Welder/Repairperson

Welder/Repairperson Job Highlights

Company Profile

CalPortland is a major building materials and construction solutions provider. It includes solutions to the greatest construction challenges with expertise in cement production and distribution, ready mixed concrete, aggregate, asphalt, construction services, and other building materials.

Job Profile

The company is hiring a Welder/Repairperson who will be responsible for using proper tools and equipment to perform tack and finish welds on fabricated steel components or metal parts as specified by blueprints and by using proper welding fixtures and methods – all this while exhibiting and championing safe work and environmental compliance practices for the incumbent as well as co-workers.

Educational Qualification

• Applicants should have a High School Diploma or GED
• Preferably Trade School or College courses in related subjects and skills

Work Experience

• Possess 3 to 5 years of related experience

Duties/Responsibilities

• Check your own work for proper dimensions, contour alignment, fit, proper functioning, quality, safety, and conformance to specifications.
• Diagnose failures, malfunctions, and other breakdowns of machinery, equipment, systems, and structures; modify, rebuild, or repair by fabricating, fitting, adjusting, installing, constructing, disassembling, reassembling, and welding.
• Exhibits and maintains safe work and environmental compliance practices.
• Fabricate frames, structures, and component parts from sheet metal, flat or rolled stock, etc.; perform any type of welding, brazing, and cutting after preparation of surfaces and materials.
• Perform fabrication, construction, erection, installation, maintenance, repair, modification, and re-work of machinery, equipment (non-automotive), and structures per blueprints, sketches, and verbal instructions.
• Perform layout from blueprints, welding manuals, and sketches.
• Perform layout involving straight line, horizontal, parallel, and angular surfaces and constant radius circular flat surfaces from blueprints, welding manuals, and sketches per established shop practice and procedure and from verbal instructions.
• Pick up of parts from the storeroom, as required.
• Returns tools, equipment, surplus parts, and materials to designated areas once the job is completed, keeping areas clean, orderly, and safe. Replaces or constructs serviceable guards.
• Set up and use rigging and cribbing as required.
• Performs duties of Dust Collector and Luber.
• Performs clean-up duties in all areas of the facility.
• Performs other duties as requested.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to read blueprints.
• Ability to read, write, and verbally communicate in the English language
• Ability to see and hear safety indicators and warnings.
• Ability to sit, stand, stoop, and bend for extended periods of time, as well as walk on all types of surfaces (uneven or slippery ground), and physically climb on equipment; must be able to walk long distances, climb ladders, stairs, and stockpiles, stoop and crawl under and into enclosed spaces.
• Ability to work in all weather conditions: heat, cold, wet, dry, or dusty conditions and near hot kiln process.
• Ability to work in surroundings that include heat, dust, vibration, heights, and confined spaces.
• Exposure to cement, clay, limestone, and various chemicals.
• Familiarity with computers.
• Knowledge of hazards associated with areas of responsibility.
• Must be able to lift and carry heavy items up to 70 pounds, using proper lifting techniques or equipment.
• Must be able to use proper Personal Protective Equipment as required.
• Will have exposure to all levels of noise that require the use of hearing protection.

Preferred Skills-

• Preferred knowledge of all types of equipment used in the manufacturing of cement.

Employment Conditions

• Candidates must submit to a post-offer pre-employment physical examination, drug/alcohol screen, and background check.

Benefits/Perks

• All regular full-time employees may enroll in a variety of health and welfare plans including medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Other benefits include life insurance, disability coverage, an employee assistance program, and a retirement program.
• The company also has a variety of voluntary benefits for employees to choose from.

Employer’s Statement

CalPortland is an Equal Opportunity Employer.