Welder, Night Shift - 20% Shift Premium
E.K. Machine, Fall River, WI, United States
Duration: Full Time
Summary:
EK is looking for a full-time welder ready to work hard and build their welding experience with our team. We're in need of a new welding team member that can weld on a wide variety of metals and alloys, navigate blueprints and directions successfully, and who is ready to take their skills to the next level.
What you'll be responsible for:
- Successfully reading and understanding American and European blueprints, geometrical call outs, and weld symbols to meet or exceed client expectations
- Using GMAW-P, GMAW-S, and GTAW to effectively weld weldments, tanks, and metal parts together per the weld process specification sheet
- Performing welding on a wide variety of metals and alloys, including carbon steel, galvanized steel, stainless steel, and aluminum
- Hand layouts of weldments with little to no supervision or assistance
- Using fixtures, gauges, and jigs to manufacture welded parts to customer specifications
- Assisting with creating work instructions
- Completing first piece, in process, and final inspections using calipers, height gauges, protractors, and tape measures
- Pressure testing fuel tanks and hydro testing glycol tanks
- Traveling between plants and adapting to the product mix requirements at each facility
- Analyzing weld processes and recommending process improvements
What we expect out of our welding team:
- Customer Focused Workflow - identifying customer expectations, seeing issues from their point of view, and offering practical solutions
- Innovation - Generating new ideas and approaches to improve our welding processes and products
- Priority Setting - Determining the interrelationships and relative importance of tasks and taking action accordingly
- Problem Solving - Gathering and analyzing information, exploring and identifying solutions, and evaluating results
- Results Oriented - Taking on new challenges with action-orientated drive
- Technical Skills - Demonstrating the knowledge and abilities necessary to perform the essential job duties and responsibilities to our established standards while remaining current with developments and trends in welding
- Time Management - Completing all work in a timely manner
Education & Experience - You have a high school diploma or GED, plus 1 to 3 years of GMAW-P, GMAW-S, and GTAW experience, preferably in a job shop, ability to read and interpret American and European blueprints, geometrical call outs, and weld symbols, and pressure or hydro test tanks; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and may occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places and outside weather conditions.
The noise level in the work environment is regularly moderate.