Welding Technician

Job Highlights

Company Profile

Leggett & Platt designs and manufactures innovative, distinctive products and components for bedding, furniture, seating, homes, offices, airplanes, and automobiles.

Job Profile

The company is hiring a Welding Technician who will perform orbital welding of tubing and components with a particular expertise in orbital welding operations.

Education Level

• Not mentioned, a High School Diploma (a plus)

Work Experience

• 2+ years of welding experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably with progressive welding certifications.
• Experience with measuring tools, i.e., calipers, micrometers, and height gages.

License/Certification

• Progressive welding certification

Duties/Responsibilities

• Correctly process work via required paperwork and the MRP system.
• Examine workpieces for defects and measure workpieces with straightedges or templates to ensure conformance with specifications. Inspect product and, if non-conforming, process via non-conforming material procedures.
• Follows manufacturing production schedules.
• Loads and adjusts machinery programs as required.
• Manufacture a product that meets quality requirements.
• Meet time and schedule standards for assigned work
• Prepares and processes parts in semi-automated orbital weld machinery.
• 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.
• Troubleshoots process variation.
• Utilizes manufacturing routers through the MRP system.
• Verifies correct assembly in manufacturing tooling before and after processing.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to read/interpret blueprints.
• General understanding of welding processes.

Work Environment

• Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, and vibration.
• Frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; or smell.
• Occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Employer’s Statement

Leggett & Platt is an Equal Opportunity Employer.