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Company Profile

Hastings Irrigation manufactures, designs, and distributes light metal products for industries like agricultural, construction, architectural, energy/oil, electronic communication, marine/boating, and meteorological systems,

Hastings Irrigation Pipe Company is a member of The Irrigation Association.

Job Profile

The company needs a welder who can weld metal components together with a variety of arc and gas welding equipment to fabricate or repair products as specified by layout, welding diagram, or blueprint.

Bolts, clamps, and tack-welds parts to secure in position for welding.

Note: This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Educational Qualification

• The prospective candidates should have passed a High School Diploma, General Education Degree (GED), or Post-Secondary Education from a welding school, college, or tech center.

Work Experience

• The candidates should have at least one year of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Adapts to changes in the work environment; ability to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals.
• Conserves organizational resources.
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; looks for ways to improve and promote quality; monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Ensures attendance and punctuality by being at work on time and ensures responsibilities are covered when absent.
• Follows all policies and procedures as established by the company.
• Follows the direction and instruction of the management team.
• Listens and gets clarification; expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; able to read and interpret written information.
• Meets productivity standards.
• Observes safety and security procedures; reports potentially unsafe conditions and uses equipment and materials properly.
• Offers assistance and support to co-workers.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to apply concepts of basic geometry.
• Ability to calculate figures, proportions, area, circumference, and read a tape measure and protractor.
• Ability to complete required paperwork.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, blueprints, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos,
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to use hands to perform various job duties; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Frequently required to stand and sit.
• Occasionally required to walk; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must lift and/or move up to 10 pounds regularly, up to 25 pounds frequently, and up to 50 pounds occasionally.
• Specific vision abilities include close and distance visions, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, and vibration.
• The noise level is usually loud.

Employer’s Statement

Hastings Irrigation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.