Structural Welder

Job Highlights

Company Profile

Zachry Group provides engineering, construction, maintenance, turnaround, and fabrication services to the energy, chemicals, power, manufacturing, and industrial sectors.

Job Profile

The company is searching for a Structural Welder who will weld, fabricate, and assist a pipefitter in the installation of varying types of industrial pipe.

Education Level

• 2-year Technical School Training (must)

Work Experience

• Must have 4+ years of on-the-job experience
• Must be able to stick and tig weld on pipe
• Must have the ability to weld in 2g, 4g, and 6g conditions
• Demonstrated industrial maintenance history experience
• Knowledge and experience with hand tools and power tools

License/Certification

• Must have current applicable welding certification with Zachry or be able to successfully pass a weld test
• Have current or pass Zachry weld certification (restricted)
• GTAW and SMAW processes
• IGMA – 11 – AA procedure
• Must be able to weld 2” sch 160 and 4” sch 40
• Testing material – carbon steel

Duties/Responsibilities

• Access to the job site requires meeting the pre-set criteria of a criminal background check
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind, or bolt parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding
• Detect faulty operation or equipment, or defective materials and notify supervisors
• Examine and recognize defects
• Ignite torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies before assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers
• Monitor the fitting, burning, and welding processes to avoid overheating of parts or warping, shrinking, distortion, or expansion of material
• Recognize, set up, and operate hand and power tools common to the welding trade

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to work with others – team player
• Commitment to Zachry values and safety rules, and regulations
• Good communication skills with co-workers and supervisors
• Good reading comprehension
• Must have good aptitude and manual dexterity
• Must understand how to read and interpret technical manuals to determine work procedures

Work Environment

• It may rain occasionally.
• The site contains light to heavy equipment vehicles, small to large equipment, materials, communication equipment, and tools.
• Noise levels will be moderate to high.
• Will work at different elevations.
• Work in all weather conditions, ranging from warm/hot – cool/cold.

Credible Qualifications

• Experience in a coal power plant
• Former Zachry employee
• Training in vocational schools or related on-the-job experience

Physical Demands

• May be required to lift, carry, and move objects safely.
• Occasionally work at heights, climb ladders and stairways and work off platforms.
• Required to adhere to large amounts of standing, walking, bending, squatting, and lifting.
• Required to wear personal protective equipment (PPE), including but not limited to hard hat, safety glasses/goggles, ear plugs/muffs, masks/respirators, safety vests, gloves, and steel-toe boots.
• Use arms and hands to signal, grab, hold, turn, push, and pull: objects, materials, controls, and tools.
• Use vision abilities to focus, see short and long distances, colors, depth perception, and peripheral vision.

Employer’s Statement

Zachry is an Equal Opportunity Employer.