2017

Expiration Date
10/1/2017

Details:
Position Overview:
Commercial Metals Company is currently seeking a Welder Fabricator to support the Maintenance Shop. The Welder Fabricator will use hand-welding or flame-cutting equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
* Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
Weld components in flat, vertical, or overhead positions.

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

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

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

* Operate manual or semi-automatic welding equipment to fuse metal segments, using processes such as gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, flux-cored arc, plasma arc, shielded metal arc, resistance welding, and submerged arc welding.

* Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material.

* Examine work pieces for defects and measure work pieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications.

* Check grooves, angles, or gap allowances, using micrometers, calipers, and precision measuring instruments.

* 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.

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

* Signal crane operators to move large work pieces.

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

* Analyze engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.

* Connect and turn regulator valves to activate and adjust gas flow and pressure so that desired flames are obtained.
Weld separately or in combination, stainless steel, cast iron, and other alloys.

* Determine required equipment and welding methods, applying knowledge of metallurgy, geometry, and welding techniques.

* 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.

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

* Remove rough spots from work pieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.

* Gouge metals, using the air-arc gouging process.

* Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across work pieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.

* Estimate materials needed for production and manufacturing and maintain required stocks of materials.

* Position and secure work pieces, using hoists, cranes, wire, and banding machines or hand tools.

* Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.

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

* Repair products by dismantling, straightening, reshaping, and reassembling parts, using cutting torches and hand tools.

* Fill holes, and increase the size of metal parts.

* Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws,
Preheat work pieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.

* Use fire suppression methods in industrial emergencies.

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

* Join parts such as beams and steel reinforcing rods in buildings, bridges, and highways, bolting and riveting as necessary.

* Hammer out bulges or bends in metal work pieces.

* Mix and apply protective coatings to products.

* Dismantle metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.

Qualifications:
Experience and Skill Requirements:
* Four years recent successful experience welding and fabricating metal components

* Ability to read blueprints, schematics, and O/M manuals

* Ability to train and demonstrate proper safe use and operation of equipment to staff

* Ability to estimate time and materials

* Knowledge of methods, tools, and equipment associated with HVAC trade

* Welding Certification: SMAW - D1.1 or API 1104 preferred

Education Requirements:
High School Diploma or GED
Graduation from recognized trade school or completion of equivalent training or experience

Comments:
Commercial Metals Company (CMC) is a Fortune 500 enterprise whose vertical integration model revolutionized the way the steel industry operates today. We are a global metals recycling, manufacturing, fabricating, and trading steel company. Originating in 1915 with a single recycling location, we have progressively moved into higher value downstream segments of the steel value chain. With corporate headquarters in Irving, Texas, today we operate in four primary business segments (Recycling, Mills, Fabrication and Distribution) at over 200 locations and in more than 20 countries.

People are the key to our success. We are a global company committed to delivering industry-leading customer service, providing an environment where our employees can succeed, improving our communities and creating value for our investors.

CMC is committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, citizenship, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, or other status protected by federal, state or local law.

Employer:
Commercial Metals Company (CMC)

Address:
310 New State Rd.

Work Phone:
803-936-3700

Website:
http://stage.cmc.com/careers/Welder-Fabricator-955.aspx

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